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The psychology of cancel culture: New study pinpoints key drivers
A recent study in Acta Psychologica reveals that political identity centrality increases the likelihood of engaging in cancel culture, mediated by social vigilantism and virtue signaling.
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Freenginx: A Fork of Nginx
The Freenginx Web server aims to recapture the spirit of open source development "for the public good," free from corporate control.
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Reddit is about to get a little less accessible
Many accessibility advocates are frustrated with Reddit.
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Reddit Is No Longer the "Weird" Social Media. It’s Also Not Quite Normal.
There’s the Reddit of ‘Dumb Money’ that prompted a major fiasco in the finance industry, and then there’s the Reddit of celebrity AMAs and refining your pedestrian Google searches. On today’s Reddit, you can have both.
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Yelp names and shames businesses paying for 5-star reviews
Plus: Amazon announced last week that two fake review brokers were arrested.
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YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan
YouTube’s Premium Lite subscription is going away.
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Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma
Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. Now, eligible users will be able
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The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance
With its market share hitting a new low, can Firefox rise from the ashes or is this the end?
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A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine
Researchers warn that most of the text we view online has been poorly translated into one or more languages—usually by a machine.
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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying
European Union Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders recently told German newspaper 'Welt am Sonntag' that the European Commission is aware of how annoying cookie consent banners have become...
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Drew Barrymore Was Catfished On Dating App, Man Claimed To Be NFL Player
Drew Barrymore might be an A-lister, but she isn't immune to the horrors of dating apps ... including getting tricked by people claiming/pretending to be someone else.
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Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox?
Could it have more to do with browser's ever-increasing irrelevance?
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At 35, the web is broken, but its inventor hasn't given up hope of fixing it yet
Back to the future: Sir Tim Berners-Lee thinks the rise of AI has made things worse than ever, but he continues to find solutions in the internet's earliest days.
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Cherry Is Shutting Down Its On-Demand Car Wash Service
Cherry, a startup that has been described as "Uber for car washes," is shutting down its service as of today, according to a statement from the company. Cherry says that it plans to "pursue an exciting opportunity that emerged while running Cherry."
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The pros and cons of newspaper paywalls
A comment about a Bloomberg story on the New York Times paywall started a debate about the positive and negative effects of paywalls that included some media industry luminaries such as the former CEO of Dow Jones and the former publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
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Netflix blames Christmas Eve outage on Amazon
Subscribers affected in Canada, U.S. and Latin America
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The Gift Of Online Privacy
Every month I see several birth announcements on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. I know exactly what moment the baby was born, what they looked like in sonogram photos, what their first food was, their favorite animal, who their siblings are, where they traveled on vacation, etc.
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Taxi app Hailo is raising $30M to take on Uber in NYC
Watch out Uber, the cab hailing app Hailo is hot on your heels in New York City.
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5 Lessons From the Instagram Debacle
Remember all the way back on Tuesday, when everyone and their artistically-filtered dog was freaking out about Instagram's new privacy policy?
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Expedia pays $632 million for majority stake in Trivago
Expedia plans to acquire a 61.6% equity position in Trivago, a German metasearch company for a total consideration of Euro 477 million ($632 million).
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