Friday, January 13, 2017
Justice Dept. internal watchdog to investigate FBI’s Clinton inquiry The inquiry by the Justice Department's inspector general, likely to keep open the wounds of the bitter 2016 presidential race, will focus on whether "policies or procedures were not followed" by the FBI and Justice …Monday, December 19, 2016
Prenda Law “copyright trolls” Steele and Hansmeier arrested Justice.Friday, December 16, 2016
NBC stupidly shutting down Breaking News app, service The decision, as it often does in the media business, came down to revenue. "Unfortunately, despite its consumer appeal, Breaking News has not been able to generate enough revenue to sustain itself," Ascheim said in the letter supplied by NBC …Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Wells Fargo Killing Sham Account Suits by Using Arbitration [Jennifer] Zeleny, a lawyer who lives outside Salt Lake City and opened a Wells Fargo account when she started a new law practice, said it would be impossible for her to agree to arbitrate her dispute over an account that she had never …Monday, November 28, 2016
‘Dark Meat’ by Gabriel Thompson Failing to record injuries is one strategy to create the illusion of a safe workplace. Another is to fail to refer workers to doctors for proper tests and diagnoses. Each time an injury causes an employee to miss a day of work or to receive medical …Thursday, November 17, 2016
FCC abides by GOP request, deletes everything from meeting agenda Wheeler's attempt to impose new set-top box rules that help consumers avoid paying cable box rental fees may also be doomed. Consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge sent a letter to Trump today urging him to side with consumers …Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Dropbox employee’s password reuse led to theft of 60M+ user credentials Kate Conger, reporting at TechCrunch: Dropbox disclosed in 2012 that an employee’s password was acquired and used to access a document with email addresses, but did not disclose that passwords were also acquired in the theft. …Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above Pritchett had no idea that as he spoke, a small Cessna airplane equipped with a sophisticated array of cameras was circling Baltimore at roughly the same altitude as the massing clouds. The plane’s wide-angle cameras captured an area of …Thursday, July 7, 2016
NJ law would require pet stores sell only rescue animals John C. Ensslin reports for The Record: New pet stores in New Jersey would be allowed to sell only cats and dogs obtained from shelters, pounds and animal rescue organization under a bill the state Senate passed Thursday. The bill still has …Thursday, May 12, 2016
A Slack bot to alert about missing children [caption id=“attachment_2481” align=“aligncenter” width=“700”]Slack screenshot of MissingKidsBot[/caption] From the product page of MissingKidsBot, built by David Markovich and Daniel Doubrovkine: According to the …Monday, March 7, 2016
Apple users targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaign Jim Finkle reports for Reuters: Hackers infected Macs through a tainted copy of a popular program known as Transmission, which is used to transfer data through the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing network, Palo Alto said on a blog …Thursday, March 3, 2016
The perils of marriage equality Professor Kimberly Mutcherson of Rutgers Law School writes at Concurring Opinions about Professor Katherine Franke’s recent book ‘Wedlocked: the Perils of Marriage Equality’: We do not want to reinforce familial hierarchies by forcing people into …Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Enough with the conspiracy theories about Justice Scalia’s death I read this earlier today: "As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia," William O. Ritchie wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday, according to reports. After seeking to cast doubt …Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Google begins rolling out free internet to public housing in Fiber cities This is a big deal. I worked at the Philadelphia Housing Authority for years and talked to a lot of kids and adults about their desire to get online. Philly isn’t yet on Google’s Fiber expansion roadmap, but this …Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Retiring founder wants $1M for his SCOTUS audio archive Oyez is a robust archive of audio recordings and other information spanning much of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States. Its founder Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Jerry Goldman is looking for a buyer as he nears …Saturday, January 23, 2016
LucasFilm to toy vendors: No Rey Michael Boehm at Sweatpants and Coffee: The insider, who was at those meetings, described how initial versions of many of the products presented to Lucasfilm featured Rey prominently. At first, discussions were positive, but as the meetings wore on, one or more …Thursday, January 14, 2016
U.S. DOT paving way for self-driving cars
Chris Ziegler reports at The Verge:
DOT and NHTSA will develop the new tools necessary for this new era of vehicle safety and mobility, and will seek new authorities when they are necessary to ensure that fully autonomous vehicles, including those …
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
More than 13,000 untested rape kits in Florida This bit sent shivers down my spine: After Detroit processed a backlog of 11,000 rape kits, police identified more than 100 serial rape suspects. Why shivers? Because it instantly prompts me to wonder how many women were raped who wouldn’t have …Thursday, December 31, 2015
Bill Cosby charged with sexual assault in Pennsylvania The TV legend is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand when she visited his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. A probable cause affidavit filed by investigators this week alleges that …Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Is sending porn illegal in Pennsylvania? Dave Davies writes on his WHYY blog, Off Mic: It's right there in the state crimes code; it's a third-class misdemeanor to "sell, lend, distribute, transmit, exhibit, or give away or show any obscene materials to any person 18 years of age or older..." …Thursday, December 24, 2015
Katie Floyd’s 3 Tips For Family Tech Support Great advice for every geek dreading the holiday “Can you help me with my computer?” conversations.Friday, December 18, 2015
Laser-armed fighter jets by 2020 Thom Patterson writes for CNN: Here's how Air Force special ops might use them: The commander of USAF special ops, Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, said last September that by 2020 he wants them on C-130J Ghostrider gunships for landing zone protection. The laser weapons …Monday, December 14, 2015
Machine Intelligence In The Real World [...] Textio is a text editor that recommends improvements to job descriptions as you type. With it, I can go from a 40th percentile job description to a 90th percentile one in just a few minutes, all thanks to a beautifully presented machine learning …Thursday, December 10, 2015
“A slower-track school where they do well” I’m just going to leave this Justice Scalia quote right here: There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a …Friday, November 27, 2015
Israeli Supreme Court Rejects Family Petition To Bury Trans Woman As Their “Son" Peleg, who was 31, had long been concerned about a battle with her ultra-orthodox family after her death. Their beliefs forbid cremation, and she worried they would attempt to have a religious burial under her …Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Adele’s ‘25’ on Pandora Pandora confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that every track from Adele'e new album is available through its radio service. That's not going to be a particularly great way of listening to 25 — because Pandora is a radio service, it means you can't choose what …Thursday, November 19, 2015
Vizio TVs spy on you, here’s how to disable it Vizio’s technology works by analyzing snippets of the shows you’re watching, whether on traditional television or streaming Internet services such as Netflix. Vizio determines the date, time, channel of programs — as well as whether you watched …Thursday, November 12, 2015
Is the Russian kamikaze sub misinformation or an inadvertent warning to the West? Apparently, The screen capture depicts a project called "Ocean Multipurpose System 'Status-6.'" The weapon would apparently be delivered by a nuclear-powered underwater drone, carried externally by a nuclear …Thursday, November 12, 2015
Russian Ships Too Close to Data Cables for U.S. Comfort The first of two this-is-really-concerning posts you’ll find here today: The role of the cables is more important than ever before. They carry global business worth more than $10 trillion a day, including from financial institutions that …Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Apple has learned nothing from Microsoft’s Surface - The Verge iPad sales are indeed down, but it does not follow from that fact that iPad use is down. This Time article did the yeoman’s work of aggregating some data about iPad sales. The bottom line is that in the five years since the …