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How MicroLED display technology, demoed by Samsung at CES, may let customers assemble their own TVs to the exact size and shape they want, like LEGO bricks — MicroLED is better looking, more efficient and more versatile than any previous display tech. Now all Samsung, Sony …
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Lime suspends its scooter service in Switzerland after reports of some of its e-scooters halting mid-ride, throwing off and injuring passengers — Just as on-demand electric scooters are trying to pick up speed in Europe, one of the scooter market's most ambitious startups has halted operations … | Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost: |
Dozens of government websites rendered insecure or inaccessible due to 80+ expired TLS certificates that haven't been renewed due to the US government shutdown — As the U.S. federal shutdown continues, dozens of U.S. government websites have been rendered either insecure or inaccessible due …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Research shows self-reported heavy Facebook users make impaired decisions, like drug addicts, on a classic test of maximizing rewards — Researchers at Michigan State University are exploring the idea that there's more to “social media addiction” than casual joking about being too online might suggest.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers: a hacking group made ~$3.7M in Bitcoin since Aug. with Ryuk ransomware, which only targets firms with huge resources and can lay dormant for a year — Ryuk lies in wait for as long as a year, then pounces on only the biggest prey. — A recently discovered ransomware group …
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Bird sends dubious DMCA takedown notice to Boing Boing over a post explaining how to legally buy an abandoned Bird scooter and convert it to a personal scooter — Every now and then we have to remind someone that it's not illegal for people to report facts that they dislike.
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Over half of the top 20 YouTube search results for “RBG” this week pointed to conspiracy-theory videos about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's health — Conspiracy theories about the health of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have dominated YouTube this week, illustrating how the world's … | Sidney Fussell / The Atlantic: |
Automation may not completely replace service workers, but will likely reduce hours, lower pay, and conceal intense demands on labor and poor working conditions — Workers may not be replaced by robots anytime soon, but they'll likely face shorter hours, lower pay, and stolen time.
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| Rita Katz / Wired: |
How ISIS is changing how it uses tech to recruit and coordinate, by moving to free public chat apps and services like RocketChat, Yahoo Together, Viber, Discord — HEADS UP, TECH companies: If your product appeals to the masses, it likely also holds allure for terrorist groups like ISIS.| Sinclair Target / Motherboard: |
A look back at the evolution of RSS and why it lost out to centralized information silos on the web controlled by corporations, despite being an open format — Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.
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| Emma Best / Gizmodo: |
An overview of internal WikiLeaks data the US government collected from 2009 through at least 2017, including chats with identifying details on some sources — Late last year, the U.S. government accidentally revealed that a sealed complaint had been filed against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Sources: social media platforms are preparing to fight sweeping new rules to remove “unlawful” content within 24 hours proposed by the Indian government — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Global social media and technology giants are gearing up to fight sweeping new rules proposed …
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