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1.

Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired (news.cnet.com)

1120 points by rbanffy 2011-11-10 | 370 comments

2.

NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants (news.cnet.com)

834 points by declan 2013-06-15 | 389 comments

3.

Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008) (news.cnet.com)

592 points by bconway 2013-06-07 | 299 comments

4.

Google will protest SOPA using home page (news.cnet.com)

502 points by GBond 2012-01-17 | 104 comments

5.

Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos (news.cnet.com)

502 points by ValentineC 2012-12-18 | 201 comments

6.

Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case (news.cnet.com)

477 points by falk 2013-07-16 | 86 comments

7.

Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL (news.cnet.com)

435 points by streeter 2012-05-24 | 198 comments

8.

Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost (news.cnet.com)

389 points by iProject 2012-06-30 | 183 comments

9.

Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design (news.cnet.com)

388 points by cooldeal 2012-09-21 | 243 comments

10.

T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts (news.cnet.com)

384 points by gabbo 2013-10-09 | 172 comments

11.

Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay? (news.cnet.com)

341 points by chasef 2013-10-25 | 242 comments

12.

FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites (news.cnet.com)

301 points by quadrahelix 2012-05-04 | 159 comments

13.

FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software (news.cnet.com)

288 points by ojbyrne 2013-08-02 | 97 comments

14.

Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak (news.cnet.com)

277 points by mglauco 2014-03-20 | 159 comments

15.

Matt Damon: Edward Snowden did a great thing (news.cnet.com)

257 points by vinhnx 2013-08-26 | 95 comments

16.

Why I'm thrilled Mark Zuckerberg is annoying the bankers (news.cnet.com)

240 points by dean 2012-05-10 | 204 comments

17.

Google uncloaks once-secret server (news.cnet.com)

238 points by ars 2009-04-01 | 53 comments

18.

BBC confronts Facebook troll (news.cnet.com)

233 points by alvivar 2012-02-08 | 127 comments

19.

Why all HDMI cables are the same (news.cnet.com)

231 points by rheide 2011-09-11 | 79 comments

20.

Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says (news.cnet.com)

224 points by danilocampos 2013-01-26 | 77 comments

21.

SOPA Opponents May Go Nuclear (news.cnet.com)

221 points by thematt 2011-12-29 | 118 comments

22.

Kill the Snowden interview, congressman tells SXSW (news.cnet.com)

216 points by joesmo 2014-03-10 | 90 comments

23.

Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance (news.cnet.com)

215 points by donohoe 2013-04-04 | 147 comments

24.

Apple engineer uses Lego to rebuild Antikythera mechanism (news.cnet.com)

210 points by gommm 2010-12-11 | 42 comments

25.

How Facebook is ruining sharing (news.cnet.com)

206 points by nreece 2011-11-19 | 70 comments

26.

Mozilla: Microsoft bans Firefox on ARM-based Windows (news.cnet.com)

205 points by vibrunazo 2012-05-10 | 68 comments

27.

Google maps cut prices by 88% (news.cnet.com)

205 points by njx 2012-06-23 | 92 comments

28.

Google offers JPEG alternative for faster Web (news.cnet.com)

204 points by ukdm 2010-09-30 | 110 comments

29.

NY official: Airbnb stay illegal; host fined $2,400 (news.cnet.com)

202 points by swallsy 2013-05-21 | 265 comments

30.

IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant (news.cnet.com)

198 points by DanielBMarkham 2013-04-10 | 180 comments

31.

Physicist cuts plane boarding time in half (news.cnet.com)

197 points by timf 2011-08-31 | 110 comments

32.

Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands (news.cnet.com)

196 points by declan 2013-05-31 | 151 comments

33.

Security researcher Charlie Miller booted from Apple Developer Program (news.cnet.com)

191 points by cubix 2011-11-08 | 113 comments

34.

Obama administration wanted warrantless access rights to most US email (news.cnet.com)

191 points by miked 2010-04-16 | 92 comments

35.

This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. (news.cnet.com)

191 points by dclaysmith 2012-04-11 | 47 comments

36.

ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12 (news.cnet.com)

189 points by dangrossman 2012-03-16 | 140 comments

37.

