Kevin T. Dugan

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  • Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., listens during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Zuckerberg put on his game face to convince a skeptical Congress that his company’s ambitious plans for a cryptocurrency will benefit millions of poor and underbanked people around the world, and that the technology behind it should be developed by an American firm or risk being one-upped by China, which doesn’t share the same values as the U.S. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNewsletters

    Facebook wants to be The Matrix

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  • TOPSHOT &#8211; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC.<br /> Zuckerberg offered apologies to US lawmakers Tuesday as he made a long-awaited appearance in a congressional hearing on the hijacking of personal data on millions of users. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)Newsletters

    Why we’re so afraid of Facebook

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  • Former president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Sunday, July 11, 2021, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)Newsletters

    Trump takes on all of Silicon Valley — by copying it

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  • Mobile phone with Robinhood logoNewsletters

    The warning hidden in the ‘meme stock’ report

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  • HONG KONG &#8211; 2019/04/06: In this photo illustration a business and employment oriented network and platform LinkedIn logo is seen on an Android mobile device with People&#8217;s Republic of China flag in the background. (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Newsletters

    Microsoft deletes its LinkedIn profile in China

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  • Why A.I. and cybersecurity are more similar than you might thinkNewsletters

    The CIA’s venture capital firm has been busy lately

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  • Computer hacker silhouette. Green binary code backgroundNewsletters

    The DOJ wants you to admit your cybersecurity problem

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  • Frances Haugen, Facebook whistleblower, speaks during a Senate subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 5, 2021. Haugen, who turned over internal company documents to U.S. securities regulators, is set to share her story publicly in Congress, planning to testify that the company misled the public and shareholders about the harmful effects of its platforms.Newsletters

    Whistleblowers run Silicon Valley now

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  • WASHINGTON, USA &#8211; APRIL 11: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the second day of testimony before Congress by Zuckerberg, 33, after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign.Newsletters

    Facebook may have finally gone too far

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    Firefighters enlist high-tech tools to stave off the West’s increasingly destructive blazes

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  • Instagram logo displayed on a phone screen and Facebook logo displayed on a laptop screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on August 21, 2021. (Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Newsletters

    3 questions for Facebook ahead of its Senate hearing

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  • U.S. President Biden at European Union Leaders SummitNewsletters

    Regulators have Big Tech in a corner

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  • UKRAINE &#8211; 2021/06/07: In this photo illustration the Apple CEO Tim Cook is seen on a mobile phone screen during an Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino, California, US, in front of Apple logo in the background.<br /> Apple has started its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), an information technology conference, where it presented the iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS 12 and watchOS 8. WWDC 2021 is being held from June 7 to June 11, 2021 as an online-only conference, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Newsletters

    Tim Cook wants a look inside your brain

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  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, carrying non-professional astronauts, launches from NASAs Kennedy Space Center launchpad 39A during the Inspiration4 mission in Merritt Island, Florida, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. A SpaceX rocket is set to launch four civilians into orbit for a three-day voyage circling the Earth, a new milestone in Elon Musk&#8217;s quest to send everyday people to the cosmos, eventually establishing a colony on Mars.Newsletters

    What billionaire space racers can learn from Norm MacDonald

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  • The thumbs up logo outside of the Facebook Inc. headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Facebook converted part of its headquarters into a vaccination clinic for under-served communities. Nina Riggio—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesNewsletters

    What Facebook is hiding from us

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