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Mozilla, Firefox planning to censor conservatives at the browser level; deplatforming isn’t enough

submitted by MarcoPolo from (dcclothesline.com)

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

submitted by [deleted] from (androidpolice.com)

With so many tech censorship stories occurring all at one it is clear the mask has fully slipped and we are at the very start of a full tech war.

submitted by x0x7 from (self.technology)

MailChimp Banned Over Censorship Concerns

submitted by Sw0rdofDam0cles from (slickstack.io)

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)

So many reasons Apple is wrong here.

submitted by JasonCarswell from (imgur.com)

Facebook executives admit meddling with election, backing Biden

submitted by MarcoPolo from (oann.com)

Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs

submitted by Panzerfaust from (americanpurpose.com)

Dot-Bit uses Bitcoin technology to decentralize and free website addresses, just like Bitcoin decentralizes and frees money.

submitted by Panzerfaust from (namecoin.org)

What's wrong with Intel: Former principal engineer unloads

submitted by Timmy from (pcworld.com)

The EARN IT Act Violates the Constitution | Electronic Frontier Foundation

submitted by DeWhoDeWho from (eff.org)

SvarDOS - an open-source DOS distribution

submitted by Panzerfaust from (svardos.osdn.io)

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

submitted by smart_jackal from (techtudor.blogspot.com)

New Pine64 phones with upgraded hardware begin shipping in August

submitted by runtis from (arstechnica.com)

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)

MX-Fluxbox Raspberry Pi “Ragout” now Final

submitted by Panzerfaust from (mxlinux.org)

XigmaNAS is an Open Source Storage NAS distribution based on FreeBSD

submitted by Panzerfaust from (xigmanas.com)

New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy

submitted by magnora7 from (blog.malwarebytes.com)

BREAKING: State SUPREME COURT REVOKES Law Requiring Police Warrants For INTERNET SPYING

submitted by NewsJunkie from (thedailyfodder.com)

Mullvad DoH and DoT

submitted by Panzerfaust from (mullvad.net)

Free Speech Platform Gab Receives 3 Million New Users in 12 Days

submitted by MarcoPolo from (bigleaguepolitics.com)

Windows10Debloater - script to remove Windows 10 bloatware

submitted by [deleted] from (github.com)

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

submitted by Mnemonic from (fastcompany.com)

Survive The Purge, A List Of Popular Uncensored Alternative Media Options

submitted by MarcoPolo from (100percentfedup.com)

As Predicted, Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo

submitted by Pis-dur from (spreadprivacy.com)

March 1, 1873, Remington Company invents the QWERTY keyboard

submitted by useless_aether from (files.catbox.moe)

“These CEOs Who Are Doing This Should Be Prosecuted Criminally” – Rep. Devin Nunes Calls for Criminal Charges Against Tech Giants

submitted by MarcoPolo from (clarion.causeaction.com)

We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

submitted by magnora7 from (itnext.io)

Honest Question

submitted by smart_jackal from (self.technology)

"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)

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)

The FBI Says Your “Smart TV” is Watching and Listening to You.

submitted by MarcoPolo from (blacklistednews.com)

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

submitted by Entropick from (cnbc.com)

RISC-V, the Linux of the chip world, is starting to produce technological breakthroughs

submitted by Drewski from (zdnet.com)

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

submitted by [deleted] from (ameliorated.info)

Anaylsis: More Than Half Of Joe Biden’s Twitter Followers Are FAKE and Were Just Created in January

submitted by MarcoPolo from (greeknewsondemand.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)

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

submitted by magnora7 from (thedrive.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)

The E.U., With Cheers From The FBI, Is Dismantling VPNs To Spy On Americans

submitted by NewsJunkie from (thedailyfodder.com)

How Zoom put 4 million computers at risk, of not only privacy breaches, but of being completely taken over by random people. And just as importantly, the hilarious drama that ensued.

submitted by Pis-dur from (youtube.com)

Big Tech Corp

submitted by BillionDollarEgg3 from (i.imgur.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 [deleted] 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)

Robinhood is now limiting users to 1 share of GameStop and has restricted trading on 22 other companies

submitted by format from (africa.businessinsider.com)