White House raises petition signature threshold to 100K (news.cnet.com)

184 points by Wingman4l7 2013-01-16 | 129 comments

38.

Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants (news.cnet.com)

184 points by nhebb 2012-11-20 | 137 comments

39.

This is what a Google server looks like (2009) (news.cnet.com)

183 points by Scott_MacGregor 2010-09-25 | 38 comments

40.

Yahoo blocked emails about Wall Street protest (news.cnet.com)

180 points by danso 2011-09-21 | 49 comments

41.

DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats (news.cnet.com)

179 points by declan 2013-05-08 | 134 comments

42.

Yahoo tops Google in US traffic (news.cnet.com)

177 points by zher 2013-08-22 | 149 comments

43.

Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops (news.cnet.com)

175 points by llambda 2012-01-24 | 179 comments

44.

Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback impossible (news.cnet.com)

175 points by wyclif 2012-07-03 | 111 comments

45.

Obama endorses required high school coding classes (news.cnet.com)

172 points by joshualastdon 2013-02-15 | 101 comments

46.

One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad (news.cnet.com)

171 points by inshane 2011-10-13 | 83 comments

47.

Google vows to fight antipiracy bill even if passed (news.cnet.com)

169 points by urbannomad 2011-05-19 | 46 comments

48.

The inside story of how Microsoft killed its Courier tablet (Part 1) (news.cnet.com)

165 points by desigooner 2011-11-01 | 114 comments

49.

Brin on Yegge's post: "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages" (news.cnet.com)

161 points by dporan 2011-10-20 | 146 comments

50.

Store owner installs surveillance cameras to spy on police (news.cnet.com)

153 points by fraqed 2013-11-23 | 67 comments

51.

WSJ comes out for SOPA (news.cnet.com)

150 points by goatcurious 2012-01-18 | 84 comments

52.

'Pardon Snowden,' one tech exec tells Obama, report says (news.cnet.com)

150 points by fraqed 2013-12-19 | 108 comments

53.

Snowden: NSA snoops on U.S. phone calls without warrants (news.cnet.com)

149 points by declan 2013-06-17 | 32 comments

54.

DOJ: We can force you to decrypt that laptop (news.cnet.com)

148 points by d0ne 2011-07-11 | 120 comments

55.

Woz on Apple: 'I'm a little afraid' (news.cnet.com)

148 points by Sato 2011-10-15 | 67 comments

56.

Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman (news.cnet.com)

147 points by njx 2012-10-03 | 79 comments

57.

Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers (news.cnet.com)

146 points by FluidDjango 2011-12-31 | 30 comments

58.

Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images (news.cnet.com)

145 points by Rod 2010-08-04 | 109 comments

59.

Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook (news.cnet.com)

144 points by noahc 2011-08-10 | 92 comments

60.

Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia (news.cnet.com)

144 points by zalew 2012-09-19 | 53 comments

61.

San Francisco Subway Muzzles Cell Service During Protest (news.cnet.com)

142 points by hornokplease 2011-08-12 | 111 comments

62.

Google Chrome already No. 1 among free iOS apps (news.cnet.com)

139 points by mtgx 2012-06-29 | 94 comments

63.

Disabling Google Buzz: How to purge your profile (news.cnet.com)

134 points by dailo10 2010-02-12 | 37 comments

64.

Microsoft: U.S. Constitution is 'suffering' from NSA secrecy (news.cnet.com)

131 points by declan 2013-07-16 | 47 comments

65.

Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data back (news.cnet.com)

124 points by soitgoes 2012-04-18 | 50 comments

66.

Senate bill amounts to death penalty for Web sites (news.cnet.com)

124 points by grellas 2011-05-13 | 51 comments

67.

IBM: Mind reading is less than five years away. For real. (news.cnet.com)

124 points by azazo 2011-12-20 | 90 comments

68.

LG launches Firefox phone in Brazil (news.cnet.com)

123 points by daleharvey 2013-10-23 | 35 comments

69.

Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner (news.cnet.com)

122 points by tanglesome 2013-12-10 | 60 comments

70.

