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Want to save the earth then don’t buy that shiny new iPhone
Bosses turn to ‘tattleware’ to keep tabs on employees working from home | Technology | The Guardian
Waste from one Bitcoin transaction ‘like binning two iPhones’
90% of global farm subsidies damage people and planet, says UN
The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
Sir Clive Sinclair has died
Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production
Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work | George Monbiot | The Guardian
How FBI and Australian police built and marketed the An0m chat service for criminals, which cost $1,700 for a handset and $1,250 for an annual subscription
Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers
US’s wealthiest 1% are failing to pay $160bn a year in taxes, report finds
Documents: LAPD directs its officers to collect social media information of every civilian they interview, including those not arrested or accused of a crime
How the Wire’s Omar Changed TV
Judith Butler: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman’ | Life and style | The Guardian
The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian
Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot
Air pollution is slashing years off the lives of billions, report finds | Air pollution | The Guardian
Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city
‘The smartest person in any room anywhere’: in defence of Elon Musk, by Douglas Coupland | Elon Musk | The Guardian
The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced their ringtones
Starbucks workers in New York are organizing to form first US union
Disgraced Theranos founder will blame ‘abusive’ ex-boyfriend in fraud trial
Brussels battles old prejudices as it frees unloved river from its vault
UK government says it will move away from EU's GDPR after Brexit, including possibly ending cookie consent popups, and names John Edwards as preferred ICO head
Goodbye climate deniers, hello climate bullshitters
Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts | Life and style | The Guardian
Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time
Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse
11. Humans ‘pushing Earth close to tipping point’, say most in G20 | Climate change | The Guardian
Sony's Robot Dog, Aibo
Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public
The US should be held accountable: Gitmo survivor on the war on terror’s failure
Pointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a call for industry reform | Books | The Guardian
Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores
What’s it like living with a phenomenal memory and can it be learned?
Facebook is obstructing our work on disinformation
Nearly half of American workers don’t earn enough to afford a one-bedroom (cont)
Why public schoolboys like me and Boris Johnson aren’t fit to run our country | Private schools | The Guardian
Creatives on Instagram are angry about its move to video, specifically Reels, and complain Instagram's new changes hurt their engagement
Techmeme · 1 month ago
As Cuba's government tightens its control on internet access, attempts from the US government to bolster connectivity on the island seem unlikely to succeed
‘Apocalyptic’ scenes hit Greece as Athens besieged by fire
A woman who rifles through New York’s garbage – exposing the city’s excesses
Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse | Climate change | The Guardian
The world of cats: what our feline friends do when we’re not looking
Facebook let fossil-fuel industry push climate misinformation, report finds
Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry on 3,700-year-old tablet
Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms
Nigeria is now second only to the US in bitcoin trading volume, hitting $2.4B in May from $684M in Dec. 2020, as the government tries and fails to curb its use
Report: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok failed to act on 84% of posts spreading anti-Semitism reported via their own complaint systems
Techmeme · 2 months ago