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Designing & building our design toolchain – Alasdair Monk – Medium
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New method aims to quantify ‘camouflaging’ in autism | Spectrum | Autism Research News
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No, Panera Bread Doesn’t Take Security Seriously – PB – Medium
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Cloudflare: FOSTA Was a 'Very Bad Bill' That's Left the Internet's Infrastructure Hanging - Motherboard
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Google disables “domain fronting” capability used to evade censors – Ars Technica
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The New Octopus
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by K. Sabeel Rahman Technology has spawned new corporate giants. Their control of society’s digital infrastructure threatens our democracy. What should we do…
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Beyond the binary: Truly inclusive gender representation
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Jaw-dropping: My Year with the Tribe reviewed | The Spectator
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Palantir Knows Everything About You
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Georgia’s Governor Is About to Sign a Terrible Cybersecurity Bill
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Woman who hacked airline network busted through VPN logs
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A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes – TechCrunch
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I was one of the first people on Facebook. I shouldn't have trusted Mark Zuckerberg | Julie Carrie Wong
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Russia’s Telegram ban is a big, convoluted mess
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City Observatory - Housing reparations for Northeast Portland
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The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans Living Paycheck to Paycheck
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AI is an excuse for Facebook to keep messing up
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Trauma and the inclusive workplace – Danilo Campos – Medium
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Dog rescuers, flush with donations, buy animals from the breeders they scorn
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Silicon Valley’s Sixty-Year Love Affair with the Word “Tool”
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Here's how hackers are targeting Cisco Network Switches in Russia and Iran
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After Facebook hearing, senators roll out new bill restraining online data use | The Verge
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‘These People Have Abdicated Any Sort of Responsibility": Q&A With Ex-Facebooker
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Opinion: Why Building Housing Near Mass Transit Promotes Collectivism
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Whatever you do, don’t give this programmable payment card to your waiter – Ars Technica
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Responsive Ebook Design: A Primer – Sanders Kleinfeld – Medium
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Breaking Down Oregon’s New Net Neutrality Law
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On Telling Ugly Stories: Writing with a Chronic Illness
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“We Had To Stop Facebook”: When Anti-Muslim Violence Goes Viral
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Affect: Access and acceptance
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The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
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Censorship machines are coming: It’s time for the free software community to discover its political clout
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Digital Media and the Case of the Missing Archives
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Why Mark Zuckerberg’s 15-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook
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An Atmospheric River Will Hit California With a Month's Worth of Rain
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Facebook Messenger will add an ‘unsend’ feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages | The Verge
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After TechCrunch reported that Facebook has been quietly deleting messages CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sent via Messenger, the company is now saying that the…
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In Puerto Rico’s ‘last mile,’ power is still elusive as next hurricane season looms
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The Bittersweetness of Family Love – Cristina Hartmann – Medium
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Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data
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Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research…
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The Problem With Hugs
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By now we’ve all seen the viral image of a teenage black boy, tears streaming down his face, hugging a white police officer in riot gear. The image, taken from…
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“The Clock Is Ticking”: Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades
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Facebook: ‘Malicious actors’ used its tools to discover identities and collect data on a massive global scale
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Artificial Intelligence Isn't Good for Women, But We Can Fix It
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How Grubhub Analyzed 4,000 Dishes to Predict Your Next Order
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Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite 80K+ Public Comments Against It
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Google can still use Bluetooth to track your Android phone when Bluetooth is turned off – Quartz
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A Huge Caravan Of Central Americans Is Headed For The US, And No One In Mexico Is Stopping Them
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Self-driving car deaths raise the question: Is society ready for us to take our hands off the wheel?
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Outside the Limits of the Human Imagination
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In the Shadow of the Gun: #MarchForOurLives Critical Discussion - It's Going Down
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UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar
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Grindr Will Stop Sharing Users' HIV Data With Other Companies
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“Trump Is Like, ‘How Can I F--k with Him?’”: Trump’s War with Amazon (and The Washington Post) Is Personal
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PubGrub: Next-Generation Version Solving – Natalie Weizenbaum – Medium
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Grindr Is Sharing The HIV Status Of Its Users With Other Companies
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Who and What Is Coinhive? — Krebs on Security
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Android Monero-Mining Malware Can Cause Device Failure
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The shady data-gathering tactics used by Cambridge Analytica were an open secret to online marketers. I know, because I was one | The Verge
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The recently revealed Facebook data “breach” that allowed Cambridge Analytica to get access to millions of users’ worth of Facebook data has been greeted as a…
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The Crypto-Keepers | Yasha Levine
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Network self-determination: When building the Internet becomes a right
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Gangster’s paradise: how organised crime took over Russia
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Children's YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism
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Video still of a reproduced version of Minnie Mouse, which appeared on the now-suspended Simple Fun channel Simple Fun / WIRED Y ouTube videos using…
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ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Immigrants, Internal Emails Show
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Cambridge Analytica may have had access to the personal information of tens of millions of unwitting Americans, but a genuine debate has emerged about whether…
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Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones – Ars Technica
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The Big Loophole That Helped Russia Exploit Facebook: Doctored Photos
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A photo taken at a pro-immigration rally by Randi Romo, left, and the altered image as it appeared on a Russia-linked Facebook page, Secured Borders. A photo…
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Opinion: We Beat Mark Zuckerberg In Hawaii, And We Can Beat Him In Washington
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Mark Zuckerberg is now working overtime to convince the American people to trust him with their personal data. Facebook knew tens of millions of Americans had…
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Facebook’s Experiments Abroad
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I mentioned yesterday the practice of Cambridge Analytica to field test tools and strategies in the developing world which they could not in North America and…
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Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash
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National Transportation Safety Board investigators examining a self-driving Uber vehicle that was involved in a fatal accident in Tempe, Ariz., on Sunday night.…
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Our Nukes, Ourselves
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What the Facebook?! To Leave or not to Leave - Our Data Our Selves
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Concerns over personal data collection and its use for profit and political control are not new. Iconic German band Kraftwerk sang about it back in early 80s…
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