FBI’s Playpen operation is an investigation into child abuse imagery being shared via Tor. So, why such a lenient sentence?

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It won’t necessarily translate into big trouble for Uber. But it might: after all, the FTC’s interest recently cost the company $20m.

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The U.S. Department of Energy will be investing $258 million to help six leading technology firms — AMD, Cray Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel, and Nvidia — research and build exascale supercomputers. Digital Trends reports: The funding will be…

A Canadian expedition to study climate change in the Arctic has been canceled due to climate change. Specifically, the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen had to be cancelled “due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice,” reports…

The federal government will finally stop preparing for the Y2K bug, seventeen years after it came and went. Yes, you read that right. Bloomberg reports: The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal…

InfiniteZero shares a report from Phys.Org: Did our sun have a twin when it was born 4.5 billion years ago? Almost certainly yes — though not an identical twin. And so did every other sun-like star in the universe, according…