All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Uranium Is Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water, Study Finds
Some of the U.S. drinking water supply contains unsafe levels of uranium, new research out Wednesday shows. The study analysed data from the Environmental Protection Agency on drinking water systems across the country and found that uranium was frequently detected during compliance testing, and that a small percentage of systems are estimated to contain levels…
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One Weird Trick for Fossil Fuel Companies to Actually Do Something Right
This week’s IPCC report laid out in no uncertain terms how little time we have left to get our act together to prevent disastrous global warming. Hidden inside the dense report is a challenge for, of all industries, fossil fuel producers: Step up your game on methane.
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Hacker Takes Over Drake, Eminem, and Justin Bieber’s YouTube Channels
“We just hacked Travis Scott,” a Twitter account under the name of Los Pelaos announced in Spanish on Tuesday at 3:37 a.m.
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Twitter Bans State Media’s War Prisoner Pics Because of the Geneva Convention
Twitter announced Tuesday that it would ban content featuring prisoners of war from government and state-affiliated media organisations amid the online information war between Russia and Ukraine playing out on its platform. The company said it social network would no longer amplify or recommend government accounts from Russia.