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In an unfortunate case of similar last names, Iyad El-Baghdadi, an anti-radicalization activist, was mistaken for the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, by Twitter users and a number of media outlets.

Internet policy in China is ‘a key component’ of the country’s political governing mechanism.

Twitter’s track record of punishing anyone who, say, dares to crack a joke at a feminist’s expense, while blithely allowing ISIS terrorists to recruit and advertise on its service, couldn’t be worse.

The New York Times doesn’t know when to quit. The paper recently published a long re-hash of a tired old video game-feminist argument: that there aren’t enough female characters in video games. The article recycles a number of unsubstantiated feminist myths,

He also believes that politicians have been given too much authority to govern medicine and technology without understanding either.

Last week, one of Buzzfeed’s four “senior technology reporters,” Joseph Bernstein, published a story about me and about the “nascent counterculture” everyone else already knows as cultural libertarianism but which is apparently new to Mr Bernstein and which he has

A leading cyber-security expert has observed and demonstrated multiple methods of credit card theft that are disturbing in their simplicity.

In these fear-struck times, shouting “Allah hu akhbar” on a plane is probably inadvisable. But what about toy planes that make similar sounds? A 3-year old in Whatcom County, Washington, was no doubt happy to receive a toy plane for Christmas. What

A male domestic abuse victim says he was blocked on Twitter by Vera Baird, the Police & Crime Commissioner for Northumbria, after he complained about the sexism of a police campaign that focused solely on female victims. The Northumbrian resident,

As drone sales soar, some insurance companies are quickly adapting their policies to exclude the unmanned aircraft.

If you’re registered to vote, you may be one of the more than 191 million U.S. citizens whose personal information was exposed through a misconfigured database that’s just been discovered.

The People’s Republic of China has passed a law that requires technology companies to comply with all government requests for information, up to and including handing over encryption keys.

Members of the online vigilante group Anonymous claim to have foiled an Islamic State terror attack on the nation of Italy.

Theranos, the embattled biotech company that has seen more than half its board members quit following a tsunami of negative media coverage, is now facing a new scandal.

In a Times of India post, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg compares his Free Basics pitch to public libraries, schools, and hospitals. Pay no attention to the fact that his latest humanitarian plan is intensely self-serving. Again.

CARE Norway, a feminist organisation, recently released a viral video on YouTube dubbed “Dear Daddy.” The video is a quintessential example of the politics of victimhood and the demonization of men. It repeats a number of feminist talking points, including the idea that being