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Yandex confirms hackers created a traffic jam in Moscow on September 1 by ordering dozens of taxis from Yandex Taxi to converge on the same location
An artist using Midjourney to create AI-generated art won first place at Colorado State Fair's fine arts competition, leading to criticism by other artists
After an outcry over having transphobic forum Kiwi Farms as a client, Cloudflare says denying security services due to "despicable" content is the wrong policy
Company Tells Employees: Work ‘Voluntary’ Overtime or Go to Jail
Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards
Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, his metaverse focus, and more
iPhone's Lockdown Mode disables a number of features, like loading custom fonts, which makes it easy for websites to identify that a visitor is using the mode
Hands-on with Pretty Good Phone Privacy, a data service for Android that aims to give users an additional layer of privacy when using mobile phone networks
Why Does Everything on Netflix Look Like That?
A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools
'Ring Nation' Is Amazon's Reality Show for Our Surveillance Dystopia
Pinboard · 4 months ago
Served with a warrant, Facebook gave a teen's private chats to Nebraska authorities, who charged her and her mother with breaking laws related to an abortion
AI Is Discovering Its Own ‘Fundamental’ Physics And Scientists Are Baffled – VICE
Leaked Roblox documents show how the platform handles grooming, automatic image scanning, and mass shooting simulators; Roblox says it has over 2,600 moderators
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons proposes offering customers a free hot drink and baked good as a settlement for collecting their location data for over a year
In Experiment, AI Successfully Impersonates Famous Philosopher
Internal docs from 2017 show Roblox's plan for China expansion: censorship compliance, expecting to be hacked and copied by partners like Tencent, and more
Oklahoma Threatens Librarians: ‘Don’t Use the Word Abortion’
Interview with MetaMask founders who say "we can't stop people from making Ponzis on blockchains" and "putting your money in cryptocurrencies is gambling"
Online scam centers in Southeast Asia have perfected "pig butchering", a romance-meets-investment fraud, to lure victims into bogus investment schemes
A woman wrote 206 interconnected Wikipedia articles in Chinese since 2019 with false accounts of Russian medieval history, one of the largest hoaxes on the site
Congress demands info from period tracking apps and data brokers, including policies on geofencing, as part of an investigation into reproductive health data
Code from the FBI’s Anom encrypted messaging app
I tried the app that ‘makes you trip’ and it was surprisingly good
The #1 Period Tracker on the App Store Will Hand Over Data Without a Warrant
Stardust, the top iOS period tracker, says in its privacy policy it may disclose "anonymized, encrypted" data to third parties "whether or not legally required"
The pivot to Web3, driven by ideology rather than utility, is akin to a "collective Theranos" that's warping the economy to benefit professional investors
Masayoshi Son failed to use SoftBank's Vision Fund to build a society mediated by AI, as he invested in firms that leverage exploitative, not explorative, tech
The ‘Capital of Silicon Valley’ Is Ignoring Its Privacy Experts
Uber and Lyft Are Out of Ideas, Jacking Up Prices in Desperation for Profit
Leaked video shows Apple SVP of Retail + People Deirdre O'Brien telling employees that joining a union could hinder Apple's ability to improve workers' jobs
Study: Amazon 3rd-party delivery drivers had an injury rate of one per five full-time-equivalent workers in 2021, up 38% YoY, higher than other delivery drivers
Techmeme · 6 months ago
The QA team at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software votes 19-3 to unionize, as US labor board prosecutors say that the company illegally threatened staff
In a policy shift, the DOJ says it will no longer prosecute good-faith security research that violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Q&A with retail traders after Terra's crash: some lost their life savings, others shared suicidal ideation on forums, some now acknowledge it's a Ponzi scheme
Leaked memo shows the anti-union talking points that Apple is sending retail store leaders, including that workers could lose "flexibility" and merit promotions
San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars As Mobile Surveillance Cameras
A look at the crypto promotion market, where paid influencers and middlemen like Dapp Centre coordinate campaigns that sometimes push the limits of US law
Internal documents: the CDC bought location data from millions of phones in the US to analyze compliance with COVID-19 rules, especially in the Navajo Nation
Investigation: for ~$160, data broker SafeGraph will sell a week's worth of data on visitors of 600+ Planned Parenthood locations and where they went afterwards
Bored Ape Virtual Land Sale Breaks Ethereum, Wastes $180M in Fees
New York Bill Would Force Amazon to Limit Grueling Warehouse Quotas
Reddit · 7 months ago
World’s Richest Man Gets What He Wanted
Internal email: Amazon permanently lets its warehouse workers keep their cell phones while they work, after temporarily lifting its ban during the pandemic
Techmeme · 7 months ago