Detectives from Scotland Yard's cybercrime unit decided the easiest way to get around their suspect's careful use of full-disk encryption and strong passphrases on his Iphone was to trail him… Read the rest of the article: UK cops beat phone encryption by "mugging" suspect after he unlocked his phone
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Cory Doctorow In SoundNet: Learning Sound Representations from Unlabeled Video, researchers from MIT's computer science department describe their success in using software image-recognition to automate sound recognition: once software can use video… Read the rest of the article: Accelerando: once you teach a computer to see, it can teach itself to hear
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Cory Doctorow The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab (previously) is one of the world's leading research centers for cybersecurity analysis, and they are the first port of call for many civil society… Read the rest of the article: How governments and cyber-militias attack civil society groups, and what they can do about it
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Cory Doctorow Data journalists pulled 26,234 of Trump's 34,062 tweets (dating from Jun 1 2015 to Nov 17 2016) from the Twitter API and analyzed them for news-sources, producing a long, detailed… Read the rest of the article: Figuring out Donald Trump's media diet by mining his tweets
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Cory Doctorow Robbo writes, "Peter Sellers recorded a series of performances, in a variety of voices, reciting the lyrics of popular Beatles songs. It is demented weirdness – and perfect in all… Read the rest of the article: Peter Sellers recites the Beatles (in funny voices)
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Cory Doctorow As things stand now, something nearly miraculous has happened: the protesters have won, indigenous people will not be forced at gunpoint to allow a danger to their drinking water that… Read the rest of the article: Army Corps of Engineers denies Dakota Access Pipeline permit
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Cory Doctorow In Does The Online Card Payment Landscape Unwittingly Facilitate Fraud?, a new paper in IEEE Security & Privacy, researchers from the University of Newcastle demonstrate a technique for guessing secruity… Read the rest of the article: Crooks can guess Visa card details in six seconds by querying lots of websites at once
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Cory Doctorow "I look at this election not as a victory for Mr. Trump, who wins the election as the most unpopular candidate in perhaps the history of our country, but as… Read the rest of the article: Bernie Sanders: Trump didn't win the election, the Democrats lost it
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Cory Doctorow Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an authoritarian war criminal who is part of the worldwide surge of trumpist leaders and hopefuls, including Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte; Hungary's Viktor Orbán;… Read the rest of the article: Global trumpism: how India's brutal leader manufactures reality with trumped-up "polls"
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Cory Doctorow Yesterday, Wesley Clark Jr — son of retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark — met with North Dakota law enforcement officials on behalf of the 2,100 members of the Veterans… Read the rest of the article: 2,100+ veterans pledge to build barracks to help Dakota Access Pipeline water defenders survive the winter
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Cory Doctorow Though the October polls that predicted a great showing for the Pirate Party in the Icelandic elections turned out to be wrong, that election did end with a deeply divided… Read the rest of the article: Pirate Party invited to form Iceland's next government
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Cory Doctorow James Delingpole is an invective-hurling anti-climate science columnist who has candidly admitted that he doesn't bother to read scientific papers, calling himself a "an interpreter of interpretations."
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Cory Doctorow Trump's Muslim database promise was extreme, even by Trump's standards; worse news, the US tech industry has built out a surveillance capability that would let him do it.
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Cory Doctorow Every year, the Religious Liberty Project puts Festivus poles on the lawns of public buildings that sport Christian religious holiday symbols; this year, RLP's Chaz Stevens put a "Distrestivus" pole… Read the rest of the article: Florida atheists pair public nativity scene with a combustible Trump-themed Distrestivus pole
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Cory Doctorow Etsy seller Chet Phillips sells his amazing science-fiction/vintage Japanese matchbox art remixes as 5"x7" signed prints with mats and backing boards at $12 each. (via Kadrey)
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Cory Doctorow VP-elect Mike Pence's political career has consisted of a series of attacks on the rights of LGBTQ people and women, and his new neighbors in the navy blue precincts of… Read the rest of the article: Homophobe-in-chief Mike Pence rented a house in DC, so his new neighbors are flying rainbow flags
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Cory Doctorow The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab (previously) continues its excellent work, this time with a deep investigative piece on a sneaky form of censorship in China's popular We Chat service,… Read the rest of the article: China's We Chat "shadow-bans" messages with forbidden keywords, but only for China-based accounts
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Cory Doctorow Last February, Carrier announced that it was offshoring its US air-conditioner manufacturing jobs to Mexico, despite having made a $7.6B profit that year, despite having received more than $6B in… Read the rest of the article: Bernie Sanders: Trump just used your taxes to reward Carrier for offshoring American jobs
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Cory Doctorow Hinterland's Pink Sea Urchin Jellyfish are a $13 set of three air plants (Oxacana, Scaposa, Medusa) set in 2-3.5" sea-urchin shells that you hang in a way that simulates jellyfish… Read the rest of the article: Air plants in sea urchin shells
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Cory Doctorow A pair of data-scientists in Washington State are convening a meeting of "Data Scientists, Data Science Enthusiasts, and Advocates for Civic Liberties and Social Justice" who want to figure out… Read the rest of the article: Washington data scientists: a chance to figure out how to use your skills for good