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Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 18 September 2020

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Campaigners have sent an open letter to Google, Facebook, YouTube, and other technology giants, demanding the closure of tailored advertising systems that target children.

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The open letter^[1], coordinated by Global Action Plan (GAP

Read more: Campaigners demand Google, Facebook, YouTube stop targeting ads at under 18s

Written by: InfoWorld

Category: News

Published: 18 September 2020

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Read more: What’s new in Microsoft Visual Studio Code 1.49

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 18 September 2020

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Regardless of where in the country you live, the role of city mayors has never been more in the spotlight. As national politicians flounder, much of the task of leading American cities...

Read more: 98% of mayors surveyed believe this disheartening projection

Written by: Joomla!

Category: News

Published: 18 September 2020

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Read more: Joomla 4 Beta 4 and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 2 are here: test them now!

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 18 September 2020

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GitHub has released GitHub CLI 1.0^[1], a command-line tool that lets developers create and check on pull requests and issues from the terminal. 

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GitHub released CLI in beta this February^[2] for GitHub

Read more: Microsoft's GitHub: CLI 1.0 is out, so you can now do GitHub tasks from the terminal

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 18 September 2020

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From cute cat videos to sourdough bread recipes: sometimes, it feels like the algorithm behind YouTube's "Up Next" section knows the user better than the user knows themselves.

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Often, that same algorithm leads the viewer down a

Read more: Mozilla wants to understand your weird YouTube recommendations

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 18 September 2020

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Aussie Broadband has seen strong demand with around 5.5% of its customer base jumping onto the 1Gbps plans^[1] the ISP began to offer in May.

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Read more: Aussie Broadband chief sees a path for 1Gbps to be available to half the NBN

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 18 September 2020

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Cloudflare and Internet Archive have joined forces to archive more of the public web, touting it would make the web more reliable.

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As part of this joint

Read more: Cloudflare and Internet Archive team up to make sure websites never fully go offline

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 18 September 2020

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The US government has imposed sanctions today on a front company that hid a massive hacking operation perpetrated by the Iranian government against its own citizens, foreign companies, and governments abroad.

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Read more: US sanctions Iranian government front company hiding major hacking operations