FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting

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FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting ftc.gov \| points: 1310 \| comments: 315

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SQLite 3 Fiddle sqlite.org \| points: 561 \| comments: 90

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Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor falstad.com \| points: 537 \| comments: 131

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Broadcom to Acquire VMware for $61B reuters.com \| points: 471 \| comments: 322

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Show HN: I turned my face rec system into a video codec vertigo.ai \| points: 460 \| comments: 137

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Implementation of Imagen, Google’s text-to-image neural network, in PyTorch github.com \| points: 342 \| comments: 105

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Which dinosaurs lived in your hometown? dinosaurpictures.org \| points: 281 \| comments: 77

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Security Vulnerability in Tor Browser darknetlive.com \| points: 280 \| comments: 137

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Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov \| points: 269 \| comments: 1533

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What Happened to Perl 7? blogs.perl.org \| points: 227 \| comments: 213

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Minikube quickly sets up a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows minikube.sigs.k8s.io \| points: 186 \| comments: 129

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Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon nature.com \| points: 158 \| comments: 61

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The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn forbes.com \| points: 136 \| comments: 97

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Why We Switched from Python to Go (2021) softwareengineeringdaily.com \| points: 135 \| comments: 239

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