Man hacks his prosthetic arm to control music synthesizer with his thoughts

Man creates fake traffic jam on Google Maps by carting around 99 cellphones

New machine learning algorithm produces "near-perfect" fake human faces

GE fridges refuse to work unless water filter is 'official', via RFID chip

Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers

I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later

Your cyberpunk games are dangerous (2015)

Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser

Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law

In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis

New demand for very old farm tractors specifically because they're low tech

The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy

Apple told TV Plus showrunners to avoid plots that might upset Chinese officials

Foreigners Visiting China Are Increasingly Stumped By Its Cashless Society

GIF Site Gfycat Announces Mass Deletions, Threatens Archive Team With Lawsuit

In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks

Google's Sidewalk Labs plans private taxation, cops, judges, punishes privacy

YouTube demonetizing videos where LGBTQ keywords are said

Punishing Blizzard for anti-HK partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests

LA is going to get cheap nighttime power from a massive solar and battery array in the Mojave

Elsevier: “It's Illegal to Sci-Hub. We Link to Sci-Hub All the Time.”

Wework loses $5200/customer, lost $1.3B in H1/2019

Training bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored

YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

Banksy's art authentication system displays top-notch cryptographic nous

Claiming your $125 from Equifax is a “moral duty”

“I'm 10-15”: the secret CBP Facebook group

Cycling to work through cavernous limestone mines turned into a business park

Samba versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects

Swedish ISP Blocks Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub

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