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Technology Unknown hackers leak 16 billion login credentials in major breach Ellsworth Toohey

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politics Lost and confused Trump can't find the woman sitting next to him Jason Weisberger

politics As expected, Trump dumps Mark Robinson Jason Weisberger

half-eaten bananas Italy's far-right Prime Minister dumps her boyfriend to distance herself from his constant sexist comments Rob Beschizza

twitter Microsoft dumps Twitter, Musk threatens lawsuit Mark Frauenfelder

animation MeatCanyon takes on Mr. Beast's "blindness controversy" in a new video Devin Nealy

twitter Twitter's ad manager volume activity fell 85% in November Mark Frauenfelder

tesla Tesla is on the way to becoming the MyPillow of cars Jason Weisberger

batman Warner Brothers want to call a mulligan on the DC Comics cinematic universe Devin Nealy

memes Memes as pop-up cards Rusty Blazenhoff

racism New ProPublica investigation reveals racist environmental "sacrifice zones" Thom Dunn

trump Madame Tussauds in Berlin added a dumpster to their Trump display Andrea James

privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

facial recognition NIST confirms that facial recognition is a racist, sexist dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow

facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow

Business "Out of Home Advertising": the billboards that spy on you as you move through public spaces Cory Doctorow