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A school custodian says she was fired after refusing to put an app on her phone that checked her location, citing privacy concerns. As more people work remotely in the pandemic, "tattleware" that tracks employees’ productivity is on the rise, prompting lawyers…

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In a country where young people who have grown up in conflict face mass unemployment and no support, drugs gangs have swept into the vacuum. From the capital to the southern city of Basra, Bel Trew finds increasing numbers of addicts – and a system that’s…

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Jeff Hawkins gets full credit for getting me first interested in the idea that neuroscience might lead to artificial general intelligence—an idea whi…

Children are afraid to challenge the repressive ideology that rules our school. That’s why I am.

A study raises questions as to why Facebook did not stop the spread of misinformation in the 2020 election run-up

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Linus says that GPL V3 is a neat licence but it violates everything that V2 stood for.

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At Vivaldi, we stand up for the privacy rights of our users. We do not approve of Google’s new FLoC technology. It creates privacy risks for users on the web.

A security researcher found a “critical” bug in Valve’s game engine that powers the popular online game. And the company has been slow to fix it.