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Senators press for more on SolarWinds hack after AP report

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<p>Key lawmakers said Tuesday they're concerned they've been kept in the dark about what suspected Russian hackers stole from the federal government and they...

Lawmakers call YouTube Kids a ‘wasteland of vapid’ content

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A House subcommittee is investigating YouTube Kids, saying the Google-owned video feeds children inappropriate material in “a wasteland of vapid, consumerist content" so it...

New Hampshire teen saves West Virginia boy via TikTok

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<p>GILMANTON, N.H. &mdash; A New Hampshire teen has been credited with saving a boy more than 800 miles (1,290 kilometers) away — thanks to...

Consumer privacy push in Florida limps forward

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Big Data won a key concession from Florida lawmakers Tuesday when it persuaded a legislative committee to defang a proposal advertised...

Facebook removes accounts tied to Iranian exile group

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SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said Tuesday it has removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to an Iranian exile group and a troll farm in...

Groups: Census privacy tool could hurt voting rights goals

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<p>ORLANDO, Fla. &mdash; <a href="https://apnews.com/article/88307905204e4d5aaad10db486514ccb">A new method</a> being used for the first time by the U.S. Census Bureau to protect people's privacy in 2020...

GameStop finally announces a share sale

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Two months after a market phenomenon took shares of GameStop to the moon, the video game retailer said Monday that it will sell up...

Twitter slowdown in Russia until mid-May; no block for now

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MOSCOW — Russian authorities said Monday they would continue to slow down Twitter until mid-May, but wouldn't block the social media platform for now...

Twitter mistakenly suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene, again

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was briefly suspended from Twitter Sunday in what the company said was an error — its second...

Groups: Census privacy tool could hurt voting rights goals

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ORLANDO, Fla. — A new method being used for the first time by the U.S. Census Bureau to protect people's privacy in 2020 census...