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In this episode: Mozilla releases a browser extension to wall off Facebook A new leather-like material made out of mushroom roots Oracle forces the takedown of an app for using the word “Javascript” An amateur mathematician tackles a decades-old graph theory problem Are open offices better than closed offices? Get ready for your $89 laptop Forget “sunglasses”, here come Ever heard of “sun-lenses” And finally, the BBC released over 16,000 sound effects under a free license

t's Wednesday, April 17th, 2018, and here's your update: A canadian teenager is facing prison for downloading unsecured files from a Nova Scotia government website 10-year old Windows freeware makes a comeback Facebook explains what data they collect on other websites Europe's data protection authorities have their sights on the WHOIS database Why Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel Russia blocks over 16 million IP addresses And finally, Why New York City Stopped Building Subways Feedback appreciated! info@hackerdaily.co

Amazon warehouse workers are allegedly 'peeing in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks (http://www.pulse.ng/bi/tech/undercover-author-finds-amazon-warehouse-workers-in-uk-peed-in-bottles-over-fears-of-being-punished-for-taking-a-break-amzn-id8258070.html) Bloggers ask, is it time to rebuild the web? (https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/its-time-to-rebuild-the-web) Ketamine has been found to have 'fast-acting benefits' for depression (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43753073) A developer shares their experience of submitting a progressive web application to 3 app stores, (http://debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com/2018/04/13/i-built-a-pwa-and-published-it-in-3-app-stores-heres-what-i-learned/) Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Botnets, APTs (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-65-000-home-routers-are-proxying-bad-traffic-for-botnets-apts/) ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility (https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-048-released) Is the price of free too high? And in fundraising and acquisition news, Earn.com joins Coinbase (https://news.earn.com/earn-com-joins-coinbase-a282a36411d2) And finally General Assembly sells to Adecco for $413M (https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/15/new-yorks-programming-ed-tech-startup-general-assembly-sells-to-adecco-for-413-million/)

Google loses a “right to be forgotten” case in the UK An Apple memo warning employees not to leak information was... leaked Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, and Google all object to a new Web specification, Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway... and Lost Steve Blank discusses Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them with a new funding round, SpaceX's Valuation is now $25B (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/spacex-s-valuation-climbs-to-25-billion-with-new-funding-round) and... Was there a civilization on Earth before humans? (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-earths-only-civilization/557180/?single_page=true)

Today we're covering A $300 hepatitis C cure The New York Times' new text editor for their newsroom Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross on “How to Decide What to Build” Duolingo, the language learning company, released lots of new material And finally, The mystery behind how birds navigate might now be solved

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