Companies like Deloitte and IBM have made millions building state unemployment websites that didn't work, yet keep getting contracts to fix them
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Profile of Armslist, the “Craigslist of guns” that offers nearly any kind of gun imaginable and where all transactions are done peer to peer
The Verge : Tweets: @momsdemand , @sean_kev , @ma_franks , @geigernews , @giffordscourage , @colinlecher , and @reckless Tweets: @momsdemand : Criminals and others are avoiding background checks by b...
Profile of Armslist, the “Craigslist of guns” that offers nearly any kind of gun imaginable and where all transactions are done peer to peer
Inside Armslist, the online ‘gun show that never ends’ — Thomas Caldwell was a veteran in his 60s with a soft physique, oval glasses … Tweets: @momsdemand , @sean_kev , @ma_franks , @reckless , @gei...
How the Basel Action Network, which embeds trackers in discarded devices to trace where they end up in the world, uncovered bad practices of an e-waste recycler
How an e-waste sting uncovered a shocking betrayal — Jim Puckett got the messages from his “little lie detectors.” Tweets: @russellbrandom and @colinlecher Tweets: Russell Brandom / @russellbrandom ...
Recap of Pichai's testimony before Congress, where he said Google had 100+ people working on a Chinese search engine but has no plans to launch it “right now”
does it? Washington Post : Google CEO Pichai says in Post interview the company is still figuring out China and hate speech … Ina Fried / Axios : Google's Pichai on antitrust: There's more internation...
How a gigapixel camera developed at Duke for US Navy is being used by China to surveil its citizens, after one of Duke's researchers moved there seeking funding
Wenxin Fan / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @tomlevenson , @donal888 , @xinwenfan , @xinwenfan , and @colinlecher Tweets: Thomas Levenson / @tomlevenson : This is not a unique situation. I talked w. s...
A look at what happens when algorithms used to automate health assessments in Arkansas start cutting essential state-sponsored home care for disabled patients
Colin Lecher / The Verge : Tweets: @mslopatto , @flyosity , and @hccandrea Tweets: @mslopatto : This is what happens when you put an algorithm in charge of healthcare: people's benefits are cut and n...
Facebook releases timeline of murder suspect's activity: first video uploaded 11:09AM PDT, first report received around 11:27AM, account disabled at 1:22PM
“I snapped, dog,” the man says into the camera. Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Facebook publishes timeline of murder suspect's activity James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : A murder video posted to Facebook was ...
FBI issued warning that two state voter registration databases were breached by suspected foreign hackers; sources: Arizona, Illinois databases were the targets
FBI Warns Colin Lecher / The Verge : Harry Reid asks FBI to investigate potential Russian election tampering PYMNTS.com : Hackers Aimed At State Election Boards, According To FBI Pierluigi Paganini / ...
Russia reportedly pays online trolls to write nice things about the country's YotaPhone
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