Whole Foods’ staff designed those meat logos on their own — Amazon didn’t tell them to
Corporate overlords were not involved.

August 29, 2017 at 10:15PM
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711 million email addresses ensnared in “largest” malware spambot
The spambot has collected millions of email credentials and server login information in order to send spam through “legitimate” servers, defeating many spam filters.

August 29, 2017 at 04:55PM
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Uber Under Investigation for Possible Foreign-Bribery Law Violations
The Department of Justice has taken preliminary steps to investigate whether managers at Uber violated US laws against foreign bribery.

August 29, 2017 at 04:12PM
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I’m obsessed with this startup dog prison
A personal journey into a tech-y dog house service.

August 29, 2017 at 03:54PM
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Peter Thiel Is Bankrolling An Unapproved Offshore Herpes Vaccine Trial
The project is part of a larger libertarian movement to speed up medical innovation by pulling back consumer and test subject protections.

August 29, 2017 at 12:03PM
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Inside an Epic Hotel Room Hacking Spree
A vulnerability in common hotel locks went unnoticed for years, and one burglar used it to stage over a hundred heists.

August 29, 2017 at 12:03PM
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The far right is losing its ability to speak freely online. Should the left defend it?
Free speech was the left’s rally cry. But the fate of the Daily Stormer, a hate site ‘kicked off the internet’, signals the increasing irrelevance of the first amendment

August 29, 2017 at 06:43AM
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Trump Damaged Democracy, Silicon Valley Will Finish It Off
Donald Trump’s rise is, in a sense, just one symptom of the damage the tech oligarchs are doing to America.

August 28, 2017 at 09:27PM
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Why Hollywood Could Make Billions From Self-Driving Cars
In-vehicle entertainment for passengers may translate to big business for studios: “Can the windshield be the movie screen of tomorrow?”

August 28, 2017 at 04:54PM
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The Fake-News Fallacy
Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the internet.

August 28, 2017 at 09:50AM
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