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How Gamergate Became A Template For Malicious Action Online An anonymous harassment campaign against women in video game development and journalism began five years ago. Eventually known as Gamergate, it became a template for malicious action online. Read more on NPR

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China Intercepts WeChat Texts From U.S. And Abroad, Researcher Says A cyber researcher says he found unsecured databases in China storing billions of conversations and user information from the app. NPR spoke to U.S. citizens who say their messages were blocked. Read more on NPR

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The Scientific Debate Over Teens, Screens And Mental Health What's the link between smartphone use and teens' mental health? Experts disagree, with some arguing that the threat is overblown. Read more on NPR

French Wine Gets Caught Up In France's New Tax On Big Tech At the G7 Summit, President Trump declined to say if he had backed down from his threat to place tariffs on French wine in retaliation for that country's new tax on digital giants. Read more on NPR

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Privacy Experts Say The Trade-Offs Of Tech To Track Kids In School Aren't Worth It The use of tech to track and police our kids in school is growing and privacy experts say the trade-offs aren't worth it. Read more on NPR

Congress Mulls Ban On Chinese Trains And Buses. Oh, Come On, Builder Says A bill would curtail cities' ability to buy transit equipment on economic and national security grounds. The manufacturer says it's all hysteria — plus there are no U.S. builders anyway. Read more on NPR

Robots Compete In Disaster Test Robotics teams from all over the country compete in Pennsylvania in the Subterranean Challenge to see whose robot performs best in a simulated mine disaster scenario. Read more on NPR

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Putin To Russian Military: 'Prepare A Symmetrical Response' To U.S. Missile Test His remarks come after a U.S. Defense Department test of a modified Navy Tomahawk cruise missile, and the demise of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between Washington and Moscow. Read more on NPR

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YouTube Channels Suspended For 'Coordinated' Influence Campaign Against Hong Kong The announcement by Google, which owns YouTube, comes days after Facebook and Twitter suspended accounts for an alleged campaign to manipulate public opinion about Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests. Read more on NPR

Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To Combat Robocalls In the plan, service providers will provide technology to combat a practice known as "spoofing" to aid state attorneys general in locating and prosecuting the fraudulent robocallers. Read more on NPR

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How Dr. Kenneth Davis Turned the Mount Sinai Health System Around The neurobiologist oversaw one of the largest financial turnarounds in academic medicine. Read more on NPR

Craig From Craigslist Talks Philanthropy, The Election and More What's the self-proclaimed "nerd" up to these days? And what will he be up to in the near future? Read more on NPR

Face Recognition Lets Palestinians Cross Israeli Checkposts Fast, But Raises Concerns Israel has begun using the technology at its West Bank checkpoints to verify Palestinians' identities as they cross into Israel. The new system means shorter wait times but is drawing criticism. Read more on NPR

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YouTuber Marques Brownlee Talks Ten Years of Tech The 25-year-old has gone from posting tech reviews in his childhood home to interviewing Tesla's Elon Musk. Read more on NPR

What Can Be Done To Fight Back Against Ransomware Attacks NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Josephine Wolff, a professor at Tufts University, about software that is available to help ransomware victims recover their files and why it is rarely used in the U.S. Read more on NPR

More U.S. Towns Are Feeling The Pinch As Recycling Becomes Costlier The U.S. recycling industry is facing a quandary: Too much of the plastic we use can't be recycled, and taxpayers increasingly are on the hook for paying for all that trash to hit the landfills. Read more on NPR

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How A Tip — And Facial Recognition Technology — Helped The FBI Catch A Killer Even as civil libertarians warn about the increased use of facial recognition by federal authorities, the bureau is using it to track down some of its most wanted suspects. Read more on NPR

Twitter And Facebook Shut Down Fake Propaganda Accounts Run By Chinese Government NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Adam Segal, at the Council on Foreign Relations, about Facebook and Twitter shutting down hundreds of fake accounts run by the Chinese government. Read more on NPR

By STEVE LOHR from NYT Technology via New York Times

Opinion: Ironic, Informal And Expressive, 'New Rules Of Language' Evolve Online A lively new book by Gretchen McCulloch dissects the common vernacular that forms the cornerstone of online communication. Because Internet parses emojis, lols and punctuation — or lack thereof. Read more on NPR

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23 Texas Towns Hit With Ransomware Attack In 'New Front' Of Cyberassault Investigators haven't identified who or what is behind the attack that took systems offline, but the Texas Department of Information Resources says the evidence points to "one single threat actor." Read more on NPR

How China Uses Twitter And Facebook To Share Disinformation About Hong Kong Russia gets most of the attention when it comes to malicious use of social media by state actors. The protests in Hong Kong have made clear China is using the same playbook. Read more on NPR

Hong Kong Protests: China Accused Of Using Fake Social Media Accounts Facebook and Twitter have suspended accounts associated with the Chinese government, accusing officials of using those accounts to spread disinformation to disrupt the Hong Kong protests. Read more on NPR

Employees Demand Google Publicly Commit To Not Work With ICE The petition by more than a thousand Google employees is forcing the tech giant's hand at a time when it is risky for Silicon Valley to criticize the Trump administration. Read more on NPR

Employees Demand Google Publicly Commit To Not Working With ICE More than a thousand Google employees are demanding that the company commit publicly to not work with U.S. immigration enforcement agencies — including the Border Patrol and ICE. Read more on NPR

