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SIM-Swapping Indictments Pile Up as Congress Begs the FCC to Do More
The Cable TV Industry Finally Starts Listening to Angry Cord Cutters – Verizon’s new internet and TV offerings are a step in the right direction, but likely won’t be enough to appease angry cord cutters who moved on to streaming long ago.
Brochure shows a surveillance vendor is offering spying capabilities to local police via hidden cameras in tombstones, vacuum cleaners, and baby car seats
Gig Economy Now Making Workers Organize Groceries in Rich People’s Fridges – Jupiter is the latest Service as a Service platform from Silicon Valley
Farmers Are Buying 40-Year-Old Tractors Because They’re Actually Repairable
The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make
Facebook moderators in Ireland say company policies, including tracking toilet breaks and setting unrealistic quality standards, add to their trauma
Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Video
Ajit Pai Still Thinks Killing Net Neutrality Was a Brilliant Idea – The FCC boss insisted at CES that ignoring the public and killing net neutrality fixed America’s broadband problems. It didn’t.
Ajit Pai Still Thinks Killing Net Neutrality Was a Brilliant Idea
Something Awful’s Notorious ‘Fuck You and Die’ Forum Shuts Down Because of Nazis – After 20 years, Something Awful’s founder has shut down its most notorious subforum.
New York is proposing the creation of a 'public Venmo'
Scientists Have Created the First ‘Chemical Turing Machine’ – Inspired by the computing powers of biological cells, researchers have demonstrated a general-purpose computer that relies on only a handful of chemicals.
ToTok is back in the Google Play store with a new prompt about syncing contact info, after being removed amid reports that the app was a spy tool for the UAE
John McAfee No Longer Willing to Eat His Dick on TV
This Website Texts You AI-Generated Foot Pics
Scientists Built a Particle Accelerator Smaller Than a Human Hair on a Chip: The chip’s complex design was generated by a computer. "If you look at the design, no human engineer would have come up with it."
How We Got the Always-On Job – The decade we got the gig economy, hustle culture, and algorithmic bosses.
The Decade We Learned There’s No Such Thing as Privacy Online – And a corrupt U.S. government seems incapable and unwilling to do anything about it.
How the Entertainment Industry Solved Piracy, Then Made It Popular Again – Streaming services are starting to look a lot like cable packages.
We Buy Gifts That Surveil Our Loved Ones Because There Is Nothing Else to Buy – VICE
The Defense Department Says It Needs the Encryption the FBI Wants to Break – VICE
Archivists Are Saving the History of Internet Piracy – The goal is to create a catalog of more than 5 terabytes of searchable, piracy-related metadata.
Shopping Sucks Now
A recent spate of Ring camera hacks were part of a podcast livestreamed to Discord called "Nulledcast" in which Ring owners were hacked and harassed live on air
Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever
Senator Wyden Asks Avast Antivirus Why it Sells Users’ Browsing Data – Wyden’s questions come after Mozilla removed Avast’s and AVG’s extensions for harvesting user data.
Injured Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Protesting Dangerous Work Speed – Nine out of 100 Amazon workers in an automated Amazon warehouse near Chicago were injured so badly in 2018 that they had to take time off work or be placed on light duty, new report says.
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