Enlarge / Parler’s logo. reader comments 73 with 45 posters participating Share this story A congressional oversight committee is investigating whether Parler has financial ties to Russian entities, citing reports that the right-wing social network “allowed Russian disinformation to flourish” before the election and hosted calls for violence before a Trump-incited mob stormed the Capitol ..
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Enlarge / Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on Jan. 21, 2021. reader comments 116 with 72 posters participating, including story author Share this story With a new session of Congress underway and a new administration in the White House, Big Tech is once again in lawmakers’ crosshairs. ..
Enlarge / A stack of 60 Starlink satellites launched in 2019. reader comments 99 with 58 posters participating Share this story A new SpaceX filing outlines plans for Starlink to offer phone service, emergency backup for voice calls, and cheaper plans for people with low incomes through the government’s Lifeline program. The details are in ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 125 with 91 posters participating Share this story Officials in Germany have seized a digital wallet believed to contain $60 million in bitcoins obtained by fraudulent online activity. The original owner of the wallet was convicted of installing bitcoin mining malware on peoples’ computers without permission and has ..
Enlarge / A Pornhub logo at the company’s booth during the 2018 AVN Adult Expo on January 25, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. reader comments 75 with 51 posters participating Share this story Adult website Pornhub this week announced a slew of new security features and policies as it tries to get back in the ..
reader comments 131 with 99 posters participating, including story author Share this story A man who has been an AT&T customer since 1960 has a message for CEO John Stankey about the company’s failure to upgrade DSL areas to modern Internet service. Aaron Epstein, 90, is so frustrated by his 3Mbps Internet plan that he ..
Enlarge / Poor piggy. reader comments 64 with 50 posters participating Share this story AT&T has agreed to a $12 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over its throttling of “unlimited” mobile data plans. As usual, refunds to individual customers amount to a fraction of what the customers paid for the hobbled service. The paltry ..
reader comments 153 with 89 posters participating, including story author Share this story As Facebook scrambles to deal with its most problematic groups in the wake of January’s assault on the US Capitol, a new report finds that leaders inside the company knew as long ago as August that 70 percent of its top “civic” ..
reader comments 47 with 27 posters participating Share this story Last December, when Caleb Chung, a 12-year-old in Durham, North Carolina, first heard from his dad that he might be eligible for a local clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine, his reaction was a little muted. He was “interested,” he tells me over Zoom. Not ..
reader comments 66 with 56 posters participating Share this story In 2010, British designer Harry Brignull coined a handy new term for an everyday annoyance: dark patterns, meaning digital interfaces that subtly manipulate people. It became a term of art used by privacy campaigners and researchers. Now, more than a decade later, the coinage is ..