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New Research Casts Doubt On Connection Between Smartphone Use And Teen Mental Health New research casts doubt on the connection between smartphone use and teens' mental health. Some argue it is a case of correlation, not causation, and that the threat is overblown. Read more on NPR

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The End Is Nigh For FogCam, Billed As The Internet's Oldest Running Webcam The webcam at San Francisco State University has been in operation since 1994. Now, its creators say they plan to sunset the Internet landmark by the end of the month. Read more on NPR

U.S. Gives Huawei Another 90-Day Reprieve Amid Concerns Of Rural Service Disruptions Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the decision was made in part to minimize disruption in parts of America that rely heavily on Huawei's equipment to serve remote areas. Read more on NPR

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Got Pain? A Virtual Swim With Dolphins May Help Melt It Away A recent study found virtual reality experiences were better at easing pain than watching televised nature scenes. Immersive distraction seems key to the success, scientists say. Read more on NPR

Trolled Online, Women In Politics Fight To Hold Big Tech Accountable In The U.K. The move in Europe to get tough on tech is partly thanks to an awakening that began with the experiences of women in politics. Read more on NPR

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This App Aims To Save New Moms' Lives The startup Mahmee hopes to help OB-GYNs, pediatricians and other health providers closely monitor a mother and baby's health so that any red flags can be assessed before they become life-threatening. Read more on NPR

Writer Joanna Schroeder On Preventing Teenage Boys From Turning To Hate White teenage boys are being exposed via social media to groups peddling hate. NPR's Scott Simon asks Joanna Schroeder how she talks to her kids about what they encounter online. Read more on NPR

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These Experimental Shorts Are An 'Exosuit' That Boosts Endurance On The Trail No ordinary pair of shorts, these were designed by Harvard scientists to work with the wearer's own leg muscles when walking or running, and might make a soldier's heavy loads easier to carry. Read more on NPR

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Computer Science Professors Says We Can Probably Make Email Better For Everyone NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Cal Newport, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University, about why people are rethinking the usefulness of email for effective work flow. Read more on NPR

By VINDU GOEL, KARAN DEEP SINGH and SAMEER YASIR from NYT Technology via New York Times

A Deadly Explosion In Russia Causes International Alarm U.S. intelligence officials believe that a nuclear malfunction was behind the deadly blast. Read more on NPR

Senator Pushes Bill To Curb 'Exploitative And Addictive' Social Media Practices The legislation by a freshman Republican senator would prohibit features like auto-play and infinite scrolling, used by social media companies to keep users on their platform longer. Read more on NPR

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U.S. Air Regulators Ban MacBook Pros With Recalled Batteries From Flights In June, Apple recalled MacBook Pro laptops sold between September 2015 and February 2017 due to batteries that posed a fire risk. Read more on NPR

Hooked On The Internet, South Korean Teens Go Into Digital Detox Online gaming and other digital activities cause problems in people's health, relationships and studies. Government centers treat teen boys and girls who struggle to cut down on use of tech devices. Read more on NPR

Is Our Economy In The Upside Down? Ten years after the financial crisis, it's like we're in another economic dimension. The old rules don't apply. Textbooks are being thrown out the window. It's time to talk about secular stagnation. Read more on NPR

What Parents May Not Realize When They Post About Their Kids Online Some say kids have a right to privacy online — and parents pose the greatest danger of violating that right. Read more on NPR

By KEVIN ROOSE from NYT Technology via New York Times

With So Many Startups Growing Into Unicorns, Can They Still Be Magical? Six years ago, "unicorn" became the name for startup tech companies valued at $1 billion or more. At the time, only 39 companies had earned the title. Since then, the club has grown to 484 members. Read more on NPR

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Troll Watch: Trending Hashtags NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Emily Stewart. Read more on NPR

Election Security Tested At Def Con Thousands of hackers are gathered this weekend for the Def Con conference in Las Vegas. On their list of things to hack: voting equipment. Read more on NPR

With Congressional Blessing, Space Force Is Closer To Launch It started as a joke, as President Trump riffed on the idea last year. Now, Congress could create the first, new military service in more than 70 years. Read more on NPR

Inside Saudi Arabia's Disinformation Campaign A new investigation finds that Saudi Arabia is behind a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting its enemies. NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks to the report's researcher of Bellingcat. Read more on NPR

A Look At The E-Verify Program And Its Blind Spots At least four of the poultry processing plants ICE raided this week claimed to use E-Verify to vet workers. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with economist Madeline Zavodny about how well E-Verify's works. Read more on NPR

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Election Security At Def Con The Def Con conference was once focused on hacker culture. But as election security has become a major focus, the conference is now filled with officials eager to work with the hacking community. Read more on NPR

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Users Can Sue Facebook Over Facial Recognition Software, Court Rules A federal court said Facebook users in Illinois can sue the company over face recognition technology. Facebook said users can choose to turn off the feature. It plans to seek a review of the ruling. Read more on NPR

By KATE CONGER from NYT Technology via New York Times

A World Without Water A quarter of the world's population is at high risk of running out of water. Read more on NPR

Covering The Threat Of White Supremacy The El Paso gunman posted a racist manifesto on 8chan. How can media cover the threat of white supremacy without normalizing it? Read more on NPR

Government Deadline Approaches To Ban Chinese-Made Surveillance Cameras There are thousands of Chinese-made surveillance cameras in government buildings across the United States. Congress is banning them Aug. 13, but it's unclear how that will be carried out. Read more on NPR

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