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Survey: the percentage of US adults using the internet (89%), smartphones (77%), and social media (6 pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018…

Microsoft Azure threatened to block microblogging site Gab.ai if two posts from a neo-Nazi were not thehill.com/policy/technol…

Microsoft Azure threatened to block microblogging site Gab.ai if two posts from a neo-Nazi were not thehill.com/policy/technol…

Instapaper returns to EU users after being unavailable since May 24 for GDPR compliance and relaunch blog.instapaper.com/post/176732408…

In the past few months CryptoKitties saw sharp drop in daily active users, number of transactions, a businessinsider.com/cryptokitties-…

There has been a bubble in adtech, a bloated industry that undermines brands' value and remains at o blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12…

Former Facebook, Google, Reddit execs, and other prominent technologists describe how Silicon Valley nymag.com/selectall/2018…

Eurocontrol says a failure of its air traffic management software, the second in 20 years, is now fi bbc.com/news/world-eur…

Investigation shows IBM flouted US laws against age discrimination and estimates the company elimina features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-di…

Enterprise productivity firm Airtable raises $52M Series B led by Caffeinated Capital and CRV; Airta businessinsider.com/airtable-ceo-h…

London-based startup Blue Vision Labs, which helps developers build collaborative AR apps, raises $1 techcrunch.com/2018/03/15/blu…

Lyft says it surpassed $1B in revenue for fiscal '17; Q4 revenue up 168% YoY vs Uber's 61% YoY rise; techcrunch.com/2018/03/12/lyf…

Facebook complies with demand of Russia's internet censor to remove video by opposition activist Ale bbc.com/news/technolog…

Skype update installer found to be susceptible to DLL hijacking, potentially giving system-level pri zdnet.com/article/skype-…

Maersk says NonPetya ransomware attack required an almost complete infrastructure overhaul, reinstal zdnet.com/article/maersk…

EU fines Qualcomm €997M for abusing market dominance, says it paid Apple to buy LTE baseband ch europa.eu/rapid/press-re…

Montana governor signs executive order barring data discrimination, the first such attempt by any st thehill.com/policy/technol…

Report: Bitcoin mining is so profitable in China that miners will make money as long as bitcoin is w bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Researchers discover vulnerabilities in most Intel chips and some ARM chips, named "Meltdown" and "S zdnet.com/article/securi…

Survey: for first time more founders say sales leaders, not engineers, are hardest to hire; 53% say stateofstartups.firstround.com/2017/