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  • Cory Doctorow
    8:01 am Wed, Dec 19, 2018
    Before Tumblr switched off access to NSFW blogs, it blocked archivists who were trying to preserve them

    When Tumblr announced its plan to purge "female-presenting nipples from its service, the volunteer Archive Team leapt into action, working furiously to preserve years of material before Tumblr tore a… Read the rest of the article: Before Tumblr switched off access to NSFW blogs, it blocked archivists who were trying to preserve them

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  • Cory Doctorow
    7:42 am Wed, Dec 19, 2018
    The new Neuromancer cover is amazing

    Designed by Jon Gray and available for pre-order next week (ISBN: 9780441007462): Gibson loves it.

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  • Cory Doctorow
    7:33 am Wed, Dec 19, 2018
    Molly Crabapple's illustrated report from the immigration detention Gulags of Texas

    The intrepid and brilliant artist and journalist Molly Crabapple (previously) traveled to the immigration detention centers of the Rio Grande and interviewed and sketched the people she met there.

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  • Cory Doctorow
    7:14 am Wed, Dec 19, 2018
    Even after you turn off Facebook location tracking, Facebook tracks your location

    Facebook is a model of offering incredible, nuanced privacy protections to its users, allowing them to configure exactly how much of their data they want to share and how they… Read the rest of the article: Even after you turn off Facebook location tracking, Facebook tracks your location

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  • Cory Doctorow
    12:33 pm Tue, Dec 18, 2018
    Livetweeting a toothbrush's firmware update

    When your toothbrush is part of the Internet of Shit, sometimes you need to update its firmware, and when that happens, sometimes you have to decide whether your toothbrush will… Read the rest of the article: Livetweeting a toothbrush's firmware update

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:06 am Tue, Dec 18, 2018
    Malaysia charges Goldman Sachs with criminal complicity in multi-billion-dollar 1MDB fraud

    In 2015, a scandal involving the state-owned 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund brought down the country's authoritarian government, amid allegations that the disgraced ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak and his retinue embezzled… Read the rest of the article: Malaysia charges Goldman Sachs with criminal complicity in multi-billion-dollar 1MDB fraud

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  • Cory Doctorow
    9:47 am Tue, Dec 18, 2018
    Lawsuit: US citizen suing CBP for coercing him into unlocking his phone during boarding at LAX

    Haisam Elsharkawi is a US citizen of Egyptian descent who was travelling to Mecca in 2017 when he was pulled out the boarding line for his flight from LAX by… Read the rest of the article: Lawsuit: US citizen suing CBP for coercing him into unlocking his phone during boarding at LAX

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  • Cory Doctorow
    8:30 am Tue, Dec 18, 2018
    Sony won't let you post "crap recordings" of a few seconds of your own Beethoven piano performance

    Back when Sony's fraudulent copyright claims resulted in a 47 second recording of pianist James Rhodes playing Bach, apologists argued that Sony and Youtube's copyright bots couldn't be expected to… Read the rest of the article: Sony won't let you post "crap recordings" of a few seconds of your own Beethoven piano performance

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  • Cory Doctorow
    8:23 am Tue, Dec 18, 2018
    Kansas judge tells government debt collectors they can't hound a broke 58-year-old woman until her 84th birthday

    In 1991, Vicky Jo Metz borrowed $16,613 to pay for tuition; now she's 59, and has paid back 90% of that money — and she still owes $67,277.