Nine in 10 Adults Think Buying Latest Smartphone Is ‘Waste of Money’

submitted by [deleted] from (independent.co.uk)

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

submitted by noble_pleb from (prahladyeri.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)

Massive Texas Blackouts, State of Emergency Triggered By Failed Green Energy Wind Turbines...Can't Handle Winter Weather

submitted by MarcoPolo from (100percentfedup.com)

Parler Switches Domain Registry to Epik Following AWS Ban

submitted by MarcoPolo from (nationalfile.com)

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

submitted by magnora7 from (time.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)

Apple is lobbying against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China

submitted by sproketboy from (washingtonpost.com)

In 2014 Facebook manipulated the news feeds of users in order to show that emotions can be manipulated through digital social networks

submitted by dontbuyanylogos from (pnas.org)

Block google analytics

submitted by carn0ld03 from (self.technology)

Urgent: EARN IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives | Electronic Frontier Foundation

submitted by DeWhoDeWho from (eff.org)

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

submitted by smart_jackal from (dailymail.co.uk)

Report: Twitter's Head of Site Integrity, Who Is Responsible for "Election Security and Misinformation" Says There Are "Nazis in the White House" and Trump is "Racist Tangerine"

submitted by WarmPotato from (thegatewaypundit.com)

DuckDuckGo Browser Caught Tracking Websites Visited By User

submitted by [deleted] 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)

Amazon Censors Book That Criticizes Transgender Ideology

submitted by MarcoPolo from (newsbusters.org)

The Great Purge Of 2021 Will Have Dire Consequences Nationwide As "Big Tech" Declares War Upon America By Censoring Our Commander In Chief

submitted by MarcoPolo from (allnewspipeline.com)

Top trackers

submitted by useless_aether from (files.catbox.moe)

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

submitted by Orangutan from (i.redd.it)

Australia Stomps on Big Tech as Thousands of Aussies Delete Facebook Profiles!

submitted by christnmusicreleases from (youtube.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)

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

submitted by Robin from (robertheaton.com)

Change your MAC address with a shell script

submitted by Panzerfaust from (josh.works)

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)

BREAKING: ‘Pro-Free Speech’ Parler Bans Milo Yiannopoulos for Offensive Jokes

submitted by MarcoPolo from (nationalfile.com)

The world's first commercially available flying car is now street legal in Europe. Yes, I said flying car.

submitted by christnmusicreleases from (notthebee.com)

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

submitted by Vigte from (techcrunch.com)

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

submitted by magnora7 from (asia.nikkei.com)

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

submitted by Farseli from (arstechnica.com)

OpenBSD - I love it so much

submitted by Panzerfaust from (sive.rs)

When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed

submitted by [deleted] from (arstechnica.com)

On Liberating My Smartwatch From Cloud Services

submitted by magnora7 from (bunniestudios.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)

Evolution of the Scrollbar

submitted by Panzerfaust from (scrollbars.matoseb.com)

Facebook is harmful to young social media users: NSPCC accuses tech giant of downplaying harmful and abusive content, lack of transparency, cherry-picking report data

submitted by MarcoPolo from (naturalnews.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)

Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes — record-breaking density of 317 gigabytes per square inch — tape head with an accuracy that is about 1.5 times the width of a DNA molecule

submitted by magnora7 from (petapixel.com)

Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping – Purism

submitted by [deleted] from (puri.sm)

The Truecrypt Mystery and Intelligence Agencies' Fixation with Decrypting Your Hard Drive

submitted by gebTA48 from (cheapskatesguide.org)

Bombadillo is a non-web browser, designed for a growing list of protocols operating outside of the web.

submitted by [deleted] from (bombadillo.colorfield.space)

HelenOS is a portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system designed and implemented from scratch.

submitted by [deleted] from (helenos.org)

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

submitted by killerjavi98 from (forbes.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)

Don't Toss It, Fix It! Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the "Right to Repair"

submitted by enefi from (reasonstobecheerful.world)

Comparing specs of upcoming Linux phones

submitted by [deleted] from (forums.puri.sm)

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