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EA hackers say they used stolen cookies, bought online for $10, to gain access to EA Slack, and then tricked IT support to give login tokens for EA's network
NY Senate becomes the first legislative body in the US to pass right to repair legislation for electronics; the bill still has to pass the NY Assembly
EA confirms that it has suffered a data breach, after hackers claim they have 780GB of data, including source code for FIFA 21 and the Frostbite engine
Microsoft's Bing is not displaying image results for "tank man" when connecting from US IP addresses, on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Inside the Chicken Drumstick video game cheating empire, which made ~$77M from selling cheats for PUBG Mobile before Chinese police and Tencent busted the ring
Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado
Amazon introduces coffin-sized AmaZen meditation booths in which warehouse employees can watch company videos about mindfulness to deal with stress
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Sources detail Citizen's efforts to cash in on vigilantism, including flooding users with notifications to make them anxious enough to buy its premium service
Developers Flee Open Source Project After ‘Takeover’ By Korean Crown Prince
Leaked emails show that Citizen app is testing an on-demand private security service that will respond to "incidents" as requested by app users
Study: being corrected by another user for posting false political news increases subsequent sharing of low quality, partisan, and toxic content
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body
Ford Wants Billboards to Beam Distracting Ads to Screens Inside Your Car
eBay says it is closing its "adult-only" section, banning the sale of "sexually-oriented" content including films, anime, and books
Twitter Said It Restricted Palestinian Writer's Account by Accident – VICE
Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Reveals
Anti-Maskers Ready to Start Masking—to Protect Themselves From the Vaccinated
Finance Giant Plaid Paid People $500 for Their Employer Payroll Logins
Some independent repair experts say the MacBook schematics released by ransomware group REvil are helpful in understanding and fixing devices
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down
FTC Report to Congress: Repair Monopolies Harm the Public and the Planet
Apple emails disclosed in Epic trial show that 128M iPhone users, of which 18M were in the US and 55% in China, downloaded apps with XCodeGhost malware in 2015
Google says it will start verifying users with 2FA enabled using a prompt on their phones, and will soon start automatically enabling 2FA for all users
Drivers say Amazon's US delivery companies are ordering them to turn off an app called Mentor that is designed to prevent accidents by monitoring speed
Techmeme · 1 month ago
Motorcycle Airbag Vest Will Stop Working If You Miss a Payment
Email marketing schemes offering to pay for peoples' work credentials, which may be illegal, seem linked to Argyle, a startup backed by Bain Capital and others
At least 15 Basecamp employees announced on Twitter that they are leaving the company, with some specifically citing new policy banning political talk at work
Snowden Dunks on 'The Get-Rich-Quick Real Estate Investing Conference
The Couple Who Shagged in an MRI Machine for Science
Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
Signal's CEO says he analyzed a Cellebrite device, used to extract data from phones, that fell off a truck, and it is full of easily exploitable security flaws
Bipartisan lawmakers introduce Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act to address police surveillance, including banning warrantless location data purchases
Facebook says a vulnerability that lets attackers find a Facebook profile given an email address is still active after being "erroneously closed out"
Facebook Wants to 'Normalize' the Mass Scraping of Personal Data
Washington State Votes to End Restrictions On Community Broadband
The DOJ says the FBI performed a court-approved operation to "copy and remove malicious web shells" on hundreds of hacked Exchange servers across the US
Researcher told Valve about a bug in its graphics engine in 2019 that could let hackers take over players' PCs via Steam invite; bug remains in some Valve games
Proctorio Is Using Racist Algorithms to Detect Faces
Congress Says Foreign Intel Services Could Abuse Ad Networks for Spying: A group of bipartisan lawmakers asked Google, Twitter, and others about the transfer of bidstream data to foreign entities.
The Last Time the Suez Canal Was Blocked a Utopian Communist Micronation Was Formed at Sea
Activision warns PC players of Call of Duty: Warzone that a popular "cheat" is actually malware and installing it allows hackers to take over a user's machine
Pornhub releases its first transparency report, detailing its AI and human moderation efforts, and says it removed 653,465 pieces of content in 2020
People’s Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why
NASA Is Launching A $10 Billion ‘Time Machine’ – The James Webb Telescope Will Peer Farther Back Into The Universe’s History Than Ever Before And Is The "Ultimate Time Machine," Scientists Say.
Stanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on Github
Troy Hunt claims that Carding Mafia, a forum for stealing and trading credit cards, has been hacked, exposing emails, usernames, and passwords for ~300K hackers
Text routing firm Aerialink says that all major US cell carriers have closed an SMS loophole that allowed hackers to easily reroute a target's text messages
Amazon drivers share photos of pee bottles after the company tweets "you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?" to a congressman
Techmeme · 3 months ago