Twitter Boots 7,000 QAnon Conspiracy Theorists
Plus: Congress rejects demilitarization of police, Jorgensen polling at 3 percent, and more...
Plus: Congress rejects demilitarization of police, Jorgensen polling at 3 percent, and more...
By kicking out critics on Twitch and Discord, is the military running afoul of the First Amendment?
“There is no such thing as expertise on the future.”
Plus: "Heartbeat law" ruled unconstitutional, introducing the Atlas of Surveillance, Brave New World reimagined, and more...
Will tech companies resist orders to cooperate with demands for information to root out dissidents?
Plus: Controversy around "open debate and toleration" letter, grim economic forecasts, and more...
This isn't a bill about fighting child porn. Don't fall for it.
There's no need to pity successful companies or grant them special deals, but state officials shouldn't be so blinded by an anti-corporate ideology that they drive businesses away, either.
Plus: Time to cancel U.S. propaganda outlets, Twitch sued over sexy women, new Assange indictment, social-justice symbolism, and more...
The chemical company has agreed to create a $10 billion settlement fund
A new, terrible anti-encryption bill with a twist
The very idea that our intelligence agencies could keep encryption bypasses secret is absurd.
The information in the no-knock warrant application was based purely on guilt by association.
The coronavirus is not in your phone. Why should it be used to justify border searches?
The NBC News Verification Unit sadly did not live up to its name.
Apple and Google’s API promises to put privacy first. State health authorities have other ideas.
Plus: Netflix out-trademarks the U.S. government, contraception shortages, and more...
How we lost our social spaces and how we found them again
False testimony and prosecutorial misconduct put Walter Ogrod on death row.
Making masks, face shields, and other protective equipment is the bottom-up, COVID-19 version of rolling bandages or knitting socks for the troops.
The president promises penalties he has no power to impose, while the company promises moderation it cannot deliver.
Technological—not political—solutions will secure true freedom of speech online
Online censorship is coming, and it’s going to be bad news for everybody.
Today's Crew Dragon launch marks the first time a private company has sent humans into orbit.
Plus: unrest in Minneapolis, Twitter labels Trump tweet, and more...
Plus: the weird new battle lines on warrantless surveillance, more CDC incompetence, Minneapolis on fire, and more…
Plus: Virginia decriminalizes marijuana, it's not Trump's call whether we close the country again, and more…
Plus: "Obscene" cartoonist gets probation, U.S. teen births plummet, a reopening win in Ohio, and more...
Hamas "used and relied on" Facebook "as among its most important tools to facilitate and carry out its terrorist activity," the plaintiffs claimed.
The FBI and attorney general want to ruin everybody's data security and draft Apple into compromising your safety.
Will changes to how many of us work outlast the pandemic?
Stocks rise steeply on good news about mRNA vaccines.
The infection fatality rate probably varies from one place to another.
Karen wants to speak to your manager. The senator from Missouri wants to become your manager.
That has interesting implications for where people will base themselves in the future.
Forcing Google to behave like a public utility would probably not serve the interests of those demanding that designation—or the rest of us.
Forcibly collecting DNA samples from immigrants in detention is yet another horrifying form of mass surveillance
Stanford researcher Tina White and the new nonprofit Covid Watch are committed to protecting both individual rights and public health.
Mark Zuckerberg can't please the anti-tech populists on the left and the right, no matter what he does.
Apple and Google's Bluetooth-based app would reportedly be voluntary and anonymous. Privacy advocates say we should accept nothing less.
Apps that track users are being hyped as the way to lift lockdowns. But there are reasons to be skeptical.
The "privatization" of space has already expanded the possibilities of the cosmos for all mankind far beyond what six decades of federal bureaucracy could.