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PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, microphone, data, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

submitted by realpanzer from androidpolice.com

Salesforce Inc. tries to sabotage the "freedom friendly" social networking site Ruqqus

submitted by smart_jackal from techtudor.blogspot.com

TIL of the Invention Secrecy Act. The government has a program in place which specifically deals with inventions that are deemed to be "threats to national security" (open thread for choice quotes). There are currently 6102 inventions under lock and key, some of which "pertain to energy generation".

submitted by Orangutan from en.wikipedia.org

Stop donating to "foundations", donate directly to developers if you want to help open source

submitted by smart_jackal from techtudor.blogspot.com

The EARN IT Act Violates the Constitution | Electronic Frontier Foundation

submitted by DeWhoDeWho from eff.org

The New Federal EARN IT Act Is a Sneak Attack on Encryption - "It uses the laudable aim of fighting child exploitation to cynically launder law enforcement’s unsuccessful, decades-long effort to undermine strong end-to-end encryption."

submitted by magnora7 from wired.com

New Pine64 phones with upgraded hardware begin shipping in August

submitted by runtis from arstechnica.com

New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy

submitted by magnora7 from blog.malwarebytes.com

What's wrong with Intel: Former principal engineer unloads

submitted by Timmy from pcworld.com

March 1, 1873, Remington Company invents the QWERTY keyboard

submitted by useless_aether from files.catbox.moe

Windows10Debloater - script to remove Windows 10 bloatware

submitted by realpanzer from github.com

TIL that Mythbusters got bullied out of airing an episode on how hackable and trackable RFID chips on credit cards are, when credit card companies threatened to boycott their TV network

submitted by magnora7 from gizmodo.com

A few hours ago, for the first time in history, astronauts have entered the International Space Station from a commercially-made spacecraft

submitted by magnora7 from gfycat.com

We Don't Own Our Digital Lives & It's Time We Started Caring About It | Android Authority

submitted by DeWhoDeWho from androidauthority.com

Why does no one seem to understand the bigger picture of search algorithm manipulation. This isn't about being able to work around search blacklists to find certain information, it's about how we are being steered toward a future where we will not have control over search results at all.

submitted by Orangutan from corbettreport.com

Welcome To The Old Internet Again!

submitted by BillionDollarEgg3 from theoldnet.com

Windows 10 Ameliorated - Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and security.

submitted by realpanzer from ameliorated.info

Check Out This Sailor Holding A Laser Rifle Aboard The Nuclear Submarine USS Minnesota

submitted by magnora7 from thedrive.com

Why everyone is talking about the A.I. text generator released by an Elon Musk-backed lab

submitted by Entropick from cnbc.com

"Like A Black Mirror Episode": Company Laid Off 406 People In 2-Minute Zoom Call

submitted by magnora7 from zerohedge.com

Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver

submitted by Mnemonic from fastcompany.com

Mozilla Firefox: "All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert"

submitted by sawboss from news.ycombinator.com

KolibriOS is a tiny yet incredibly powerful and fast operating system. It requires only a few megabyte disk space and 8MB of RAM to run.

submitted by realpanzer from kolibrios.org

Airbus' self-flying plane just completed successful taxi, take-off, and landing tests, opening the door for fully autonomous flight

submitted by magnora7 from businessinsider.com

New Apple 13.5 iOS update includes contact tracing

submitted by magnora7 from arstechnica.com

Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down - A new project aims to make LibGen, which hosts 33 terabytes of scientific papers and books, much more stable. Free accessible science for future generations.

submitted by magnora7 from vice.com

"Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people"

submitted by Robin from theregister.co.uk

Two years later, the reasons for Microsoft's Github Acquisition still remain a mystery

submitted by noble_pleb from prahladyeri.com

U.S. Eyes Building Nuclear Power Plants on Mars, the Moon

submitted by magnora7 from time.com

All new iPhones might be forced to have a removable battery. (Hell yes!)

