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    Ransomware Hackers Paralyze Dozens of Towns and Businesses at Once by Targeting MSPs

    17 September, 2019

    Cybercriminals are zeroing in on the managed service providers that handle computer systems for local governments and medical clinics.

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    Renee Dudley
  • Technology & Science

    Stolen Fingerprints Could Spell the End of Biometric Security – Here’s How to Save It

    31 August, 2019

    Biometric security is the new thing, but there's a serious problem with it: you only have ten fingers. Chaminda Hewage writes.

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    Chaminda Hewage
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    Adblocking: How About Nah?

    2 August, 2019

    Imagine an internet without ads. That's what they don't want. Cory Doctorow writes.

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    Cory Doctorow
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    The Poli-Tricks of TL;DR: The Technical is Political

    16 July, 2019

    This post is an edited version of a keynote delivered by Nanjira Sambuli, Web Foundation Senior Policy Manager, at re:publica19 in Berlin. It was first published on Techpoint.africa. It’s increasingly evident that digitalisation has brought numerous benefits. From convenience and ease of communications, to easing movements of goods and services across the globe. But let’s take a trip down memory lane, to where…

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    Nanjira Sambuli
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    How Science and Genetics are Reshaping the Race Debate of the 21st Century

    16 May, 2019

    Vivian Chou writes.

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    Charles Noreaster
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    New Treatment for PKU Clears Brain Fog

    16 May, 2019

    For sufferers of "brain fog," a new combination of medicine and gene therapy promises to clear up the misunderstanding. Dr. Ricki Lewis writes.

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    Ricki Lewis
  • Technology & Science

    Censorship Cannot Be the Answer to Disinformation Online

    8 May, 2019

    Banning "fake news" does not solve misinformation, and only makes matters worse. From Jillian York and the crew at Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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    Jillian C. York
  • Technology & Science

    Thinking About Regulating the Online Space? Focus on Decentralizing Power

    4 May, 2019

    Juan Ortiz Freuler considers how to approach that thing lazily called "The Internet Problem" by decentralizing the power of tech giants.

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    Juan Ortiz Freuler
  • Technology & Science

    Google’s Sensorvault: Your “Whole Pattern of Life” — Delivered To The Police

    1 May, 2019

    Do you know where you were five years ago? Did you have an Android phone at the time? It turns out Google might know—and it might be telling law enforcement. In a new article, the New York Times details a little-known technique increasingly used by law enforcement to figure out everyone who might have been within certain geographic areas during…

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    Jennifer Lynch
  • Technology & Science

    DNA Day Has a New Meaning for Me This Year: I’m an NPE

    30 April, 2019

    In the hustle to monetize DNA testing, people forget that NPE can be a life-changing and devastating discovery. Dr. Ricki Lewis tells her own story.

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    Ricki Lewis
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