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| Jan 12, 2023 | Crime-reporting app Citizen lays off 33 employees | Citizen laid off 33 staff members on Wednesday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
“We are grateful to all of our departing team members for their contributions to Citizen and are committed to supporting them through this transition with ... |
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Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? | While we may not know who Satoshi Nakamoto was, we know what he (or she) did. Nakamoto was the inventor of the Bitcoin protocol, publishing a paper via the Cryptography Mailing List in November 2008.
Nakamoto then released the first version... |
| May 25, 2021 | Former Trump Spokesman Ordered To Pay $42,000 To Gizmodo After Losing His Bogus Defamation Lawsuit | A former Trump spokesman has reached the end of his always-doomed attempt to sue an online publication for reporting on the content of court documents. And it's going to cost him about $42,000 in legal fees. |
| May 25, 2021 | Former Trump Spokesman Ordered To Pay $42,000 To Gizmodo After Losing His Bogus Defamation Lawsuit | A former Trump spokesman has reached the end of his always-doomed attempt to sue an online publication for reporting on the content of court documents. And it’s going to cost him about $42,000 in legal fees. |
| Apr 27, 2021 | Appeals Court Says Former Trump Advisor Can't Sue Over Reporting Based On Court Documents | You can be angry about things said about you in court filings. But you really can’t sue about them. Reporting based on court documents is almost (!) always protected by the First Amendment. After all, those making the statements in court ar... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | Appeals Court Says Former Trump Advisor Can't Sue Over Reporting Based On Court Documents | You can be angry about things said about you in court filings. But you really can't sue about them. Reporting based on court documents is almost (!) always protected by the First Amendment. After all, those making the statements in court ar... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | John Mayer has been accused of sexism and racism throughout his career. Here’s a timeline of the singer’s controversies. | John Mayer performs at the 2019 Crossroads Guitar Festival. Robert Knight Archive/Redferns
John Mayer has weathered a variety of controversies throughout his career.
Anecdotes from ex-girlfriends paint the “New Light” singer as toxic and ma... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | You’ve been invited to Clubhouse. Your privacy hasn’t. | Did you get an invitation to join Clubhouse, the invite-only, audio-based app that seemingly everyone is talking about? Before you decide to join the cool kids club, you might want to consider who will see you there, even if you take every ... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | We need talk about our mental health crisis before the worst of COVID winter hits | A lonely university student takes a socially distanced exam in Belgium. ERIC LALMAND/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images
Pandemic life is probably going to get much worse this winter before it gets even a little better. So it’s time to take care... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is the latest Netflix series to mishandle its Black characters | Moses Ingram plays Jolene, one of the only Black characters on ‘The Queen’s Gambit.’ Netflix
Warning: This article contains spoilers for “The Queen’s Gambit.”
Jolene, one of the only Black characters on the Netflix show, falls into a series... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | Content Moderation Case Study: Handling Off Platform Harassment On Platform (June 2020) | Summary: Dealing with harassment of users is always a challenge for internet platforms — and that is especially true for platforms that are focused on live streaming. For many years there have been accusations around sexual harassment probl... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | Content Moderation Case Study: Handling Off Platform Harassment On Platform (June 2020) | Summary: Dealing with harassment of users is always a challenge for internet platforms -- and that is especially true for platforms that are focused on live streaming. For many years there have been accusations around sexual harassment prob... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | Hackers Are Finding Footage on Police Body Cams They Bought on eBay | Curious hackers are buying decommissioned police body cameras online, and some are finding troves of video evidence after successfully extracting data from the devices.
Last week, Twitter user d0tslash found one such cache while searching i... |
| May 26, 2020 | Cannabis Legalization Is Key To Economic Recovery, Much Like Ending Alcohol Prohibition Helped Us Out Of The Great Depression | Our nation is in the midst of the greatest crisis in generations, with the Covid-19 pandemic impacting Americans’ physical and emotional well-being, while plummeting the nation’s economy into the worst economic downturn in our lifetimes. As... |
| Feb 15, 2020 | Любовные игры или как приложения для дейтинга используют геймификацию | Выложил вчера статью про игрофикацию в политике, и потом только вспомнил, что это был день святого Валентина. Так что держите ещё одну статью, на этот раз – про то, как игрофикация используется в приложениях для дейтинга.
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| Nov 25, 2019 | Hackers Dissect 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 8: ‘Request Timeout’ | Episode 8 of Mr. Robot’s final season was intense. We discussed zip ties, phone restoring, location trackers, mixers, Elliot’s sloppy Python script, and the final hack [SPOILERS, obvs]. (The chat transcript has been edited for brevity, clar... |
| Sep 6, 2019 | US senator demands answers from Amazon’s Ring over its police partnerships | Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is looking for answers from Amazon about its doorbell camera Ring and the company’s relationships with law enforcement agencies around the U.S. In a letter published on Thursday, he writes to the technolog... |
| Sep 5, 2019 | Court Tosses $100 Million Defamation Suit Brought By Former Trump Spokesman Over Reporting On Court Documents | A federal court has dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against the Splinter website by a former Trump staffer. Jason Miller, a Trump campaign spokesman, sued after Splinter published an article that included allegations made by another ... |
| Aug 6, 2019 | The bizarre life of 8chan owner Jim Watkins, the middle-age veteran who decamped to the Philippines and runs a pig farm | The owner and operator of 8chan, Jim Watkins.