DNS provision pulled from SOPA, victory for opponents (news.cnet.com)

121 points by phreeza 2012-01-13 | 30 comments

71.

We're not paying enough for apps (news.cnet.com)

119 points by bmac 2012-02-26 | 113 comments

72.

Sen. Manchin demands complete US ban on Bitcoin (news.cnet.com)

118 points by declan 2014-02-26 | 201 comments

73.

Federal judge tosses Apple patent lawsuit against Motorola (news.cnet.com)

117 points by lnguyen 2012-11-05 | 82 comments

74.

Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million (1998) (news.cnet.com)

113 points by ig1 2013-05-20 | 52 comments

75.

Google employee ports Amiga emulator to Chrome (news.cnet.com)

113 points by bane 2013-12-12 | 53 comments

76.

Woz: Microsoft might be more creative than Apple (news.cnet.com)

112 points by aynlaplant 2012-11-23 | 106 comments

77.

IKEA's brilliant Facebook campaign (news.cnet.com)

111 points by oneplusone 2009-11-25 | 18 comments

78.

Nokia begins work on graphene (news.cnet.com)

109 points by bhauer 2013-02-01 | 48 comments

79.

Instacart (YC S12) aims to be the Amazon Prime of grocery delivery (news.cnet.com)

109 points by apoorvamehta 2012-08-08 | 58 comments

80.

NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers (news.cnet.com)

108 points by khakimov 2012-07-28 | 61 comments

81.

Anti-SOPA, PIPA lawmakers want Internet Bill of Rights (news.cnet.com)

107 points by iProject 2012-06-11 | 21 comments

82.

12-year-old sues school district over Facebook profile search (news.cnet.com)

107 points by redridingnews 2012-03-11 | 59 comments

83.

Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right (2009) (news.cnet.com)

104 points by dgudkov 2012-05-12 | 70 comments

84.

NSA surveillance retrospective: AT&T, Verizon never denied it (news.cnet.com)

103 points by declan 2013-06-12 | 19 comments

85.

Bill Gates 'not satisfied' with Microsoft's innovations (news.cnet.com)

101 points by 6thSigma 2013-02-18 | 88 comments

86.

Security researcher: I keep getting detained by feds (news.cnet.com)

100 points by mcantelon 2010-11-19 | 38 comments

87.

Obama opposes House passage of H.R. 6429 (news.cnet.com)

99 points by prostoalex 2012-11-29 | 109 comments

88.

Java creator James Gosling: 'Google totally slimed Sun' (news.cnet.com)

97 points by protomyth 2012-04-30 | 104 comments

89.

Facebook 'boring'? 1 in 3 users are tuning it out (news.cnet.com)

95 points by Garbage 2012-06-05 | 99 comments

90.

Court to Yelp: Reveal names of negative reviewers (news.cnet.com)

95 points by passepartout 2014-01-10 | 71 comments

91.

DOJ tries to block return of data to MegaUpload user (news.cnet.com)

93 points by iProject 2012-06-11 | 13 comments

92.

Six best start-ups from Y Combinator demo day (news.cnet.com)

93 points by polvi 2009-03-19 | 57 comments

93.

World's tallest skyscraper to be built in just 90 days (news.cnet.com)

92 points by bitcartel 2012-11-20 | 67 comments

94.

Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk (news.cnet.com)

90 points by robin_reala 2013-04-22 | 80 comments

95.

A keyboard that rises up from flat touch screens (news.cnet.com)

90 points by sgrove 2014-01-23 | 39 comments

96.

Sergey Brin: Facebook and Apple a threat to Internet freedom (news.cnet.com)

88 points by gamebit07 2012-04-16 | 104 comments

97.

IBM faces shareholder lawsuit over cooperation with NSA (news.cnet.com)

88 points by fraqed 2013-12-15 | 12 comments

98.

Reddit's visitors skyrocket in 2012 with 37 billion page views (news.cnet.com)

87 points by aniketpant 2013-01-01 | 49 comments

99.

Google, Samsung unveil Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Galaxy Nexus (news.cnet.com)

86 points by AhtiK 2011-10-19 | 130 comments

100.

Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (news.cnet.com)

85 points by jamesjyu 2011-12-19 | 26 comments

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