Today we're talking about A trusted, and totally fake, student loan expert Kazhakstan changes its alphabet BigCommerce raises a huge growth round Belgium makes “loot boxes” illegal Square acquires Weebly “Manipulated” blog posts on the Wayback Machine S

Today we're talking about Two new product launches from Google A giant ocean cleanup machine is about to set sail Why an e-waste recycler is heading to jail Medicare requires hospitals to post prices online Microsoft is giving away AI courses Apple star

Today we're talking about AI for fake news Dumbing down your smartphone Leveling up at tech companies How one engineer hated interviewing for jobs so much, he made an app An attack on Amazon's DNS service Patent review “death squads” Intercom launches a

This is Hacker Daily, for Tuesday, April 24th, 2018. Today we're covering, A device that can control your dreams Is now the perfect time for an RSS renaissance? Blockchain: what is it good for? The evolution of windmills Is Google the next company in th

This is Hacker Daily, for Monday, April 23rd, 2018. Today we're covering, Streaming HD video on a battery-free device Stripe Home and when to build vs. buy A journalism student finds out she won the top prize in her field, while she was in class Is your

This is Hacker Daily, for Friday, April 20th, 2018— Third-party trackers are abusing Facebook social login A former Reddit employee says he made the xworld a worse place The quest for the next billion-dollar color Google releases an app to teach people

In this episode: Mozilla releases a browser extension to wall off Facebook A new leather-like material made out of mushroom roots Oracle forces the takedown of an app for using the word “Javascript” An amateur mathematician tackles a decades-old graph t

t's Wednesday, April 17th, 2018, and here's your update: A canadian teenager is facing prison for downloading unsecured files from a Nova Scotia government website 10-year old Windows freeware makes a comeback Facebook explains what data they collect on

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Google loses a “right to be forgotten” case in the UK An Apple memo warning employees not to leak information was... leaked Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, and Google all object to a new Web specification, Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway... a