What the CEO of Kickstarter Said to Creators About Firing Union Organizers

The CEO Aziz Hasan denied retaliating against employees for union organizing, but said that a "union framework is inherently adversarial." | Continue reading


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Study Proves the FCC's Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False

The biggest study yet finds Ajit Pai’s repeated claims that net neutrality hurt broadband investment have never been true. | Continue reading


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The Only Way You Can Delete This NSA Malware Is to Smash Your Hard Drive to Bits

If you thought Stuxnet was bad, wait until you meet Equation Group, the most sophisticated cyber attack yet group yet. | Continue reading


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Number Theorist Fears All Published Maths Is Wrong

"I think there is a non-zero chance that some of our great castles are built on sand," he said, arguing that we must begin to rely on AI to verify proofs. | Continue reading


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Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong

"I think there is a non-zero chance that some of our great castles are built on sand," he said, arguing that we must begin to rely on AI to verify proofs. | Continue reading


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OK, WTF Is Google's 'Quantum Supremacy'?

A leaked paper from Google and contributing researchers from NASA announced a mind-boggling advance in computer science last week. Here's everything you need to know about what it is and if it matters. | Continue reading


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Google Sends Advertising Dollars to Fake News Sites

New research shows Google's online ad technologies provide an estimated 70% of ad revenue to 1,700 websites purveying misinformation. | Continue reading


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What Is CrowdStrike and Why Is Donald Trump Blabbering About It to Ukraine

Donald Trump talked about a cybersecurity firm in a phone call with the Ukraine President that is now the focus of an impeachment inquiry. | Continue reading


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Google Contractors Officially Vote to Unionize

The contractors work at a company called HCL, which strongly encouraged its employees to vote against the union. | Continue reading


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Grindstone is a perfect puzzler to showcase Apple Arcade’s promise

In another world, 'Grindstone' is a cool idea undercut by frustrating and intrusive microtransactions. Here, you're allowed to focus on the game. What a concept! | Continue reading


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Entitled People Don't Like to Follow Instructions (2018)

They see rules as an unfair imposition. | Continue reading


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Google Sends Advertising Dollars to Fake News Sites

New research shows Google's online ad technologies provide an estimated 70% of ad revenue to 1,700 websites purveying misinformation. | Continue reading


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Prescribed Painkillers Didn’t Cause the Opioid Crisis

People who need pain meds aren't usually the ones who get addicted. | Continue reading


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Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against for Reporting Abuse

A leaked document highlights stories of abuse and retaliation against Google employees, told by the employees themselves. | Continue reading


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Chech Not Renewing Contract After Code-Deletion Protest

Last week, a former employee deleted open-source code he wrote for a tool called Chef in protest over an ICE contract. Now, Chef says it will not renew its work with ICE. | Continue reading


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Google Changed the Secretive Market for Most Dangerous Hacks in the World

For five years, Google has funded Project Zero, a team of hackers with the sole mission of finding bugs in whatever software they wanted to research, be it Google’s or somebody else’s. Are they making the internet safer? | Continue reading


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Indonesia’s Rainforests Are Burning and They Matter Just as Much as the Amazon

Orangutans and other endangered animals are losing irreplaceable habitat, leading towards their extinction. | Continue reading


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The Internet of Things Is Still a Privacy Dumpster Fire, Study Finds

Biggest IoT study ever finds “smart” devices hoover up a universe of user behavior data and share it with a laundry list of global third parties, frequently with little transparency to the end user. | Continue reading


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'Everyone Should Have a Moral Code' Says Developer Who Deleted Code Sold to ICE

Seth Vargo wrote code used in a platform called Chef. When he learned ICE was a customer, he wrestled with ICE using code he had personally written. | Continue reading


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Satellaview – Nintendo's Forgotten Console

How the company tried to make downloadable content work in 1995—and how preservationists today are racing against time to retrieve a chunk of gaming history. | Continue reading


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AT&T Says Customers Can’t Sue for Selling Location Data to Bounty Hunters

Due to the contract fine print, AT&T says customers must instead deal with the company privately rather than in court. | Continue reading


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Expert Says Indians Will Soon Be Water Refugees Heading for Water-Rich Europe

Rajendra Singh, also known as the “Waterman of India”, says over 70 percent of the country has dried up, and this may lead to climatic migration to other countries. | Continue reading


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The Actress Who Killed Her Abusive Husband and Was Expelled from Hollywood

The story of Saundra Edwards, whose dreams of Hollywood stardom were cut short when she fired a shotgun shell through her husband's chest. | Continue reading


