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Court documents show Google ran a campaign from 2018 to 2020 to "convince" staff that "unions suck"; Google refuses a judge's order to produce more documents
Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
Revealed: Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops
Conference of whackos gets COVID symptoms, decides must be anthrax.
Crypto gaming company VulcanForge says hackers stole ~$135M from users by accessing 96 wallet private keys, as three high-profile hacks net ~$404M this month
In email, Better.com's board says CEO Vishal Garg is "taking time off effective immediately" and it's hiring a firm to "do a leadership and cultural assessment"
Delivery companies and hundreds of Amazon workers say the company's Flex and Dolphin apps for logistics and time tracking are down, halting some deliveries
Techmeme · 1 month ago
The CIA Is Deep into Cryptocurrency, Director Reveals
Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
The QAnon JFK Cult in Dallas Is Tearing Families Apart
ConstitutionDAO scam
An artist and programmer in Australia creates The NFT Bay, a torrent website where anyone can download 15TB of NFT JPEGs
Google researchers found a watering hole attack in August exploiting a macOS zero-day and targeting Hong Kong pro-democracy sites; Apple patched on September 23
Researchers and journalists in Ethiopia say Meta has done little to stop hate speech amid Ethiopia's civil war, claiming moderation often falls to volunteers
A look at the booming market for bots that steal 2FA codes, often using SMS services like Twilio, to break into Coinbase, Amazon, PayPal, and bank accounts
Techmeme · 3 months ago
Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS
The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
Your Phone Is Listening and It's Not Paranoia (2018)
Mastodon founder says Trump's TRUTH Social seems to be using a Mastodon fork, based on a screenshot of an error message featuring Mastodon's elephant mascot
Museum Starts OnlyFans Account After Its TikTok Is Banned for Posting Nudes
Facebook posts an odd thread attacking 30+ unnamed journalists "finishing up a coordinated series of articles based on thousands of pages of leaked documents"
Some indie game developers say connecting with fans on Discord is helping humanize developer teams, shielding them from backlash and abuse
Seven former employees detail Twitch's 2014 hack that forced it to rebuild much of its code infrastructure, and the hack's knock-on effects
White House details its plan for the federal government to adopt phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication methods, such as using hardware security keys
Governor Wants to Prosecute Journalist Who Clicked ‘View Source’ on Government Site
FTC notifies 700+ companies, including AT&T and Hulu, that they could face penalties of up to $43,792 per violation for using deceptive reviews
Woman Allegedly Hacked Flight School, Cleared Planes With Maintenance Issues to Fly
A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Big Business
Twitch Hack of 135 GB of Data Includes How Much Its Biggest Streamers Make
Last week, the anonymous developer behind the NFT project Evolved Apes siphoned ~$2.7M from the project, took down its Twitter account and website, and vanished
Filing: Syniverse, which routes billions of texts annually for AT&T, Verizon, China Mobile, and others, found in May that it was hacked starting in 2016
Internal docs show how Amazon's Astro robot decision-making works; sources who worked on versions of Astro describe it as a "privacy nightmare" and "dangerous"
Techmeme · 4 months ago
The researcher who disclosed three iOS zero-days last week says Apple apologized for the delayed response and said it is still investigating the vulnerabilities
The NSA and CIA use ad blockers
Amazon’s AI cameras are punishing drivers for mistakes they didn’t make
Hacker News · 4 months ago