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1. Bernie Sanders’ Broadband Plan Is Comcast’s Worst Nightmare

   Sanders promises to break up media monopolies, restore net neutrality, and embrace the countless towns and cities that are building their own broadband networks.

2. How Ring Transmits Fear to American Suburbs

   Why do we surveil ourselves?

3. Deepfake Porn Is Evolving to Give People Total Control Over Women's Bodies

   People are creating a new kind of nonconsensual pornography by combining deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated to do whatever they want.

4. Scams Are Killing the Phone Call

   As North American governments struggle to fight it, the robocall epidemic could already be changing how we use our phones. If you've stopped picking up, you're not alone.

5. Scientists Fed an Ancient Earth Organism Space Metals. It Started 'Dancing'

   Extremophiles are models for early life on Earth, and we just discovered that one in particular thrives on material from off-world.

6. Ajit Pai Says FCC's Investigation into Sale of Phone Location Data Nearly Complete

   Motherboard previously revealed how AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon have sold real-time phone location data to middlemen companies which then provided it to third parties.

7. Telegram Deplatforming ISIS Has Given Them Something to Fight For

   Deplatforming terrorists from messaging apps may damage existing networks, but those who remain often double down in their beliefs.

8. Amazon Allegedly Fired and Blacklisted a Worker for Using Medical Cannabis

   Amazon fired a warehouse worker for using prescription medical cannabis off the job then blacklisted him from Whole Foods, lawsuit says.

9. UK Government Releases Photos of Russian Hackers, Whose Lives Look Awesome

   Authorities indicted alleged members of Evil Corp, a high profile cybercrime group.

10. The Blood Pipe Is Still Spewing Blood After Nearly Two Years

    Newly-obtained footage shows the underwater fish farm pipe in British Columbia is still churning out virus-infected blood and guts.