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Court Rules That ‘Scraping’ Public Website Data Isn’t Hacking

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals shot down LinkedIn's claim that a company that was using its public facing data was violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. | Continue reading


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The FBI Tried to Plant a Backdoor in an Encrypted Phone Network

The FBI wanted a backdoor in Phantom Secure, an encrypted phone company that sold to members of the Sinaloa cartel, and which is linked to the alleged leaking of sensitive law enforcement information in Canada. | Continue reading


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Lyft Allegedly Kept a Driver on the Platform Who Held a Passenger at Gunpoint

Since August 1, the ride share giant has been sued for sexual assault by at least 26 passengers, who say the company has failed to remove rapists from the app and “dismisses and ignores” safety concerns. | Continue reading


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GOP Activists Just Formed a Dark Money Group to Go to War with Big Tech

The Internet Accountability Project is the brainchild of Mike Davis, who led the fight to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. | Continue reading


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Snowden published his memoir, "Permanent Record," and the US government doesn't want him to make any money off of it. | Continue reading


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Company builds private Real-Time surveillance DB with 9B license plate scans

Repo men are passively scanning and uploading the locations of every car they drive by into DRN, a surveillance database of 9 billion license plate scans accessible by private investigators. | Continue reading


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Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft workers have all pledged to strike on 9/20

Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft workers have all pledged to strike on September 20. | Continue reading


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Everest Is Melting, Revealing Tons of Garbage and Human Bodies

“The world’s highest garbage dump” is throwing up trash and corpses that lay buried for decades as commercial mountaineering meets climate change. | Continue reading


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Even Limited Nuclear War Could Cause 90M Casualties in a Few Hours

Princeton University researchers use the Pentagon’s own plans to debunk the idea that nuclear war could ever be small and tactical. | Continue reading


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Libraries Are Scanning Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain

Millions of books are secretly in the public domain thanks to a copyright loophole, a new project seeks to put them on the Internet Archive. | Continue reading


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Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT over Epstein Comments

Stallman said the “most plausible scenario” is that one of Epstein’s underage victims was “entirely willing.” | Continue reading


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The Phenomenon That Could Ruin Your Old Discs

CDs and DVDs were sold to consumers as these virtually indestructible platters, but the truth, as exemplified by the “disc rot” phenomenon, is more complicated. | Continue reading


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Chinese Scholars Are Claiming That English Is a Chinese Dialect

They also say that Western civilisation originated in China and that accounts of ancient Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians are all fake. | Continue reading


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If This Picture Is Blurry, Your Posture Sucks

By blurring the screen when you're slouching, this site wants to help you fix your posture. | Continue reading


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Material is blacker than anything even vantablack

MIT scientists have produced a material that is 10 times darker than anything else made by humans. | Continue reading


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T-Mobile Has a Secret Setting to Protect Your Account from Hackers

T-Mobile’s little known NOPORT setting can protect your phone number from SIM swapping. | Continue reading


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Felicity Huffman Sentenced to 14 Days in Prison in College Admissions Scandal

Huffman paid $15,000 for someone to take the SAT for her daughter. | Continue reading


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The Tireless Slog of Porting 'Double Dragon' to Genesis

Back then, game companies basically dumped an arcade machine in your lap and said "good luck." | Continue reading


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Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims as 'Entirely Willing'

Stallman, a pioneer of the free software movement, argued about the definition of "sexual assault" on an MIT email listserv about the university's connections to Jeffrey Epstein. | Continue reading


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Is an ancient Chinese cultural concept mixing with the “model minority my (cont)

The importance of maintaining "face" in Asian cultures goes back thousands of years. In the US, where Asian Americans also grapple with a rampant high-achiever stereotype, people are suffering silently. | Continue reading


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The Stress of Growing Up a Child of Immigrants

Though immigrants come from a variety of backgrounds, there are certain stressors that U.S.-born children of immigrants have in common. | Continue reading


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Human Progress is a Lie

Noted political philosopher, author, and regular contributor to the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman' John Gray's latest book is about how the idea of human progress is bullshit, and we're all still just wild beasts with a few fancy toys. | Continue reading


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Laser Tripwire Automatically Minimizes Your Tabs When Someone Walks By

The tiny device sweeps all your porn searches, workplace gaming and general time thievery under the rug when someone passes by your desk. | Continue reading


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The Government Won't Let Me Watch Them Kill Bison, So I'm Suing

I think that if the public knew what was being done to the Yellowstone herd, people might demand a change in policy. | Continue reading


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