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Data from open-source ancestry site GEDMatch has led to more arrests

NSA deletion of more than 685 million call records raises questions

How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment

‘The Blue Wave Came’: Win for Non-Hispanic Democrat Signals Big Shift in Miami

At Toys ‘R’ Us, ‘There Is Nothing Left’: The Day It Closed for Good

Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit’s Biggest Backer

3 Black U.S. Senators Introduce Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Hate Crime

Kudlow Falsely Claims Deficit Is ‘Coming Down Rapidly’

Technology companies are facing a new crisis as their employees press executives to rethink their work with the Trump administration and in many cases drop lucrative federal contracts

Can Elon Musk and Tesla Reinvent the Way Cars Are Made?

California law gives consumers new rights to prevent collection and sale of online data

Quiz App found leaking Facebook data of 120 million users as recently as last month

The Millennial Socialists Are Coming

Court throws out Time Warner Cable $229,500 penalty for 153 robocalls

Uruguay Makes Sure Ronaldo Follows Messi Out of World Cup

Of Course, It Could Not Happen Here

Why you should not use Google Cloud

A company was fined 1,190,000 Euros for text message scams and was caught 2 years later doing the same thing

What It Costs to Be Smuggled Across the U.S. Border

France Knocks Lionel Messi and Argentina Out of World Cup

Oil industry 'peddling misinformation' about electric vehicles

Dave Eggers: A Cultural Vacuum in Trump’s White House

Rise of the Machines: Fracking Execs Plan Profits by Using Automation to Shrink Workforce

AI to help tackle fake news in Mexican election - An AI-powered search tool is being used to monitor fake news and polling station problems in Mexico's elections.

UK Reveals Plan for a Centralized Biometric Database That Sounds Like an Absolute Nightmare

Facial recognition was used to identify Capital Gazette shooter

Microsoft details secret ‘pocketable’ Surface device in leaked email - A new and disruptive dual-screen device to blur the lines between mobile and PC

White America’s Age-Old, Misguided Obsession With Civility

India's huge solar ambitions could push coal further into shade

Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet: The site’s head claims that the policy of not collecting personal information allows people to be "more true to themselves"

The National Security Agency is deleting more than 685 million call records the government obtained since 2015 from telecommunication companies in connection with investigations, raising questions about the viability of the program

A Better Reason to Delay Kennedy’s Replacement

Your Tinder Photos Are Finally Encrypted Thanks to a 69-Year-Old Senator

Amazon to Buy Online Pharmacy PillPack, Jumping Into the Drug Business

See Where New York City’s Elite High Schools Get Their Students

The 5 Victims of the Capital Gazette Newsroom Shooting in Annapolis

Prankster Calls the President, and the White House Puts Him Right Through

He’s Going Back to His Former Wife. Sort Of.

The Tragedy of Angela Merkel

Ocasio-Cortez Tells Colbert: ‘We Changed Who Turns Out’

California Passes Sweeping Law to Protect Online Privacy

The Cosmic Joke of Donald Trump’s Power

She Knows How to Make an Exit. You’re Reading It.

Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in 4-months

Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread

UK Reveals Plan for a Centralized Biometric Database That Sounds Like an Absolute Nightmare

G.M. Says New Wave of Trump Tariffs Could Force U.S. Job Cuts

Man arrested on charges of threatening to kill FCC chairman's family

‘Shaken’ Rosenstein Felt Used by White House in Comey Firing

Facial Recognition Company Says It Won't Sell To Law Enforcement, Knowing It'll Be Abused

The Outstanding Goals of Ronaldo and Kroos as You’ve Never Seen Them

How Long Can We Live? The Limit Hasn’t Been Reached, Study Finds

Man charged with threatening to kill Ajit Pai’s family.

Comcast confirms nationwide outage

T-Mobile CEO Tells Congress That Reducing Competition Will Increase Competition

Comcast and Xfinity Facing a Nationwide Outage, Users Say

Majority of Americans Think Social Media Sites Censor Political Viewpoints

‘This Is Intimidation’: Interview With ICE Whistle-Blower Is Interrupted by Federal Agents

AT&T will pay $5.25 million fine for 911 outages - The company will also have to file regular reports with the FCC.

New battery that self heats and charges fast makes electric vehicles climate-immune

Google Is Planning A Game Platform That Could Take On Xbox And PlayStation

Who Is Jarrod Ramos, the Suspect in the Annapolis Newsroom Shooting?

World Cup 2018 Bracket: The 16 Teams Left

We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air.

