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  • Glenn Fleishman
    6:03 pm Tue, Sep 5, 2017
    The Refrigerator Unexpectedly Showed Dick Doodles and Streaming Porn to a Visitor

    In the Internet of Shit, Grosseries Department, a colleague and friend of this reporter who requested anonymity for themselves and their client relayed a story of a Samsung fridge that… Read the rest of the article: The Refrigerator Unexpectedly Showed Dick Doodles and Streaming Porn to a Visitor

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    8:49 am Fri, Aug 7, 2015
    The twisted history of the Happy Birthday song—and the copyright shenanigans that keep it profitable

    I've obtained the 1922 book that demonstrates this classic song should rest in the public domain.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    3:43 pm Thu, Jun 11, 2015
    Twitter adds the most awkward version of blocklist sharing you could imagine

    It's the equivalent of coming to a dessert party with stale celery sticks.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    6:00 am Tue, Apr 28, 2015
    Twitter's got a new troll stick

    New policies at Twitter for reporting, automatic message muting, and enforcement could turn the noise way down for users subject to harassment.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    3:00 am Wed, Feb 25, 2015
    Think you have the right to demand police identify themselves? Look closer.

    Police officers are required to display and provide their identification on request—except when they aren't.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    5:00 am Tue, Feb 24, 2015
    "Stranger Danger" to children vastly overstated

    Oft-cited stats about child abduction puts kidnappers behind every bush. But the numbers are old and frequently mangled, distorting our understanding of genuine risks to children.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    6:20 am Wed, Dec 31, 2014
    Marriott plans to block personal wifi hotspots

    The hotel chain petitioned the FCC for changes that could let venues shut down personal networks. Microsoft, Google, and the cell industry are opposed.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    7:26 am Mon, Dec 29, 2014
    Busting Sex Workers' Clients Increases Demand

    Economist Charles Hill argues attempting to reduce the demand for sex services will backfire, increasing its supply and harming sex workers, free agents and coerced alike.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    11:31 am Thu, Dec 4, 2014
    Amazon mails conveyor belt roller instead of gift

    Glenn Fleishman reports that a goat dairy farmer was not expecting to receive a mysterious green cylinder.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    2:19 pm Tue, Dec 2, 2014
    Twitter takes aim at trolls—and promises more

    Glenn Fleishman explains Twitter's blocking system and its freshly-fortified abuse-reporting tools.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    6:39 am Fri, Nov 14, 2014
    Serial offenders plague Twitter

    Glenn Fleishman reports on how the platform could fix its harassment problem.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    3:30 am Tue, Nov 11, 2014
    iOS's first major malware challenge

    Glenn Fleishman reports on a hack in the wild that may trick users into installing malicious apps. But don't panic! Though potent, the malware has significant real-world limitations.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    1:05 pm Fri, Oct 3, 2014
    FCC fines Marriott $600,000 for jamming hotel Wi-Fi

    A Nashville convention center figured out how to boost its revenue from selling Internet service: it illegally jammed guests' and exhibitors' Wi-Fi networks. Glenn Fleishman explains the technical scam and why it earned a six-figure smackdown.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    7:19 am Fri, Sep 26, 2014
    Ello, what's all this then? An ad-free social network

    A new social micro-blogging network, Ello, is flooded with users during its beta. Ello is predicated on not selling its users out or selling them stuff. Glenn Fleishman suggests it already needs to be held to the fire.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    11:48 am Thu, Sep 25, 2014
    Security cruft means every exploit lives forever

    Security failures will live on forever, because protocols have no sell-by date. Glenn Fleishman exposes the eternity we face with broken software.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    5:41 am Mon, Sep 22, 2014
    The narrative lottery at XOXO

    Glenn Fleishman reports from Portland's beloved arts and technology festival, where a darker sense of mission and meaning took hold in the event's third year.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    7:45 am Mon, Sep 1, 2014
    An algorithm to figure out your gender

    Twitter claims a 90 percent accuracy rate for the clever techniques it uses to learn the gender of any given user. Glenn Fleishman reports on the company's disconcerting new analytics tools, the research behind them, and how large a pinch of salt they come with.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    6:36 am Mon, Aug 11, 2014
    How collaborative social blocking could bring sanity to social networks

    Platforms such as Twitter have been curiously uneager to deal with harassers, trolls and other online ne'er-do-wells. Glenn Fleishman on the latest third-party tools created to bring power back to the users.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    6:54 am Mon, Aug 4, 2014
    Why you have to make your own rules for love and sex

    Author Sarah Mirk never tells readers what they should do in bed, writes Glenn Fleishman, only what they might do.

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  • Glenn Fleishman
    6:52 am Wed, Jul 23, 2014
    Web Trackers Paint a Fresh Picture of You

    Glenn Fleishman on the tricky new user-tracking method that sees through privacy controls.

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