For years, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been the most vocal privacy champion among all of big tech’s top leaders. But within Apple, a decision to curtail ad tracking of iPhone users in 2020 sparked an intense debateabout just how far to push privacy changes poised to upend the digital advertising ...

The decision was announced by the IDPC on Tuesday

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The main risk is US legal jurisdiction.

Of all of the foreign life ways Indians held, one of the first the Europeans targeted for elimination was the Two Spirits among Native American cultures.

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Thousands are roleplaying as cops on the VRChat platform, engaging in a mix of right (saving hostages) and wrong (planting drugs on civilians).

Russia blocked Wikipedia briefly in 2015.

Apple made your phone more private — and created a huge problem for Mark Zuckerberg.

Tech companies had their biggest year ever in 2021.

Klobuchar is spearheading the bipartisan bill.

You can still share your own address, though.

What comes next.

It's an American solution to a global problem.

GM backed Trump’s fight with California and lost.

Why the military needs Silicon Valley, now more than ever

a comprehensive analysis of the year's new malware!

I'm generally a fan of the Memories feature of Apple Photos, especially the inclusion of the widget starting in iOS 14. However, there are drawbacks. The biggest of which is that Photos can surface painful past moments.1 An extreme example is the attack on the Capitol last year. Here's Jim Newell at Slate: What was...

Offending posts—including sexually explicit images—linger in comment histories long after their removal from subreddits

A browser extension that reveals Amazon brand and exclusive products while you shop on the site

Employees say their complaints about workplace misconduct were routinely ignored

A new report reveals allegations of persistent mistreatment.

“Smishing" is an attempt to collect logins or other sensitive information with a malicious text message—and it's on the rise.

A new study shows that the vast majority of the time Facebook has made an enforcement decision on a political ad after it ran, it’s made the wrong call.

Instead of submitting a form and waiting to hear back

Remember when Microsoft said individual apps might be a bad experience?

The prosecution drew less blood from Elizabeth Holmes than a Theranos test

‘Project Guardian’ aims to protect prominent tweeters from abuse, harassment

Microsoft could move slower to ship better code, discontinue old features (like Apple), or get its customers to a good security baseline (like Google).