BestBuy puts GeForce RTX 30 cards behind a paywall, scalpers rejoice
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BestBuy Totaltech membership is a total disaster BestBuy made an “NFT move” in a retailer space. Bestbuy Totaltech membership, Source: BestBuy By introducing its $200/y premium membership program called Totaltech, customers have access to a special protection…
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Big Tech Sold Out on Its Promise of an Open Internet
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Big Tech Sold Out on Its Promise of an Open Internet
A new report from the Tech Oversight Project shows how tech giants have shifted their priorities under the threat of antitrust action.
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After 20 years, the U.S. Army is shutting down its recruitment video game, ‘America’s Army’
https://www.fastcompany.com/90720653/after-20-years-the-u-s-army-is-shutting-down-its-recruitment-video-game-americas-army
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After 20 years, the U.S. Army is shutting down its recruitment video game, ‘America’s Army’
After decades of enlisting gamers in the U.S. military, ‘America’s Army’ leaves a lasting legacy of video games as recruitment tools.
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Running Zoom on a Mac? It may be listening to you right now
https://www.macworld.com/article/613921/zoom-monterey-microphone-turned-on.html
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Zoom claims open mic Mac bug 'did not result in audio data being transmitted'
Numerous Monterey users say Zoom is leaving the microphone on after a meeting has ended.
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Drug dealer busted after picture of his hand holding cocaine showed fingerprints
https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/11/drug-dealer-busted-after-picture-of-his-hand-showed-fingerprints-16091399/
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Drug dealer busted after picture of his hand holding cocaine showed fingerprints
Stephen Hart, 54, from Greenhill, Kent, showed off a large rock of cocaine in a picture shared via EncroChat, a dark web messaging service.
Meta Wouldn’t Tell Us How It Enforces Its Rules In VR, So We Ran A Test To Find Out
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Meta Wouldn’t Tell Us How It Enforces Its Rules In VR, So We Ran A Test To Find Out
Facebook’s parent company declined to answer our questions about how it moderates content in VR, so we created a test Horizon World filled with content banned from Facebook and Instagram. Content moderators said the world was fine — until we told Meta’s PR…
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Senator Blumenthal, After Years Of Denial, Admits He's Targeting Encryption With EARN IT
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220210/09311048445/senator-blumenthal-after-years-denial-admits-hes-targeting-encryption-with-earn-it.shtml
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Senator Blumenthal, After Years Of Denial, Admits He's Targeting Encryption With EARN IT
Senator Richard Blumenthal has now admitted that EARN IT is targeting encryption, something he denied for two years, and then just out and said it. Since the very beginning many of us have pointed …
Horrific allegations of racism prompt California lawsuit against Tesla
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-02-11/la-fi-tesla-race-discrimination-lawsuit
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Horrific allegations of racism prompt California lawsuit against Tesla
Racist slurs were hurled daily at Black workers at Tesla’s California plant, delivered not just by fellow employees but also by managers and supervisors, California’s civil rights agency alleges in an explosive lawsuit filed against the company Thursday.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink accused of injuring, killing monkeys with brain implants
https://www.wfla.com/news/national/elon-musks-neuralink-accused-of-injuring-killing-monkeys-with-brain-implants/
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US nuclear power plants contain dangerous counterfeit parts, report finds
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/11/22929255/us-nuclear-power-plants-dangerous-counterfeit-parts-nrc-report
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US nuclear power plants contain dangerous counterfeit parts, report finds
It further complicates the environmental debate over nuclear energy.
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Researchers warn that social media may be ‘fundamentally at odds’ with science
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Researchers warn that social media may be ‘fundamentally at odds’ with science
A special set of editorials published in today’s issue of the journal Science argue that social media in its current form may well be fundamentally broken for the purposes of presenting and disseminating facts and reason. The algorithms are running the show…
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Nintendo says thank you after hacker Gary Bowser is given 40-month sentence
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Nintendo says thank you after hacker Gary Bowser is given 40-month sentence
Bowser had been a member of the Team Xecuter hacking group—the DOJ called him a “prominent leader”—that had been creating and selling Nintendo hacking devices since at...
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Eileen Gu defends China’s internet freedom. Her message is censored.
https://www.protocol.com/china/eileen-gu-olympics-vpn-china
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Eileen Gu defends China’s internet freedom. Her message is censored.
The contentious comment: “anyone can download a vpn its literally free on the App Store.”
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A Hacker Group Has Been Framing People for Crimes They Didn't Commit
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A Hacker Group Has Been Framing People for Crimes They Didn't Commit
A recent study shows the tactics and techniques of a cybercrime group that is known for planting incriminating evidence on the devices of activists in India.
A robot bought my seven-year-old car for more than I paid brand-new
https://www.theverge.com/22923871/carvana-pandemic-used-car-prices-sold-online-chip-shortage
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A robot bought my seven-year-old car for more than I paid brand-new
At Carvana, the algorithm is king.
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Former Amazon employee sentenced to 10 months in prison for involvement in bribery scheme
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/11/former-amazon-employee-sentenced-to-10-months-in-bribery-scheme.html
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Former Amazon employee sentenced to 10 months in prison for involvement in bribery scheme
The DOJ in 2020 indicted six individuals, including two former Amazon employees, for allegedly bribing insiders to gain an upper hand on the online marketplace.
The U.S. Is Pumping $5 Billion Into EV Charging Stations
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The U.S. Is Pumping $5 Billion Into EV Charging Stations
The plan will put half a million charging stations along interstate highways.
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Binance invests $200 million in Forbes just two years after suing it for defamation
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/11/22929860/forbes-binance-spac-razzlekhan-web3-cryptocurrency
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Binance invests $200 million in Forbes just two years after suing it for defamation
Binance is investing in Forbes’ "incredible brand"
France joins Austria in finding Google Analytics illegal
https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/france-joins-austria-says-google-analytics-data-not-protected-in-us/
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EURACTIV
France joins Austria in finding Google Analytics illegal
Google does not sufficiently guarantee it protects European's data gathered via Google Analytics, France's data watchdog CNIL announced on Thursday (10 February). With Austria having recently issued a similar decision, the days of Google Analytics in Europe…
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MoviePass will track people’s eyes through their phone’s cameras to make sure they don’t look away from ads.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/moviepass-track-eyes-phone-cameras-b2013273.html
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MoviePass will track people’s eyes through their phone to make sure they see ads
MoviePass head Stacy Spikes said that they wanted to avoid people putting down the phone and avoiding the ads
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New MoviePass App Will Use Eye Tracking To Force You To Watch Ads
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New MoviePass App Will Use Eye Tracking To Force You To Watch Ads
MoviePass is back, and it already sounds horrific.
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