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  • Cory Doctorow
    8:10 am Tue, Dec 18, 2018
    Charter will pay $174.2m for defrauding New Yorkers over data speeds, the largest settlement ever paid by a US ISP

    Charter-Spectrum has settled a lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General that accused the company of defrauding New Yorkers through false advertising about the data-speeds they could expect from… Read the rest of the article: Charter will pay $174.2m for defrauding New Yorkers over data speeds, the largest settlement ever paid by a US ISP

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  • Cory Doctorow
    8:01 am Tue, Dec 18, 2018
    Tumblr's porn filter blocked Tumblr's images illustrating what Tumblr's porn filter won't block

    Yesterday, despite the manifest, glaring problems with its porn filter, Tumblr turned on mandatory porn-blocking for all its users' content, so that anything that its bots identified a pornographic would… Read the rest of the article: Tumblr's porn filter blocked Tumblr's images illustrating what Tumblr's porn filter won't block

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  • Cory Doctorow
    7:50 am Tue, Dec 18, 2018
    Debunking "ghost users": MI5's plan to backdoor all secure messaging platforms

    When lawmakers and cops propose banning working cryptography (as they often do in the USA), or ban it outright (as they just did in Australia), they are long on talk… Read the rest of the article: Debunking "ghost users": MI5's plan to backdoor all secure messaging platforms

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  • Cory Doctorow
    7:20 am Tue, Dec 18, 2018
    Elizabeth Warren's new bill: let the US government manufacture generic versions of overpriced, unavailable drugs

    Senator Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill called the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act, which allows the US government to manufacture generic versions of drugs "in cases in which no company… Read the rest of the article: Elizabeth Warren's new bill: let the US government manufacture generic versions of overpriced, unavailable drugs

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  • Cory Doctorow
    12:41 pm Mon, Dec 17, 2018
    Kickstarting mosaics made from precious stones and marble that replicate 16th-century anatomical drawings

    John Unger writes, "Using marble, stone and precious gems, I am creating a series of 14 mosaics that replicate 16th century anatomical engravings. Each mosaic is 7' x 4' and… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting mosaics made from precious stones and marble that replicate 16th-century anatomical drawings

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:59 am Mon, Dec 17, 2018
    Arizona realtor surprised to find Canadian "white hat" hacker talking to him through his smart doorbell

    Arizona realtor Andy Gregg's Nest doorbell/camera started talking to him: the voice on the other end identified itself as a Canadian "white hat" security researcher who'd broken into his camera… Read the rest of the article: Arizona realtor surprised to find Canadian "white hat" hacker talking to him through his smart doorbell

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:50 am Mon, Dec 17, 2018
    False Flag: my science fiction story about the future of copyright filters in an Article 13 Europe

    The Green European Journal has published a package on the proposed new European Copyright Directive: first, an outstanding interview with the rebel Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda (previously); and then… Read the rest of the article: False Flag: my science fiction story about the future of copyright filters in an Article 13 Europe

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:22 am Mon, Dec 17, 2018
    Internal sources say googler uprising has killed Google's plans to launch a censored, spying Chinese search engine

    The employee uprising over Google's secret "Project Dragonfly — a plan to release a censored, surveilling search engine for use in China — has reportedly attained its goals: some of… Read the rest of the article: Internal sources say googler uprising has killed Google's plans to launch a censored, spying Chinese search engine

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  • Cory Doctorow
    9:02 am Mon, Dec 17, 2018
    Google's secretive, data-hungry private city within Toronto will be much larger than previously disclosed

    Google's Sidewalk Labs convinced Toronto to let it build an all-surveilling "smart city" on a small patch of lakefront and then promptly shenaniganized things, breaking all its privacy and transparency… Read the rest of the article: Google's secretive, data-hungry private city within Toronto will be much larger than previously disclosed

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  • Cory Doctorow
    8:09 am Mon, Dec 17, 2018
    Chestburster Christmas Ornament (and other delights)

    The Alien Chestburster Christmas Ornament is just the thing to finish your nerdmas tree; it's from Pittsburgh's Creature Replicas, who will also sell you a life-size 'burster, a fossil Tremors… Read the rest of the article: Chestburster Christmas Ornament (and other delights)

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  • Cory Doctorow
    7:38 am Mon, Dec 17, 2018
    Classic Christmas covers from computer magazines of the bygone era

    More outstanding paleocomputing Christmas cheer from Paleotronics (previously): a trove of 55 Christmas covers of classic computer magazines, include lamented bygones like Creative Computing.

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