Apple's Faceid — a facial recognition tool that unlocks mobile devices — has a countermeasure that is designed to prevent attackers from scanning an sleeping/unconscious (or dead) person's face to… Read the rest of the article: Defeating Apple's Faceid's proof-of-life by putting tape over glasses' lenses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HznFMXNHRBk I am addicted to Thinkpads in large part because of the trackpoint (AKA "The Nipple") — the little wiggly joystickbetween the G, H and B keys that allows me… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting a clever, tiny wireless mouse/presentation controller designed for tight spaces
Malibu Media (previously) is the nom-de-lawsuit for Colette Pelissier and Brigham Feld, notorious copyright troll pornographers who send "speculative invoices" to people whom they accuse of downloading the pornography and… Read the rest of the article: Schadenfreude watch: Porno copyright trolls' investors sue, say the grifters they backed stole their money (the grifters say their lawyer stole the money from them first!)
The Folio Society's limited, slipcased editions (previously) are some of the most beautiful books being produced today; the company's $225 Marvel: The Golden Age 1939-1949 ships in late September, and… Read the rest of the article: The Folio Society is releasing a facsimile of Marvel Comics #1
In October 2018, Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was invited to speak at the Manhattan Republican club, drawing neo-Nazi supporters and antifa protesters; Proud Boy thugs waded into the protest… Read the rest of the article: Manhattan DA served Google with a "reverse search warrant" in a bid to prosecute antifa protesters
More bad news for Google's beleaguered spinoff Jigsaw, whose flagship project is "Perspective," a machine-learning system designed to catch and interdict harassment, hate-speech and other undesirable online speech.
She's called Cardi B because her family nickname, Bacardi, couldn't get past the trademark defensebots on Instagram!
I've been following the Modern Monetary Theory debate for about 18 months, and I'm largely a convert: governments spend money into existence and tax it out of existence, and government… Read the rest of the article: My appearance on the MMT podcast: compelling narratives as a means of advancing complex political and economic ideas
"The Ohio State University" is apparently the full name of Ohio State, and to remind everyone of it, they're selling a line of clothing emblazoned with the stark word "THE,"… Read the rest of the article: Ohio State University files for a trademark on "THE"
Dorothy is an (alleged) 15-year-old who has attained Twitter fame by hopping from device to device as her mother finds and confiscates her tools: first her phone, then her Nintendo,… Read the rest of the article: Grounded teen evades device confiscation by tweeting from the smart-fridge
Ken "Popehat" White (previously) has expanded on his excellent Twitter thread about Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in jail, and just how (shamefully) normal it is for prisoners to die in custody… Read the rest of the article: If you think Jeffrey Epstein was murdered because no prison would treat an inmate that negligently…
In May 2018, Google faced a series of public resignations and scandals over a secret internal project to supply AI tools to the Pentagon's drone warfare project; then, in August… Read the rest of the article: Deep look at the Googler Uprising, drawing on insider interviews
The Duke Law and Technology Review has released a special edition dedicated to examining the legal and philosophical legacy of John Perry Barlow: co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; junior… Read the rest of the article: The Past and Future of The Internet: A Symposium for John Perry Barlow
David Howard, McSweeney's: "Let me tell you, it's hard out here for an orc. We experience tremendous insecurity, not knowing whether we'll have a job, or be able to raid… Read the rest of the article: The only path to victory in the Middle Earth election is to appeal to the moderate orc voter
Economists are famously fragile about their field; after all, this is the field that created a fake Nobel prize to give its practitioners the veneer of credibility and empiricism that… Read the rest of the article: "Productivity" is a perfect example of the pseudscience underpinning economics
All the Democratic frontrunners outpoll Trump, but Bernie beats him 50-42 in a new Surveyusa poll; Biden has the same margin, while Warren and Harris have leads that are smaller… Read the rest of the article: If the election was held today, Bernie would beat Trump by 8 points
Sometimes, it's hard to prove that your shitty boss violated federal labor law by threatening to fire you for talking to a union organizer. Sometimes, it's not. See you in… Read the rest of the article: Barstool Sports' president posts illegal termination threat against employees considering unionization
Uber — a bezzle — projected $8b in losses this year; but it lost more than $5b in a single quarter, and despite an initial stock price rise (dead cat… Read the rest of the article: As Uber's stock craters amid billions in unanticipated losses, a hiring freeze on engineers
Last summer, we published a comprehensive look at the ways that Facebook could and should open up its data so that users could control their experience on the service, and… Read the rest of the article: Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay "Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle, published today on EFF's Deeplinks; it's another in the series of "adversarial interoperability" explainers, this… Read the rest of the article: Podcast: Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle
