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Donald Trump Keeps Losing Files To 'Flooding' Whenever Investigators Start Looking

[photo1]Some people have the absolute worst luck. Like Donald Trump, who suffered an unfortunate incident at Mar-a-Lago last year when a pool flooded and ended up spilling into the server room. That j...

Germany's antitrust watchdog questions the future of behavioral advertising

Germany's antitrust watchdog made some interesting comments vis-a-vis the programmatic advertising market yesterday -- which question the appropriateness and sustainability of the (still dominant) tra...

To Combat the Overdose Crisis, Expand Drug-Checking Programs

[photo1]Abdullah Shihipar Alexandra CollinsOver the past two weeks, Minnesota and Vermont took steps to explicitly legalize, fund, and expand drug-checking resources. These are major developments for ...

The government can't seize your data -- but it can buy it

When the Biden administration proposed new protections earlier this month to prevent law enforcement from demanding reproductive healthcare data from companies, they took a critical first step in prot...

The Data Broker That Targeted Abortion Clinics Landed a US Military Contract

[photo1]Bennett CyphersThe data broker made famous for selling location data related to abortion clinic visits has signed a contract with the US Air Force and plans to provide information about "sensi...

How Parenting Tech Opens the Door to State Surveillance

[photo1]Hannah ZeavinIn 1939, the Great Depression still raging, the president of Zenith Radio Corporation, Commander Eugene F. McDonald Jr., commissioned the first baby monitor, designed by the famou...

Security News This Week: Popular Chinese Shopping App Pinduoduo Is Laced With Malware

[photo1]Lily Hay NewmanA United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement database WIRED obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that the agency has been leaning on a certain type...

A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China--and Won

[photo1]By Amos ZeebergHow to Love Tech AgainI Saw God in a Chip FactoryThe Never-Ending Fight to RepairThe Future Is Analog Who's Watching the Watchers?Now ReadingWeapons of Gas DisruptionAt a locati...

The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem

[photo1]Dell CameronIn one sense, today's US congressional hearing on TikTok was a big success: It revealed, over five hours, how desperately the United States needs national data-privacy protections-...

A US Agency Rejected Face Recognition--and Landed in Big Trouble

Khari Johnson[photo1]In June 2021, Dave Zvenyach, director of a group tasked with improving digital access to US government services, sent a Slack message to his team. He'd decided that Login.gov, whi...

OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, a startup attempts a humanoid robot, and Salesforce turns it around

TGIF, my TechCrunch homies. It's that time of week again -- the time for Week in Review, where we recap the past five days in tech news. As always, lots happened, so let's dig in sans delay.Well, perh...

What to Do When Your Boss Is Spying on You

[photo1]Omar L. GallagaYou're not being paranoid. If you always feel like somebody's watching you, as the song goes, you're probably right. Especially if you're at work.Over the co...

81% of international flights into NYC had SARS-CoV-2 in waste, small trial finds

In a small trial, aircraft wastewater proved easy and useful for monitoring the SARS-CoV-2 variants touching down in the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

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Feb 2023

The Supreme Court Just Prevented One Of The Most High Stakes Encyclopedia Battles Ever From Happening

(Photo by Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images)Need to prove to your friend that earth worms are hermaphroditic? Wikipedia. Need to prove to a friend how absurd langua...

Data Privacy Is Now a Must-Hit US State of the Union Topic

[photo1]Lily Hay NewmanThe European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, enacted in 2018, provides far-from-perfect data privacy protection, but it stands in stark contrast to the legislative d...

The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat

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On the chilly, clear afternoon of February 24, 2022--the day Vladimir Putin's forces launched their full-scale invasion of Ukraine--a handful of Russian opposition poli...

Gonorrhea is becoming unstoppable; highly resistant cases found in US

The most highly drug-resistant cases of gonorrhea detected in the US to date appeared in two unrelated people in Massachusetts, state health officials announced Thursday.

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