happy mutants Googlers circulate petition demanding a moratorium on contracts with US border agencies Cory Doctorow

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amazon That big Amazon S3 outage was caused by a typo, company admits Xeni Jardin

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security Iphones secretly send your call history to Apple's cloud, even after you tell them not to Cory Doctorow

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