human rights A 1×1 tracking pixel was used as evidence of treason against 30,000 Turks, sent tens of thousands to jail Cory Doctorow
jeffrey epstein The "Jeffrey Epstein's Financial Assistant Scheme" is a 2020 twist on the classic Nigerian Prince Scam Thom Dunn
facial recognition NIST confirms that facial recognition is a racist, sexist dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow
kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow
fake news There is no chemical that will turn pool water a different color if you pee in it David Pescovitz
security Independent evaluation of "aggression detection" microphones used in schools and hospitals finds them to be worse than useless Cory Doctorow
google Gmail's automated spam-filtering is making it much harder to run an independent mail-server Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Artists against Article 13: when Big Tech and Big Content make a meal of creators, it doesn't matter who gets the bigger piece Cory Doctorow
music THE BUREAU: Part Nine, "Your Sandwich Speaks!" — with SBaGen-based Digital Drugs for New Year's Eve Ethan Persoff
Gadgets Generative adversarial network produces a "universal fingerprint" that will unlock many smartphones Cory Doctorow
music THE BUREAU: Part Three, "Assessing Others" — with a Metasonix D-2000 Vacuum Tube Drum Machine Ethan Persoff
security Researchers claim to have permanently neutralized ad-blocking's most promising weapons Cory Doctorow
Business The ACLU showed that Amazon's facial recognition system thinks members of Congress are felons, so now Congress is taking action Cory Doctorow
uk Welsh police deployed facial recognition tech with a 92% false positive rate, but they're sure it's fine Cory Doctorow
