Not everything is legal in New Jersey: Uber has to pay the state of New Jersey $650m in unemployment and disability tax for the employee drivers that it pretended were… Read the rest of the article: Uber pretended its drivers were contractors, and now it owes New Jersey $650m in employment tax
Mysterious Galaxy is a wonderful, longstanding science fiction bookstore, host to readings for the Clarion Workshop, designated bookseller for Comic-Con signings, and much more.
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party have pledged universal, free broadband and a nationwide fibre buildout by 2030 if elected; they plan to renationalise parts of BT and tax Big Tech to… Read the rest of the article: Labour pledges universal broadband and nationwide fibre, will renationalise the farcical, terrible BT Openreach
Geneva ("Genetic Evasion") is a project from the University of Maryland's Breakerspace ("a lab dedicated to scaling-up undergraduate research in computer and network security"); in a paper presented today at… Read the rest of the article: Genetic Evasion: using genetic algorithms to beat state-level internet censorship
Daniel Moghimi, Berk Sunar, Thomas Eisenbarth and Nadia Heninger have published TPM-FAIL: TPM meets Timing and Lattice Attacks, their Usenix security paper, which reveals a pair of timing attacks against… Read the rest of the article: Tpmfail: a timing attack that can extract keys from secure computing chips in 4-20 minutes
China's state disinformation campaigns against the Hong Kong protesters are unwelcome on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, with the mainstream platforms shutting down accounts that spread propaganda videos; but increasingly these… Read the rest of the article: Banned from Youtube, Chinese propagandists are using Pornhub to publish anti-Hong Kong videos
Zeynep Tufekci (previously) has been in Hong Kong reporting on the protests for months, and she's witnessed firsthand the failure of every prediction that the uprising would end soon —… Read the rest of the article: Hong Kong protests: "Might as well go down fighting"
Back in 2016, New York Magazine tapped a bunch of people from a variety of backgrounds and asked them to imagine events that might take place over the next eight… Read the rest of the article: A timeline of (possible, fascinating) future events from a (wide) variety of perspectives
Facebook's top lobbyist is so close with rapey Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh that he took the day off to lend Kavanaugh moral support during his confirmation hearing, and then… Read the rest of the article: Activists target Facebookers over "Gold Tier" sponsorship of Kavanaugh event
The energy budget for a traditional shower for every person on the planet would exceed the entire world's (present-day) supply of wind power: even as we bring more renewables online,… Read the rest of the article: "Mist showers": a decadent shower that the planet can sustain
Trump's 2017 #taxscam transferred more than a trillion dollars to the richest people in America, but when Trump talks about it, he likes to tout the bill's "opportunity zone" provisions… Read the rest of the article: Trump's signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida
Cathy "Weapons of Math Destruction" O'Neil wants us to have empathy for Big Tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, who are "monumentally screwed, because they have no idea… Read the rest of the article: Big Tech's CEOs can't possibly fix Big Tech
Surprise billing — when your urgent or emergency medical care results in massive bills that your insurer won't cover — are a life-destroying phenomenon for an increasing number of Americans,… Read the rest of the article: American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies
The Fed's latest figures on American household wealth paint a rosy picture — in the aggregate. US households now own a record-breaking $107T worth of assets!
Today, we are told that the bigness of Big Tech giants was inevitable: the result of "network effects." For example, once everyone you want to talk to is on Facebook,… Read the rest of the article: alt.interoperability.adversarial
Infuriate your racist Facebook uncle this Thanksgiving with a Leopard RBG shirt.
An Australian woman's creepy, violent ex-boyfriend hacked her phone using stalkerware, then used that, along with her car's VIN number, to hack the remote control app for her car (possibly… Read the rest of the article: A woman's stalker compromised her car's app, giving him the ability to track and immobilize it
Kickstarter's workers have been trying to form a union, and they say that the company fired its most prominent union organizers under the pretense of performance issues, but really in… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting a union onboarding kit for workers at Kickstarter (and other tech companies)
Rev.com is a "gig economy" audio transcription company that operates under the fiction that its employees are "independent contractors."
A post called "The Right Way to Reduce Your China Product Costs" on China Law Blog (previously) sounds like pretty anodyne stuff, but it turns out to be a catalog… Read the rest of the article: Before you ask your Chinese factory for a discount, make sure you won't be kidnapped and/or have your product cloned