submitted by Handroid7 from techradar.com

Top trackers

submitted by useless_aether from files.catbox.moe

A List Of Alternative Social Networks Similar to Reddit, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook - GreyCoder

submitted by greyone from greycoder.com

Google has actively scrubbed "Seth Rich" from its search suggestions

submitted by Orangutan from i.redd.it

Coca-Cola paid scientists to downplay how sweet drinks fueled the obesity crisis

submitted by smart_jackal from dailymail.co.uk

DuckDuckGo Browser Caught Tracking Websites Visited By User

submitted by [deleted] from techworm.net

This guy's VR matches up with his apartment.

submitted by magnora7 from gfycat.com

'Collapse OS' Is an Open Source Operating System for the Post-Apocalypse - The operating system is designed to work with ubiquitous, easy-to-scavenge components in a future where consumer electronics are a thing of the past.

submitted by Orangutan from vice.com

"HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print"

submitted by Robin from robertheaton.com

Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986

submitted by magnora7 from nme.com

Hidden VPN Owners Unveiled: 97 VPNs Run by 23 Companies | VPNpro | Interestingly, a few are linked to Israeli's UNIT 8200

submitted by Jesus from vpnpro.com

Self-charging, (28) thousand-year battery startup NDB aces key tests and lands first beta customers

submitted by Vigte from techcrunch.com

On Liberating My Smartwatch From Cloud Services

submitted by magnora7 from bunniestudios.com

Dam built by robots? Japan's Obayashi tests it out

submitted by magnora7 from asia.nikkei.com

Wanna see how Google is currently being used to gaslight Germans? As of June 8, 2020, 11:26 pm local time, it translates "far-left extremist" as Rechtsextremist, which means—you guessed it—"right extremist".

submitted by Chipit from translate.google.de

Non-replaceable batteries: Why they are a terrible idea. (The fastest-failing part of a mobile phone has become non-modular.)

submitted by Handroid7 from poal.co

Windows 10 Keeps Getting Worse

submitted by Optimus85 from youtube.com

CIA Reveals Details Of Bird-Like 1970s Stealth Drone — With Planned Nuclear Propulsion

submitted by killerjavi98 from forbes.com

The FBI Is Secretly Using A $2 Billion Travel Company As A Global Surveillance Tool

submitted by runtis from forbes.com

IEEE bans Huawei employees from reviewing or handling papers for IEEE journals, some people resign from IEEE editorial board as a result

submitted by happysmash27 from reddit.com

Demon core - a 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) subcritical mass of plutonium measuring 89 millimetres (3.5 in) in diameter, which was involved in two criticality accidents

submitted by magnora7 from en.wikipedia.org

Comparing specs of upcoming Linux phones

submitted by realpanzer from forums.puri.sm

Boeing X-37 - Reusable low-earth orbit flight vehicle first flown in 2010 by the US Air Force, 3 were built and are still in use. NASA transferred development to DARPA

submitted by magnora7 from en.wikipedia.org

"Tens Of Millions Of Android Phones Come Preloaded With Dangerous Malware..."

submitted by Robin from forbes.com

Cable lobby seeks better reputation by dropping “cable” from its name

submitted by Farseli from arstechnica.com

MIT researchers are now 3D-printing glass

submitted by magnora7 from techcrunch.com

The 3D-Printed Gun Isn’t Coming. It’s Already Here.

submitted by realpanzer from gen.medium.com

5 Reasons Why DNA Is The Ineludible Future Of Data Storage

submitted by realpanzer from medium.com

Nobody likes standards anymore, everyone wants to create their own walled gardens

submitted by noble_pleb from prahladyeri.com

YouTube Vanced, ad free YouTube for Android

submitted by Edvin from vanced.app

While we all argue and debate about issues that affect us in the middle and lower classes, the elites are trying to create a technological God. This isn’t hyperbole, a single super intelligence is expected to complete 20,000 years of research in a week. And they think they’ll be able to control it

submitted by Questionable from youtube.com

Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe

submitted by magnora7 from radio.garden

Elon Musk provides partial list of Ventilators sent from Tesla to multiple hospitals across CA after the media reports he's lied and hasn't sent any. "What I find most surprising is that CNN still exists."