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Over the weekend, 22 people were killed and more than two dozen others were injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
A manifesto said to be from the shoot... |
| Jun 19, 2019 | 5 things you need to know in SA business today and 9 early YouTube stars who are still wildly popular after more than a decade of fame | 1. StatsSA is due to publish the consumer price index (CPI) for May this morning. Inflation has been tracking nicely in the middle of the Reserve Bank's target range for a while – but with interest rate cuts on the cards, the exact rate of ... |
| Apr 9, 2019 | Ilhan Omar straight-up called Stephen Miller a white nationalist | President Donald Trump may not believe that white nationalism is a growing threat, but Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar thinks he has one in his ranks.
Omar tweeted Monday that Stephen Miller, one of President Trump’s top advisers, is a “white na... |
| Apr 4, 2019 | Mayor Bill de Blasio weighs in on BuzzFeed union dispute | An apparent breakdown in talks between BuzzFeed management and the company’s newsroom union spurred expressions of solidarity from other unions — and even from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The employees of BuzzFeed News (the company’... |
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| Feb 19, 2019 | I Owe Everything to Miss Piggy, a Size-Positive Icon Ahead of Her Time | "Cold Takes" is a column in which we express our passionate beliefs about insignificant events and Internet discourses at least several months too late.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to t... |
| Jan 31, 2019 | Шторм в BuzzFeed: скандальные сокращения, проблемы с Facebook и попытки объединения с другими изданиями Статьи редакции | Тесты формата «Какой ты суп?» всё ещё приносят больше денег, чем новости и трудоёмкие расследования.
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| Jan 31, 2019 | Revolving Doors And Regulatory Capture Are Ensuring E-Voting Remains An Insecure Mess | Despite the long list of bad news generated by electronic voting machines, their market share only continues to grow. Rather than consider them the attack vectors they are, state and county legislators have decided to toss caution and paper... |
| Jan 8, 2019 | The National Vetting Enterprise: Artificial Intelligence and Immigration Enforcement | In May 2018, facing widespread outrage, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) backed away from a proposal for machine learning technology to monitor immigrants continuously. Instead, the department reimagined the vendor solicitation as ... |
| Dec 5, 2018 | Good For The World, But Not Good For Us: The Really Damning Bits Of The Facebook Revelations | As expected, UK Parliament Member Damian Collins released a bunch of documents that he had previously seized under questionable circumstances. While he had revealed some details in a blatantly misleading way during the public hearing he hel... |
| Aug 29, 2018 | Flordia AG Somehow Pivots To The Danger Of Video Games After The Latest Florida Shooting | There is a long tradition in conservative politics for blaming video games whenever a mass shooting is carried out by a relatively young person. It’s a monumentally stupid argument, given the complicated and twisted nature of mass shootings... |
| Jul 25, 2018 | Nextdoor CEO is stepping down | Nirav Tolia, CEO of Nextdoor, is stepping down from his role, Recode reports. For those unfamiliar with the company, Nextdoor is like a social network for your neighborhood. Though, over the years, there has been controversy around Nextdoor... |
| Jun 29, 2018 | Kirsten Gillibrand Becomes First Sitting Senator to Call to Abolish ICE | New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is adding her voice to the abolish ICE movement.
During a Thursday night appearance on CNN, Gillibrand told host Chris Cuomo that she aligns with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—the first-time socialist candidat... |
| Jun 26, 2018 | I Helped Design The Election Simulation 'Parlor Game' Rebekah Mercer Got, And It's Not What You Think | How was your Monday? Mine was odd. Have you ever seen a news story where you know the reports are getting things wrong? This is like that, but on steroids. In fact, this was a story in which not only were the basic points wrong, but the wro... |
| Jun 21, 2018 | Activism & Doxing: Stephen Miller, ICE And How Internet Platforms Have No Good Options | Last month, at the COMO Content Moderation Summit in Washington DC, I co-ran a “You Make the Call” session with Emma Llanso from CDT. The idea was to turn the audience into a content moderation/trust & safety team of a fictionalized soc... |
| Jun 21, 2018 | Stephen Miller had to ditch his cell after Twitter users carpet-bombed his number | Stephen Miller needs a new phone number.
