/r/technology top posts: Jan 19, 2021

1. GitHub apologizes for firing Jewish employee who warned of Nazis in U.S. Capitol: TechCrunch\ (4163 comments)

2. Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm\ (1793 comments)

3. Man offers city $70 million to dig up lost 7,500-bitcoin hard drive\ (268 comments)

4. DuckDuckGo reaches a major milestone in its fight to topple Google\ (98 comments)

5. Facebook knew about violent extremists before insurrection, reports find [Updated]\ (88 comments)

6. Blind man regains sight thanks to Israeli startup's synthetic cornea\ (79 comments)

7. Twitter responsible for half of child abuse material UK investigators found on web platforms\ (60 comments)

8. I tried a $7,600 desk that lets you get horizontal at work\ (38 comments)

9. Parler seems to be sliding back onto the Internet, but not onto mobile\ (26 comments)

10. Hundreds of Parler videos from riot republished in chronological timeline\ (25 comments)

11. I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users and my head is spinning | ZDNet\ (23 comments)

12. Desalination breakthrough could make clean water cheaper\ (21 comments)

13. Social-Media Algorithms Rule How We See the World. Good Luck Trying to Stop Them. - What you see in your feeds isn’t up to you. What’s at stake is no longer just missing a birthday. It’s your sanity—and world peace.\ (19 comments)

14. Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm\ (17 comments)

15. Parler Partially Reappears With Support From Russian Technology Firm\ (16 comments)

16. Telegram says it ‘shut down hundreds of public calls for violence’ in US last week\ (12 comments)

17. First certified electric plane ready for takeoff\ (7 comments)

18. Samsung’s top executive gets 30 months in prison for bribery\ (7 comments)

19. Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced\ (7 comments)

20. FBI: Disinformation Campaigns Seek to Exploit Capitol Siege\ (4 comments)

21. Hacked Off report identifies 55 fake news stories about Covid-19 published in National Newspapers in 2020. IPSO failed to uphold a complaint on any of the stories included in the report.\ (3 comments)

22. WhatsApp delays privacy update over user ‘confusion’ and backlash about Facebook data sharing\ (3 comments)

23. This clever bot turns Reddit arguments into video game scenes\ (2 comments)

24. Signal Provides Secure Cross-Platform Replacement for WhatsApp\ (1 comments)

25. Fossil fuel firms need to curb climate gas leaks, Watchdog says\ (0 comments)