Fake news: Mozilla joins the fight to stop it polluting the web

How much responsibility do we bear for our own media literacy, and how much effort should firms like Mozilla, Google, Snopes, Facebook and others put into tackling fake news?

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Hacking nuclear submarines – how likely is the nightmare scenario?

Nuclear submarines run on Windows XP - but is that the ships' weakest point?

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How to hack a Jeep Cherokee – but don’t try this at home, kids

Carmakers are going to have to get much better at securing their vehicles now that the researchers who demonstrated how to hack a Cherokee Jeep added their notes to the tools already online

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Internet routing weakness could cost Bitcoin users

A flaw in the underlying design of the Internet could be very expensive for Bitcoin users, researchers find.

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Mastodon: new beast to challenge Big Social, or another white elephant?

Another big social network - this time, Twitter - has another new challenger, with some interesting features. But the history of the web is littered with the corpses of failed social media challengers

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China mulls national cryptocurrency in race to digital money

Governments getting involved in cryptocurrencies is a tricky line to walk - so is China doing the right thing give its fraught history with Bitcoin users?

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Say goodbye to enhanced data privacy, US web surfers

US government halts ruling aimed at giving users control over who has access to their data

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Man sues Uber after privacy flaws ‘led to his divorce’

French plaintiff alleges that a flaw meant his wife was alerted to trips pointing to his affair despite him signing out of his account on a shared smartphone

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The trouble with online porn: it’s impossible to block

Finding ways to restrict access to harmful material while respecting the right of adults to watch consensual porn is proving more difficult than politicians around the world would like

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Yahoo wants to spy on you through advertising billboards

Yahoo has filed a patent for a billboard that would spy on the people watching it in a bid to tailor the ads that it shows.

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