China invents the digital totalitarian state
The worrying implications of its social-credit project
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Posted on 2016-12-18T02:57:28+0000
surveillance, whistleblowing, and security engineering
Yesterday morning, Reuters dropped a news story revealing that Yahoo installed a backdoor on their own infrastructure in 2015 in compliance with a secret order from either the FBI or the NSA. While we all know that the US government routinely asks tech companies for surveillance help, a couple aspec...
100 CEOs Have as Much Retirement Savings as 116 Million Americans - Monetary Watch
Submitted by Andrea Germanos via Common Dreams, While many Americans are facing a “frightening retirement reality,” 100 CEOs are looking at “colossal nest eggs” and can look forward to monthly retirement checks of over $250,000 for the rest of their lives. The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) puts...
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Posted on 2016-12-17T01:16:58+0000
Starting a real business
Starting a business is hard. Some of the difficulty is intrinsic—making products and services then convincing customers to pay for them will always be a challenge. Some of the difficulty is unnecessary—access to the infrastructure and tools for starting up an internet business is not evenly distribu...
The Government Finally Has A Realistic Estimate Of Killings By Police
About 1,200 people were killed by police officers in the U.S. in the 12 months that ended in May, according to a federal report released Thursday. That number is much larger than government counts …
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Posted on 2016-12-17T01:05:52+0000
Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit From Yahoo Deal
Verizon Communications Inc. is exploring a price cut or possible exit from its $4.83 billion pending acquisition of Yahoo! Inc., after the company reported a second major e-mail hack affecting as many as 1 billion users, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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A solid argument for when people ask why they should invest in security
Posted on 2016-12-17T00:56:27+0000
watt time is left
watt time is left So Apple no longer knows how to make a battery meter. The good news is OpenBSD is still here for all your desktop needs. How does its battery meter work? The simplest interface to get battery status info is to run apm. This gives us both percentage and an estimate of time remaining...
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Posted on 2016-12-17T00:40:23+0000
A Way to Ease Into Retirement That’s a Win-Win for Managers and Employees
You still get the same gold watch, just a little later.
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Posted on 2016-12-17T00:36:55+0000
The Great A.I. Awakening
How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.
GitHub Is Building a Coder’s Paradise. It’s Not Coming Cheap
The VC-backed unicorn startup lost $66 million in nine months of 2016, financial documents show.
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Posted on 2016-12-16T06:06:42+0000