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" Techmeme · 6 days ago
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 Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
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 Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Uber and Lyft Are Out of Ideas, Jacking Up Prices in Desperation for Profit Hacker News · 1 month ago
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 Techmeme · 1 month ago
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 · 1 month 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 Techmeme · 1 month ago
In a policy shift, the DOJ says it will no longer prosecute good-faith security research that violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Techmeme · 1 month ago
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 Techmeme · 2 months ago
Leaked memo shows the anti-union talking points that Apple is sending retail store leaders, including that workers could lose "flexibility" and merit promotions Techmeme · 2 months ago
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 Techmeme · 2 months ago
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 Techmeme · 2 months ago
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 Techmeme · 2 months ago
Internal email: Amazon permanently lets its warehouse workers keep their cell phones while they work, after temporarily lifting its ban during the pandemic Techmeme · 2 months ago
A leaked document written by some Facebook ad team privacy engineers: Meta has an inadequate level of "control and explainability over how our systems use data" Techmeme · 2 months ago
Ebook vendors like Hoopla are including titles with COVID-19 disinfo, Holocaust denial, and more; librarians want more transparency and accountability Techmeme · 2 months ago
Source: 70% of workers at an Atlanta Apple Store have agreed to hold a union election, becoming the first Apple Store to file for a union election with the CWA Techmeme · 2 months ago
Google's new automated "inclusive warning" on Docs is very broken and annoying, like suggesting "landlord" might not be inclusive Techmeme · 2 months ago
A look at independent investigators, like @zachxbt and YouTuber @coffeebreak_YT, who are uncovering crypto and Web3 scams, often using pseudonymous identities Techmeme · 3 months ago
Court docs: T-Mobile paid hackers ~$200K via a third party to stop an ongoing leak of stolen data on 30M customers, but the hackers kept selling it regardless Techmeme · 3 months ago
Analysis of 150 US police reports mentioning Apple's AirTags shows 50 cases where women reported being stalked, mostly involving former intimate partners Techmeme · 3 months ago
A look at Axie Infinity "managers", who loan in-game NFTs to other players in exchange for a cut of any profits and depend on a constant influx of new players Techmeme · 3 months ago
Discord servers of some NFT projects, including BAYC, were compromised on Friday as part of a phishing scam seeking to trick users into "minting" fake NFTs Techmeme · 3 months ago
Scammers are advertising access to Facebook's Media Partner Portal, used by media and PR agencies to resolve issues, to allegedly get users verified Techmeme · 3 months ago
A unit of 12 Google Fiber workers in Kansas City, Missouri, becomes the first NLRB-recognized bargaining unit of the Alphabet Workers Union, a branch of the CWA Techmeme · 3 months ago
A look at Lantern, a company backed by the US' Open Technology Fund that has spent the last two years building a peer-to-peer network to bypass Russian censors Techmeme · 3 months ago
Google reaches a settlement, under NDA, with six engineers who revealed the company's 2018-2020 anti-union campaign; four fired engineers will not be reinstated Techmeme · 3 months ago
SXSW shows crypto and the metaverse are underwhelming, mundane, and pathetic; the biggest boosters are rich enough to generate interest but not social utility Techmeme · 4 months ago
Maintainer of the popular open source networking tool node-ipc appears to have sabotaged the tool's code to wipe data on computers based in Russia and Belarus Techmeme · 4 months ago
Q&A with John Reed Stark, the SEC's former Head of Internet Enforcement, on Biden's crypto EO, how regulation may be a "death knell" for crypto firms, and more Techmeme · 4 months ago
Investigation finds a campaign coordinated in a secret Telegram channel to pay Russian TikTok influencers to post videos pushing pro-Kremlin narratives Techmeme · 4 months ago
Twitter launches a Tor onion service using a modified version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, letting users access Twitter via any Tor-compatible browser Techmeme · 4 months ago
Four Amazon delivery service partners in the US describe racking up debts of tens of thousands of dollars after the company abruptly terminated their contracts Techmeme · 4 months ago
OpenSea confirms that it is banning users to comply with US sanctions, after some users with Iran-based IP addresses say their accounts and NFTs were deleted Techmeme · 4 months ago
The GitHub repository for Meta's open source library React is being spammed with anti-US and anti-Ukrainian comments in English and Mandarin Techmeme · 4 months ago
Arcane Research data: trading volume between tether and Russia's ruble set a daily record of $34.94M on Monday, as the ruble fell to a record low against USD Techmeme · 4 months ago
Developers at EA, Zynga, Ubisoft, and others describe internal turmoil and disapproval over executive-level decisions and plans to use crypto and NFTs in games Techmeme · 4 months ago
Following Ukraine's request, Binance says banning Russian users would "fly in the face of" crypto's purpose; NFT market DMarket bans Russians and Belarusians Techmeme · 4 months ago
In a viral tweet, Elon Musk says SpaceX's Starlink internet is now active in Ukraine with "more terminals en route", but it's unclear when or how many Techmeme · 4 months ago
In a report, Pangu Lab, a Chinese cybersecurity company, says the NSA is behind the Equation Group and Bvp47, a backdoor malware in use for the past ten years Techmeme · 4 months ago
Russia's telecom and internet regulator announces a "partial restriction" of access to Facebook over Meta's alleged restrictions on some Russian media Techmeme · 4 months ago