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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

The EARN IT Act Violates the Constitution | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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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 Mac ransomware spreading through piracy

submitted by magnora7 from blog.malwarebytes.com

March 1, 1873, Remington Company invents the QWERTY keyboard

submitted by useless_aether from files.catbox.moe

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

submitted by Robin from theregister.co.uk

Welcome To The Old Internet Again!

submitted by BillionDollarEgg3 from theoldnet.com

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

submitted by Mnemonic from fastcompany.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

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

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

submitted by magnora7 from zerohedge.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

New Apple 13.5 iOS update includes contact tracing

submitted by magnora7 from arstechnica.com

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

submitted by sawboss from news.ycombinator.com

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

submitted by Handroid7 from techradar.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

This guy's VR matches up with his apartment.

submitted by magnora7 from gfycat.com

Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986

submitted by magnora7 from nme.com

DuckDuckGo Browser Caught Tracking Websites Visited By User

submitted by azaad from techworm.net

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

submitted by greyone from greycoder.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

Top trackers

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

submitted by Orangutan from i.redd.it

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

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

submitted by Robin from robertheaton.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

Windows 10 Keeps Getting Worse

submitted by Optimus85 from youtube.com

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

submitted by Farseli from arstechnica.com

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

Zoom Removes Code That Sends Data to Facebook

submitted by Vigte from vice.com

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

submitted by Robin from forbes.com

Raspberry Pi 4 released

submitted by m68k from self.technology

MIT researchers are now 3D-printing glass

submitted by magnora7 from techcrunch.com

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

submitted by Vigte from blacklistednews.com

Founder Of Open Source Is Banned By Open Source

submitted by useless_aether from youtube.com

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

submitted by Optimus85 from youtube.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

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

Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Actually Government Malware

submitted by Timmy from web.archive.org

Elon Musk’s mystery Tesla buyout funder is Saudi Arabia

submitted by magnora7 from arstechnica.com

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

submitted by d3rr from kqed.org

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

It took seven miles to pull over a Tesla with a seemingly asleep driver

submitted by Mnemonic from arstechnica.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

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

submitted by magnora7 from trends.google.com

These giant floating piers let visitors walk on water, made from renewable interlocking plastic cubes

submitted by magnora7 from youtube.com

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

submitted by oracular_vision from medium.com

Facebook shares slip after Instagram founders quit

submitted by magnora7 from reuters.com

Chinese scientists develop handheld sonic weapon for crowd control

submitted by Robin from scmp.com

I'm told this is in the Terms of Service of that face app that everyone is using lately. That's a YIKES from me

submitted by SierraKiloBravo from pbs.twimg.com

US Senator has Proposed a Ban on Loot Boxes

submitted by Stankmango from bbc.co.uk

Recycling Is Broken

submitted by Vigte from earther.gizmodo.com

The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can

submitted by magnora7 from youtube.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

Reddit Joins Social Media Collapse With Massive Leak Of User Data

submitted by magnora7 from amerika.org

The US military is getting serious about nuclear thermal propulsion

submitted by magnora7 from arstechnica.com

Why The Vertical Takeoff Airliner Failed: The Rotodyne Story

submitted by magnora7 from youtube.com

64 Core EPYC CPU – HOLY $H!T

submitted by Optimus85 from youtube.com

What is to stop saidit from writing a bot to copy every submission from say reddit /r/technology into saidit?

submitted by grobean from self.technology

Why optical media is heavily underrated

submitted by Handroid7 from poal.co

Electrical plugs that make half of the power strip unusable

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Scientist Behind The Navy's "UFO Patents" Has Now Filed One For A Compact Fusion Reactor

submitted by Vigte from thedrive.com

"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, then it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

submitted by PikonParadox from aeon.co

Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project and more

submitted by x0x7 from zdnet.com

Facial recognition = old hat. The Pentagon has a laser that identifies people by their heartbeat.

submitted by Robin from engadget.com

Antiwar Movement Spreads among Tech Workers

submitted by Mnemonic from blogs.scientificamerican.com

Elon Musk forced to step down as chairman of Tesla, remains CEO

submitted by Mnemonic from theverge.com

Tesla's Musk is sued for calling Thai cave rescuer paedophile {happening!!!}

submitted by Mnemonic from uk.reuters.com

Almost half of US cellphone calls will be scams by next year, says report

submitted by magnora7 from cnet.com

Amazon Promises “Unwavering” Commitment to Police, Military Clients Using AI Technology

submitted by PsyDerr from theintercept.com

Senator Blumenthal Is Super Mad That Zoom Isn't Actually Offering The End To End Encryption His Law Will Outlaw

submitted by Drewski from techdirt.com

Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking

submitted by newblicious from arstechnica.com

With Millions of Students Cut Off Digitally, Coronavirus Pandemic Bolsters Demand to Treat Internet as Public Utility

submitted by Orangutan from commondreams.org

A smart phone from 1984 - The STC Executel

submitted by Optimus85 from youtube.com

Microsoft guy: Mozilla should give up on Firefox and go with Chromium too | ZDNet

submitted by useless_aether from zdnet.com

AI Deciphers Persian Cuneiform Tablets from 25 Centuries Ago

submitted by Maruko from medium.com

Universal LEGO Sorting Machine, made from a RaspberryPi and 10,000 lego bricks

submitted by Robin from youtube.com

Share large files (upto 2.5GB) securely using Firefox (no installation required)

submitted by BlisteringBernacle from hashtagtechgeek.com

What are some of the stupidest tech decisions forced upon the users solely for profit?

submitted by Ian from i.redd.it

There's a scarily good 'deepfakes' YouTube channel that's quietly growing – and it's freaking everyone out

submitted by Optimus85 from theregister.co.uk

An old classic Intel whisper blower is now supported by years of research

submitted by Vigte from youtube.com

I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone

submitted by TheWebOfSlime from motherboard.vice.com

Slack just deleted all Iranian accounts with No prior notice whatsoever

submitted by magnora7 from mobile.twitter.com

Worlds Beyond Worlds — Announcing the First Gaming Multiverse, Ever.

submitted by Vigte from blog.enjincoin.io

World's Oldest Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years

submitted by magnora7 from torrentfreak.com

Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: Everything You Need to Know About WPA3

submitted by magnora7 from spectrum.ieee.org

Why the World Should Be Up in Arms About the EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe — GDPR Article 11 - Services must get a license to make links to the news. Article 13 - Posting media that might be copyrighted requires sending it to a copyright enforcement algorithm

submitted by magnora7 from eff.org

Trump Signs Executive Order Stripping Social Media Companies Of "Liability Shield"

submitted by magnora7 from zerohedge.com

"America's nuke arsenal to swap eight-inch floppy disks for solid-state drives"

submitted by Robin from theregister.co.uk

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