The architect of Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy, responsible for the screams of some 2,300 immigrant children snatched from their parents on the border, was doxed Wednesday, his cell number p... |
| Jun 19, 2018 | Microsoft employees call for end to ICE contract in letter to CEO Satya Nadella | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Outraged by the federal government’s treatment of... |
| Jun 19, 2018 | Microsoft employees call for end to ICE contract in letter to CEO Satya Nadella | Outraged by the federal government’s treatment of people at the southern U.S. border, a collection of more than 100 Microsoft employees have sent a letter to CEO Satya Nadella requesting that the company end its $19.4 million contract to pr... |
| May 11, 2018 | The 15 Best YouTube Videos to Watch When You're Stoned | Potential sources of existential dread lurk around every corner on the internet. One moment you could be dancing with cyber goths, the next getting screamed at, the next narrowly avoiding being hit by a train. You could probably use some he... |
| May 10, 2018 | Kanye West Loves 'Rick and Morty,' Which Makes So Much Sense | With all of Kanye West's recent tweets about reactionary, free-thinking politics and sidling up to right-wing internet shitheads, it seemed like the next natural step in his transformation into full-on Redditor was becoming a Rick and Morty... |
| Apr 25, 2018 | Comcast-Owned MSNBC Blasted For 8 Minute 'News' Love Letter to Comcast | Comcast-owned MSNBC this week took a bit of a beating for an eight-minute “news” segment that was effectively little more than a sappy love letter to their parent company. The segment featured top Comcast lobbyist David Cohen, who years ago... |
| Mar 29, 2018 | Racial Resentment Is in the NRA's DNA, Data Finds | The NRA is nominally a gun rights organization, but in recent years it’s swerved toward embracing a hardline version of conservatism, with all the racial ugliness that that entails. The NRA famously refused to speak out about the 2017 death... |
| Mar 27, 2018 | What lies beneath: The things Facebook knows go beyond user data | Enlarge / Facebook took out ads in US and UK Sunday newspapers apologizing for not doing more to prevent customer data leaks amidst mounting concerns about just how much data Facebook collects.
Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader ... |
| Jan 9, 2018 | The Unsettling Spectacle of Addressing Abuse at Hollywood's 'Party of the Year' | In the promotional video for this year’s Golden Globes, Seth Meyers is smiling wryly, looking slightly pained. “We have,” he intones, “a lot to talk about.” The implication is clear, but it’s also startlingly brief, quickly subsumed by the ... |
| Jan 4, 2018 | Bannon calls Trump a “great man" hours after White House savaging | Steve Bannon called Donald Trump a “great man” Wednesday hours after his former boss publicly accused the Breitbart chief of losing his mind.
Bannon hosted Breitbart News Tonight on Sirius XM radio after a day of high drama in which quotes ... |
| Dec 21, 2017 | Good News: Trump Protestors Accused Of 'Hiding Behind The First Amendment' Acquitted | Last week we wrote about the insanity of the DOJ’s argument in trying to convict a group of protestors at Trump’s inauguration. As we noted, the DOJ didn’t even try to connect the defendants with any violence or property damage, but merely ... |
| Dec 21, 2017 | US government requesting more and more user data from Facebook | Originally Published by:
Facebook says it needs your explicit photos to combat revenge porn Ex-Facebook exec backtracks 'destroying how society works' comments after backlash Facebook asks users to upload face photos to prove they're not bo... |
| Dec 7, 2017 | Media Startups Pivot 360 Degrees On Video | 4 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Report: What happens after you pivot 180 degrees to video? You turn around.
The Internet is half-ruined at the moment by tangentially-related auto-playing videos firing up whenever you want t... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | Pixar’s John Lasseter taking a six-month leave of absence amid reports of inappropriate behavior | John Lasseter, the chief creative officer of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, is the latest media executive to face allegations of inappropriate behavior.
In a memo to employees, Lasseter acknowledged “missteps” and said he wil... |
| Oct 27, 2017 | A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 3 Episode 3: 'Legacy' | The third episode of Mr. Robot's third season may have been light on hacks, but our crew of technologists hopped on Keybase group chat to talk baby cams, encryption, and more. (The chat transcript has been edited for brevity and clarity.) T... |
| Oct 10, 2017 | ICE Demands Journalists 'Return' Snitch Hotline Data It Left Exposed For Three Days After Being Notified | Daniel Rivero and Brendan O’Connor of Splinter recently acquired documents pertaining to ICE’s snitch program — a “see something, say something” but for suspected undocumented aliens. What’s contained in these documents is nasty, petty abus... |
| Oct 6, 2017 | The Vegas Shooting Makes It Clear More Surveillance Isn't The Answer | The solutions proposed by legislators, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and multiple direct beneficiaries of amped-up surveillance in the wake of acts of terrorism are always the same: more of the stuff that didn’t prevent the last a... |
| Sep 14, 2017 | DACA Recipient Doxxed by Classmate and Targeted by Hate Campaign | On Sunday, a Kentucky woman posted a tearful video asking for support after a fellow Transylvania University student put her on blast for being undocumented. Paola Garcia, who's stayed in the US because of the Deferred Action for Childhood ... |
| Jul 25, 2016 | These 5 issues are scaring homeowners away from IoT | When streetlights first lit up New York skies in 1880, Edison was initially revered as a hero. Electric lights were unlike anything his peers had seen before, accustomed as they were to gas lamps and candles, and they cheered to see the new... |