Exactis said to have exposed 340 million records, more than Equifax breach

CA Lawmaker Shamed For Net Neutrality Sellout Via Billboard

Google de-lists website critical of U.S. government polygraph policy on key terms

Investigation of fake net neutrality foes has been stymied by the FCC, New York attorney general says

ICE Modified Its 'Risk Assessment' Software So It Automatically Recommends Detention

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A 28-Year-Old Democratic Giant Slayer

‘Cyber-criminals are abusing multilingual character sets to trick people into visiting phishing websites. The non-English characters allow scammers to create "lookalike" sites with domain names almost indistinguishable from legitimate ones.’

Don't play millennials for fools on net neutrality - or voting

Are certain websites abusing cookie policy and "forcing" users to accept advertising cookies?

Fox desperately trying to avoid selling to Comcast

The SD association announces new type of SD card named SD Ultra Capacity and uses PCIe and NVMe interfaces to massively increase transfer speeds

Scientists figure out how to turn CO2 gas into solid rock quickly and easily

Sonia Sotomayor Delivers Sharp Dissent in Travel Ban Case

Hundreds of Hotels Affected by Data Breach at Hotel Booking Software Provider

Colorado Primary Election Results

A.I. Can Track Humans Through Walls With Just a Wifi Signal

Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Travel Ban, Delivering Endorsement of Presidential Power

Firefox gets speedier tab switching, a new accessibility tool for developers and more

Gov. Walker rejects lawmakers’ request to issue executive order on net neutrality

Senator to FCC: How much do police stingrays drain a cellphone battery? "If the Commission does not conduct or require testing, please explain why…"

‘Why Do You Hate Us?’ He Asked. ‘Because You’re Mexicans,’ She Replied.

WPA3 Wi-Fi is here, and it's harder to hack - That's good, because the last update was during the George W. Bush administration.

How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port

HBO website is down in China after John Oliver skewers Xi Jinping on Last Week Tonight.

Into the Wild With Kanye West

Harley-Davidson, Blaming E.U. Tariffs, Says It Will Move Some Production Out of U.S.

White Extinction Anxiety

Why We Are Leaving the G.O.P.

Chip stocks plunge after Trump's reported plan to restrict foreign technology investment

JD.com opens automated warehouse that fulfills 200,000 packages daily... with 4 employees

What’s the Yield Curve? ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street’s Attention

Meet the 8 spooky AT&T buildings that almost certainly also serve the NSA

The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight US Cities

TrumpHotels.org Purchased by Pranksters to Promote America's Concentration Camps

Gravy’s new mobile game show is ‘Price is Right’ mixed with QVC

"Facebook mistakenly leaked developer analytics reports to testers" - with all seriousness: FB is the kindergarten for developers.

AT&T is now forcing unlimited customers to take a bundle

Study: US oil and gas methane emissions have been dramatically underestimated

Brookings survey finds 52 percent believe robots will perform most human activities in 30 years

India eyeing a new monster 100GW solar-capacity goal

No wallet, no worries: Australian shops adopt Chinese payment apps

World's tiniest 'computer' makes a grain of rice seem massive

SpaceX Wins $130 Million Falcon Heavy Contract to Launch Classified USAF Satellite in 2020

57% of tech industry employees are suffering from job burnout

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Was Asked to Leave Restaurant Over White House Work

As Critics Assail Trump, His Supporters Dig In Deeper

Why Are Parents Bringing Their Children on Treacherous Treks to the U.S. Border?

The Last of the Tiger Parents

Engineer invented speaker tech that limits sounds from reaching surrounding areas

Mark Cuban is trying to get rid of overdraft fees

Apple Admits MacBook Keyboard (butterfly mechanism) Fault, Offers Free Repairs

Why This Activist Believes We Urgently Need A Universal Declaration Of Digital Rights

Thousands of Bourbon Barrels Come Crashing Down in Kentucky

Ajit Pai Rushes To Weaken Media Ownership Cap To Aid Sinclair... While Under Investigation For Being Too Cozy With Sinclair

Amazon workers 'refuse' to build tech for US immigration, warning Jeff Bezos of IBM's Nazi legacy: 'IBM’s systems were employed in the 1940s to help Hitler,' Amazon workers told Jeff Bezos. 'We will not let that happen again.'

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 that police must obtain a warrant to obtain location info from a cell tower

Sixth Grader’s Parents Say School Didn’t Do Enough to Stop Her Suicide