New Proposal Would Let Companies Further Screw You Over With Terms of Service – A long line of legal experts say the American Law Institute proposal would make an already huge problem dramatically worse. Reddit · 2 days ago
‘The Blowjob Paper:’ Scientists Processed 109 Hours of Oral Sex to Develop an AI that Sucks Dick Reddit · 4 days ago
Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog Copyright Trial Will Help Decide Who Can Use Memes: Are memes fair use? Or can you be sued for sharing and profiting off them? Reddit · 4 days ago
Thousands of Facebook Groups Go Secret in Fear of the Great ‘Zuccing’ – Mass panic is the reason all of your Facebook groups just went secret. Reddit · 7 days ago
Canada Plans ‘Meaningful Financial Consequences’ for Tech Companies That Spread Disinformation – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the planned "digital charter" to tackle online extremism, disinformation, and transparency, on Thursday. Reddit · 1 week ago
The FCC Flubbed the Puerto Rico Hurricane Response and Won’t Answer Questions About it – "The FCC has yet to conduct a vigorous investigation into the failure of the islands’ communications infrastructure, which was a major factor in the death toll." Reddit · 1 week ago
Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop – "You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them. Reddit · 1 week ago
AT&T Contractors and a Verizon Employee Charged With Helping SIM Swapping Criminal Ring – The indictments show that sometimes stealing phone numbers to hack accounts is an inside job. Reddit · 1 week ago
FCC Commissioners Say the Agency Won’t Tell Them About Phone Location Data Investigation – Ajit Pai’s FCC cares more about the privacy of its investigation than the privacy of consumers, one says. Reddit · 1 week ago
An in-depth look at Ingress, a sci-fi AR/VR MMO game about two factions fighting for global domination, and how far its fans go in real life for a virtual war Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Jeff Bezos Is a Post-Earth Capitalist – Bezos admits that the limitless growth that made him the world’s richest man is incompatible with a habitable Earth. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Researchers Are Liberating Thousands of Pages of Forgotten Hacking History From the Government Reddit · 2 weeks ago
More than 100 Riot Games employees walked out on Monday to protest the company's use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits Techmeme · 2 weeks ago