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
I've obtained the 1922 book that demonstrates this classic song should rest in the public domain.
It's the equivalent of coming to a dessert party with stale celery sticks.
New policies at Twitter for reporting, automatic message muting, and enforcement could turn the noise way down for users subject to harassment.
Police officers are required to display and provide their identification on request—except when they aren't.
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.
The hotel chain petitioned the FCC for changes that could let venues shut down personal networks. Microsoft, Google, and the cell industry are opposed.
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.
Glenn Fleishman reports that a goat dairy farmer was not expecting to receive a mysterious green cylinder.
Glenn Fleishman explains Twitter's blocking system and its freshly-fortified abuse-reporting tools.
Glenn Fleishman reports on how the platform could fix its harassment problem.
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.
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.
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.
Security failures will live on forever, because protocols have no sell-by date. Glenn Fleishman exposes the eternity we face with broken software.
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.
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.
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.
Author Sarah Mirk never tells readers what they should do in bed, writes Glenn Fleishman, only what they might do.
Glenn Fleishman on the tricky new user-tracking method that sees through privacy controls.
