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r/technology 12h ago

Privacy We're the researchers from Mozilla Foundation that researched the privacy of 32 popular mental health apps. Hint: There's a lot of bad. Ask us anything over at r/IAmaA!

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r/technology 8h ago Gold Take My Energy

Social Media Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests

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r/technology 6h ago

Biotechnology Scientists Hacked Human Cells to Make Insulin, And It Reversed Diabetes in Mice

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r/technology 18h ago Gold All-Seeing Upvote Ally To The Stars Helpful (Pro) Plus One Silver Take My Energy Faith In Humanity Restored Facepalm

Social Media Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps | App developers have said next month’s changes to Reddit’s API pricing could make their apps unsustainable. Now, dozens of the site’s biggest subreddits plan to go private for two days in protest.

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r/technology 11h ago

Hardware Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset is finally here

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r/technology 5h ago

Privacy FTC Says Ring Employees Illegally Surveilled Customers, Failed to Stop Hackers from Taking Control of Users' Cameras

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r/technology 11h ago

Hardware It’s official: Apple announces AR device due to next year. Apple Vision Pro starts at US$3,499

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r/technology 4h ago

Security A Confession Exposes India’s Secret Hacking Industry | The country has developed a lucrative specialty: cyberattacks for hire

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r/technology 17h ago

Energy Switzerland is installing solar panels in the gap between train tracks

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r/technology 1d ago Bravo Grande! Wholesome Seal of Approval

Society Parents in a town in Ireland came together to voluntarily ban smartphones for kids as old as 13

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r/technology 19h ago

Artificial Intelligence Content writer says all of his clients replaced him with ChatGPT: 'It wiped me out'

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r/technology 4h ago

Artificial Intelligence Stack Overflow Moderators Are Striking to Stop Garbage AI Content From Flooding the Site

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r/technology 12h ago

Robotics/Automation Robot Pizza Startup Shuts Down After Cheese Kept Sliding Off

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r/technology 1h ago

Social Media The top 2 posts on /r/technology is about the Reddit blackout supporting protests on 3rd party API pricing. Is /r/technology going to join the blackout?

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r/technology 3h ago

Crypto S.E.C. Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying to Regulators

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r/technology 5h ago

Business Microsoft to pay $20 million FTC settlement over improperly storing Xbox account data for kids

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r/technology 3h ago

Society I am a blind software developer. And I want to make software development accessible for all

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r/technology 8h ago

Social Media Statement: Reddit's defenses of changes that could kill third-party apps

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r/technology 1h ago

Hardware France to invest nearly €3 billion in semiconductor factory to boost local production

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r/technology 1d ago

Social Media More than 2,000 families suing social media companies over kids' mental health

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r/technology 19h ago

Security Google removes 32 malicious Chrome extensions with 75 million installs from the Web Store

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r/technology 15h ago

Society Nearly 5,000 early-career researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) filed to form a union

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r/technology 18h ago

Software Linux hits a multi-year high for user share on Steam thanks to Steam Deck

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r/technology 21h ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.: Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones.

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r/technology 4h ago

Robotics/Automation New robotics job field may be coming to the US Marine Corps

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r/technology 1d ago

Nanotech/Materials Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum

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