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How a lone grad student scooped the government—and what it means for your online privacy
A gifted computer scientist, Mayer suspected that online advertisers might be getting around browser settings that are designed to block tracking devices known as cookies. If his instinct…
Brief relief, long-term questions on student loans
Congress might have averted a doubling of interest rates on millions of new federal student loans, but the fix is only for a year, leaving students on edge…
YouTube develops a secret weapon against the web’s worst commenters
Long considered home to the worst commenters on the internet — racist, cruel, idiotic, nonsensical, and barely literate — YouTube is in the process of upgrading its comment…
Student loan bill gets vote in Congress before deadline
After being derided as a "do-nothing" Congress, the House and Senate were poised to vote on a massive legislative package that overhauls highway and transit programs, salvages an…
How college towns could lead the way to gigabit broadband
Until recently, America's major telecommunications firms always had plans on the drawing board for the next generation of internet connectivity. In the 1990s, when most people connected to…
Officers’ names can be released in UC Davis incident, judge rules
Siding with the Los Angeles Times and Sacramento Bee, an Alameda County Superior Court judge Tuesday ordered the release of the names of UC Davis police officers that…
Super Wi-Fi goes to college with new government effort
Google, Microsoft and more than 500 colleges and universities created a new partnership with the team behind the Gig.U project, with plans to bring broadband to rural America…
U-Va. board unanimously reinstates Teresa Sullivan as president
The University of Virginia governing board voted unanimously Tuesday to reinstate Teresa Sullivan as president, more than two weeks after board leaders had forced her to resign and…