Commodore's Callback 8020 Is a $499 Flip Phone That Blocks Social Media and Browsers
Commodore has unveiled the Callback 8020, a $499 Sailfish OS flip phone that runs most Android apps but deliberately blocks social media, browsers, email, and workplace apps to…
Flock Is The New Tool Of Choice For Cops Who Love Stalking Their Exes
Cops are human beings. Despite constantly pretending they’re on a higher plane (see also: Thin Blue Line, etc.), they’re just as fallible as anyone else. Especially now. This…
“If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of...
“If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of women are the natural price of running a working class candidate, isn’t the implication that working class men by nature…
Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct”
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.
Midjourney's Spa, or when sci-fi tries to become mundane
Midjourney has just announced their jump from being just the "makes funny images" AI company to being the "revolutionises diagnostics and human medicine forever" AI company, as a…
Major Update: Trump Discussed Suspending Constitutional Rights, Epstein Consumes White House, UFC Fight Faces Major Blowback
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Fascists and Football: How Italy's Mussolini and Argentina's Junta Turned the World Cup Authoritarian
The Dark Side of the World Cup, Episode 2: Mehdi goes back to 1934 and 1978 to show how those World Cups were used by Italy and Argentina to cover up torture, genocide and the…
DOJ Approves Another Merger Amid Fears Trump Allies Will Tighten Grip on Media
Free press advocate Craig Aaron explains the stakes of billionaire-owned Paramount potentially acquiring Warner Bros.
On The Weeknight, Angelo Carusone discusses MAGA media's "forced" reaction to Trump's UFC spectacle
Cybersecurity Vets Protest 'Dangerous' US Government Ban On Anthropic's Most Powerful Models
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open…
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like:...
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like: “4. Please, please stop asking me to verify my humanity by clicking on tiny motorcycles.” and “35. To Mark Zuckerberg,…
On “Model Organisms”
This post was written while working for Arcadia Impact's Alignment Team (and grew out of an internal talk I gave) but is my own opinion and not theirs. I am grateful for feedback…
NASA asks Northrop Grumman to stop working on lunar HALO module
"We are reassigning most affected employees across existing opportunities and programs."