Facebook is not responsible for bad speech by its users — section 230 of the US Telecommunications Act says that libel and other forms of prohibited speech are the responsibility… Read the rest of the article: Leaked Facebook docs: weird censorship standards that protect "white men but not black children"
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Cory Doctorow Jason Leopold (previously — Buzzfeed's public records activist, once branded a "FOIA terrorist" by the US government — has secured records of an investigation into gross offenses by an unnamed… Read the rest of the article: Office of the Director of National Intelligence admits its employee held down 15 other jobs and played games all day
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Cory Doctorow Zach Coffin's amazing Temple of Gravity installations involve suspending enormous masses of stone and other heavy objects in exquisitely counterbalanced mechanisms that allow people to scramble over them, move them,… Read the rest of the article: Crowdfunding a visit from the 180,000lb Temple of Gravity at this year's Burning Man
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Cory Doctorow Steve Boyett writes, "The NRA sells fear because fear sells guns, and selling guns is really what the NRA is all about. For decades they've insisted that the 2nd Amendment… Read the rest of the article: NRA ads says Americans need guns to shoot "the Resistance"
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Cory Doctorow Atul Gawande (previously) is a highly respected expert on systems thinking, preventative medicine and dying with dignity has published an excellent editorial about the medical shortcomings of the Senate GOP's… Read the rest of the article: Atul Gawande on the importance of preventative care and the disastrous Senate "health" bill
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Cory Doctorow The Fresno, California Sheriff's Department raided a "beehive chop shop" and uncovered $1m worth of bees stolen in "great beehive heists" that have taken place across the bee-starved state.
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Cory Doctorow Disney has denied rumors that the Trumpbot in Disney World's Hall of the Presidents would not have a speaking role due to a combination of the president's toxic reputation, Disney… Read the rest of the article: Disney World's Hall of Presidents Trumpbot will speak after all
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Cory Doctorow Phil Foglio (previously) writes, "Studio Foglio is kickstarting a new Girl Genius Collection! The Incorruptible Library covers the adventures of Agatha Heterodyne and her friends as they journey beneath the… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting a new Girl Genius collection
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Cory Doctorow McMansion Hell is a hilarious blog where Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute graduate student Kate Wagner posts scorching critiques of the architecture of McMansions — but this week, Wagner announced that… Read the rest of the article: EFF will defend McMansion Hell from Zillow's copyfraudulent bullying
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Cory Doctorow University of Tulsa security researchers Jason Staggs and his colleagues will present Adventures in Attacking Wind Farm Control Networks at this year's Black Hat conference, detailing the work they did… Read the rest of the article: Researchers demonstrate attack for pwning entire wind-farms
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Cory Doctorow Rep Jeb Hensarling [R-TX/+1 202 225-3484/@RepHensarling] is the sponsor of HR 10, the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017, which will ban investors from putting petitions to the shareholders and board… Read the rest of the article: Texas Congresscritter wants to gag small investors who object to large CEO paychecks
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Cory Doctorow A China Southern Airlines Flight from Shanghai to Guangzhou was delayed for five hours while maintenance workers fished nine coins out of the engine, whence they had been flung "for… Read the rest of the article: Travel tip: don't throw coins into your plane's engine "for blessings"
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Cory Doctorow Researchers from Politecnico di Milano and Trend Micro conducted an audit of the information security design of commonly used industrial robots and found that these devices are extremely insecure: robots… Read the rest of the article: Industrial robotics security is really, really terrible
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Cory Doctorow Yesterday's massive ransomware outbreak of a mutant, NSA-supercharged strain of the Petya malware is still spreading, but the malware's author made a mere $10K off it and will likely not… Read the rest of the article: Ransomware crook's email provider shuts down account, so now no one can pay their ransom
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Cory Doctorow FIFA is the scandal-haunted governing body for world soccer/football; their internal report on corruption has leaked and it reveals a widespread culture of bribery and other corrupt practices.
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Cory Doctorow Theresa May's national government — Conservative party MPs who are also landlords, who scuttled housing safety rules as part of their declared war on "Safety Culture" — found £1B to… Read the rest of the article: UK government won't promise help to remove highly flammable high-rise cladding
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Cory Doctorow Charlie Chaplin's 1940 movie The Great Dictator features one of the greatest anti-authoritarian speeches of all time, so it's no surprise that Thailand's censorship-crazed king is abusing his country's grotesque… Read the rest of the article: Thailand's thin-skinned king demands Youtube take down Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"
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Cory Doctorow The owners of Toronto's "Trump Hotel" just spent a reported $6M to get out of its deal with Trump and cleanse their property of his hated name; they will probably… Read the rest of the article: Desperate Toronto hotelier pays millions to take Trump name off its business
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Cory Doctorow Starting July 1, the official Android and Apple App stores will no longer allow Chinese users to download the VPN apps that Chinese people rely upon in order to get… Read the rest of the article: China orders mobile app stores to remove VPN apps
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Cory Doctorow Verizon's using its purchase of Yahoo for more than undermining the fight for net neutrality: it's also using its new acquisitions to make anti-competitive moves against its telcoms rivals, deploying… Read the rest of the article: Verizon bought Yahoo, so Flickr and Tumblr users with AT&T email addresses are being cut off