Top news for December 21, 2008

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Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It

Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp

Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA

SoftBank's Son Pitches $1 Trillion Arizona AI Hub

2 Chinese spacecraft just met up 22,000 miles above Earth, possibly conducting on-orbit refueling operation

China tightens internet controls with new centralized form of virtual ID

The Cult of Personality and Its Consequences

People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design