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Twitter on Tuesday announced the formation of a panel to advise it on speech, abuse and safety issues The Trust & Safety Council, which has more than 40 members, will be part of a new strategy to ensure that people can feel safe when they express themselves on Twitter, said Patricia Cartes, head of global policy outreach....

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that takes you by the hand and leads you by candlelight through the dark maze of gadget announcements to find the jewels at the center ...

It has been fun watching the rapid improvement of the marketing function over the last decade. The advance was in no small part due to the advances in marketing automation, and the marketing revolution is not over by a long shot However, I think we're bumping up against a ceiling, and the improvements we can expect that make marketing faster will p...

CNIL, France's data protection authority, on Monday formally gave Facebook three months notice to comply with the French Data Protection Act A working group comprised of regulators from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and the German province of Hamburg recommended the action....

The Pirate Bay may be vying to become the world's largest streaming site. It recently began testing a plug-in that turns browsers into torrent-streaming clients Having returned from its latest exile, The Pirate Bay now is using the Torrents Time plugin to deliver an illegal answer to Netflix. With the plugin installed on a Mac or PC, users can clic...

TheRosa Desktop Fresh R series optimizes desktop usage and targets advanced users and enthusiasts looking for rich functionality. Add to that mix the default KDE flavoring and you have a compelling Linux distro that challenges your first-choice OS....

Amazon last week added Uber calling, Spotify listening and Domino's pizza ordering to its growing list of functions available to Echo's voice-activated speakers and Alexa software Users need only to ask Alexa to call an Uber or an UberX, which is one of the various levels of the Uber private car service, to get a ride....

India'sTelecom Regulatory Authority on Monday ruled in favor of Net neutrality, effectively banning Facebook's Free Basics Internet access app "This is a very important decision for the future of the Internet in India," said Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School'sCenter for Internet and Society, whosepaper the TRA cited in its rulin...

The U.S. departments ofJustice andHomeland Security on Monday announced they were investigating reports that a hacker broke into government computer systems and stole sensitive information about employees at the agencies The hacker posted stolen information for about 9,000 DHS employees online Sunday and made public data on 20,000 FBI employees Mon...

Twitter plans to introduce an algorithmic timeline, possibly this week, Buzzfeed News reported last week The algorithm reportedly would organize tweets based on relevancy....

Through an eleventh-hour maneuver, the United States and the European Union last week avoided action that could have choked the movement of data between the regions and caused financial harm to U.S. companies It may be only a temporary respite, however....

More than half of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of the Internet of Things by 2020, according to Gartner. That means that every piece of software that supports those business processes and systems must be redesigned to accommodate the requirements of the rapidly evolving IoT market Nearly every major independ...

The Internet Archive on Friday cut the ribbon on its online Malware Museum, an online compendium of malware programs computer users in the 1980s and 1990s sometimes encountered Everything old is new again, so the saying goes, and apparently that retro fascination applies to computer viruses. The museum presents examples of the viruses, complete wit...

LinkedIn last week lost about $11 billion in market valuation after it provided a 2016 revenue forecast that fell short of analysts' expectations The company's stock fell by as much as 44 percent Friday afternoon, with shares hitting a three-year-low of $108. The stock was trading slightly lower, around $107, by mid-day Monday....

Keybase last week announced the alpha release of the Keybase app for the iPhone with a cryptographically secure file mount Users can write data in an automatically created folder in this format: /keybase/public/username. Files written in the folder are signed automatically and appear as plain text files on computers....

The U.S. government was shaken last year when theOffice of Personnel Management disclosed that employment records affecting 21.5 million people had been breached. The Obama administration acted quickly and initiated several comprehensive actions designed to shore up federal data protection -- including an immediate 30-day cybersecurity sprint A par...

I attended IBM Connect last week, where I checked out one of the most interesting products you've likely never heard of -- a new email offering called "IBM Verse." While there was a lot of discussion about how it better integrated social networking, what really intrigued me was the idea of putting cognitive computing inside an email client. "Cogn...

Google this week reportedly pulled one mobile ad blocker from the Google Play store and prevented another from being updated The moves come on the heels ofSamsung's announcement this week that it was opening up its mobile Web browser to ad blockers....

Canonical on Thursday launched the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet, in partnership withBQ. The tablet is the first fully converged Ubuntu device, the company said It will ship with the latest Ubuntu software and is the first tablet with the Ubuntu operating system, Canonical said....

Intel this week released a new report showing some major improvements and continued challenges in its effort to achieve workforce diversity, and challenged rival companies to show their cards The report comes a year after Intel CEO Brian Krzanich pledged to make improvements amid a sea of criticism about the industry's domination by young white mal...