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    Detained immigrants mustn’t use Facebook or view smut online, says UK gov

    Call my cynical, but perhaps the government is trying to cut detained immigrants off from support networks and resources that might help fight their immigration case.
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    News Corp lodges fresh antitrust complaint against Google in Europe

    There's similar provisions in some European countries. But this isn't a copyright complaint per se.
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    News Corp lodges fresh antitrust complaint against Google in Europe

    I don't think Google are intentionally excluding News Corp articles. More likely, News Corp articles are unlikely to be found when all the search engine can see is the headline. That's much less text that searches could match against compared to the full body text that Google get from...
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    Let us loop you in: What to expect from Apple’s March 21 event

    The MacBook Air will survive another year, unless the MacBook's price is significantly reduced. It's Apple's cheapest MacBook and very popular. To kill the product now would be shooting themselves in the foot.
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    Investigatory Powers Bill: Labour and SNP to abstain from parliamentary vote

    Shameful. Clearly, Labour and the SNP want these powers for themselves when they are in power, rather than taking the principled position and actually standing up for the individual.
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    Chinese government will ban foreign media from publishing online in China

    China recently unbanned video game consoles. But if I'm understanding this correctly, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft etc. wouldn't be able to provide online services or digital distribution? They have joint ventures, they're not Chinese companies.
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    UK government retreats on plans to water down the Freedom of Information Act

    Wasn't the expenses scandal revealed through the illegal leaking of information to the media? Nonetheless, I agree with you. Edit: Seems that there was both a FoIA request and an illegal leak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ki ... es_scandal
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    New Chrome for iOS is finally as fast and stable as Safari

    Unless something's changed, Windows RT and Windows Phone don't allow the APIs necessary for making a competing browser, as it only allows you to use WinRT and not Win32. Apple's not unique here.
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    New Chrome for iOS is finally as fast and stable as Safari

    Bookmark, tab and history syncing in Firefox for iOS is pretty neat. It means my awesomebar is the same on my laptop and my phone.
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    Jihadist tech magazine shows would-be terrorists how to avoid surveillance

    People mock paper, but the US government can't backdoor it, and you know only the person you've given it to has it. You can hide it in all sorts of places, too. So long as LE don't break down your door, you're fine. Even then, they might not find it.
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    Jihadist tech magazine shows would-be terrorists how to avoid surveillance

    You jest, but laser printers actually add tiny little yellow tracking dots to every page they print.
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    Australian government tells citizens to turn off two-factor authentication

    Steam also uses email for two-factor authentication (though maybe only for the default Steam Guard?), and Facebook asking for your phone number isn't entirely unreasonable, as it means you can recover your account should you lose the app.
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    BBC to machine-translate TV news into Japanese and Russian

    This could work out quite well. The kind of English used in BBC News articles isn't overly complicated, which aids machine translation. Inevitably there will be some mistakes, but humans are checking the translations over, so they shouldn't be too bad. On the other hand, Google Translate (and...
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    A review of the $10 Walmart phone—better than nothing, but not by much

    This device has better specs than the phone I got in 2013 for more than ten times that price: newer OS, more built-in storage, albeit with a worse screen. That phone was very much usable - I used it every day and did everything you'd expect to do on a smartphone, yet I imagine this Ars writer...
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    Amazon’s £50 Fire tablet: Suprisingly, it doesn’t suck

    The iPad is still 1024x768. Yes, it has the 'Retina Display' now, but that just doubled the DPI: the UI elements are the same visual size. What's improved is text legibility. It's strange for me to hear people complain of this being too low a resolution, given how long that was the gold...
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    Oculus Rift will cost over $350 so there are “no compromises,” says founder

    Samsung's Gear VR is cheap because all the fancy stuff's inside the phone. The thing you buy is merely lenses and one or two extra sensors to supplement what the phone itself has.
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    NeoKylin is the Linux OS China built to look like Windows XP

    If I was China, I'd pay people to work on ReactOS and use it.
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    "Your password must be at least 0 characters"... wait, what? (Windows 2003)

    This is an issue for a user on my server (Windows NT 4 Terminal Server). So it seems it's a bug that existed prior to 2003.
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    Tech-food startup can’t use the word “mayo” in its eggless “Just Mayo”

    There's legal standards as to what all kinds of foods are in the US and EU! It reduces ambiguity for consumers and producers, and prevents people putting things under misleading names.
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    UK surveillance “worse than 1984,” says new UN privacy chief

    I'm not relaxed and I don't want anyone to be. The UK is awful (and actively getting worse). I simply dispute the ridiculous notion that we're the worst in the free world, or even if we are, that we're some exceptionally bad case. The UK is not the sole member of the AUSCANNZUKUS alliance, for...