submitted by BillionDollarEgg3 from twitter.com

Zoom Removes Code That Sends Data to Facebook

submitted by Vigte from vice.com

Founder Of Open Source Is Banned By Open Source

submitted by useless_aether from youtube.com

Raspberry Pi 4 released

submitted by m68k from self.technology

Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Actually Government Malware

submitted by Timmy from web.archive.org

In a Direct Challenge to Their Employers, Tech Workers Begin to Organize

submitted by d3rr from kqed.org

PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

submitted by realpanzer from pine64.org

Meet "Prosthesis," the impressive new all-terrain, exo-bionic, 9,000-pound mech suit that you can pilot

submitted by JasonCarswell from themindunleashed.com

Trump bans dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok, WeChat

submitted by 1donteven from apnews.com

Interested in learning SQL? This free online course from the University of Michigan is the best place to start

submitted by Nasroo from nasroo.com

Amazon Wants to Blanket the World in Beacons that Fall to the Earth like Maple Seeds

submitted by Stankmango from protocol.com

Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Tesla's Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report

submitted by Mnemonic from tomshardware.com

Self-stabilizing motorcycle demonstration

submitted by Ian from i.imgur.com

Macs are SLOWER than PCs. Here’s why.(LinusTechTips)

submitted by Optimus85 from youtube.com

Two years ago: Obama Successfully Gives The Internet Away To Multinational Global Entities • Now The End Begins

submitted by useless_aether from nowtheendbegins.com

Elon Musk’s mystery Tesla buyout funder is Saudi Arabia

submitted by magnora7 from arstechnica.com

Nvidia acquires Arm in $40 billion deal

submitted by happysmash27 from gsmarena.com

The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers

submitted by D0z from uspirg.org

The "3-2-1" backup rule

submitted by D0z from d0z.me

Building A Small PC Setup - Mini Computer

submitted by Optimus85 from youtube.com

Facebook To Issue ‘Warnings’ To Users Who Have Liked Or Clicked On ‘Coronavirus Misinformation’

submitted by Vigte from blacklistednews.com

Interest in 3d TV and 3d movies has basically disappeared since 2011

submitted by magnora7 from trends.google.com

A two inch piece of tape fooled the Tesla’s cameras and made the car quickly and mistakenly speed up to 85 instead of 35.

submitted by Robin from mcafee.com

YouTuber Uses Neural Networks to Upscale 1896 Short Film to 4K 60 FPS | TechSpot

submitted by DeWhoDeWho from techspot.com

3D-printed guns are back on the market, untraceable, and unstoppable

submitted by fanterbanter from screenshot-magazine.com

eevBLAB #69 - The Problem With Bitchute

submitted by zyxzevn from bitchute.com

Recycling Is Broken

submitted by Vigte from earther.gizmodo.com

The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can

submitted by magnora7 from youtube.com

Facebook shares slip after Instagram founders quit

submitted by magnora7 from reuters.com

GitHub banned us without notice — Is Microsoft the risk we didn’t consider?

submitted by Mnemonic from medium.com

The US chip industry starts to wake up to new competitive reality - The end of Moore's Law?

submitted by magnora7 from archive.is

Home Assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.

submitted by realpanzer from home-assistant.io

Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it

submitted by realpanzer from freerepublic.com

The Portable Web?

submitted by realpanzer from m0yng.uk

Facebook Launches Instagram Reels, A Competitor Of Tiktok,

submitted by Simturax from simturax.com

Police Surveilled George Floyd Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr

submitted by magnora7 from theintercept.com

How a Chinese company built a $250 million search hijacking empire

submitted by oracular_vision from medium.com

Why The Vertical Takeoff Airliner Failed: The Rotodyne Story

submitted by magnora7 from youtube.com

Chinese scientists develop handheld sonic weapon for crowd control

submitted by Robin from scmp.com

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