Belgian Tax Hack
July 6 2023Here’s a fascinating tax hack from Belgium (listen to the details here, episode #484 of “No Such Thing as a Fish,” at 28:00). Basically, it’s about a music festival on...
Read moreI have mixed feelings about this class-action lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that it “scraped 300 billion words from the internet” without either registering as a data...
Read moreThe Password Game
July 4 2023Amusing parody of password rules. BoingBoing: For example, at a certain level, your password must include today’s Wordle answer. And then there’s rule #27: “At least 50% of your password must...
Read morePolice are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence:
While security cameras are commonplace in American cities, self-driving cars represent a new level of access for law enforcement...
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Friday Squid Blogging: See-Through Squid
July 1 2023Doryteuthis opalescens is known as the market squid, and was critical in the recent squid RNA research. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
Read moreThe US Is Spying on the UN Secretary General
June 30 2023The Washington Post is reporting that the US is spying on the UN Secretary General.
The reports on Guterres appear to contain the secretary general’s personal conversations with aides...
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We have learned this lesson again: As part of the FTC v. Microsoft hearing, Sony supplied a document from PlayStation chief Jim Ryan that includes redacted details on the margins...
Read moreStalkerware Vendor Hacked
June 28 2023The stalkerware company LetMeSpy has been hacked:
TechCrunch reviewed the leaked data, which included years of victims’ call logs and text messages dating back to 2013.
The database we reviewed...
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Typing Incriminating Evidence in the Memo Field
June 28 2023Don’t do it:
Recently, the manager of the Harvard Med School morgue was accused of stealing and selling human body parts. Cedric Lodge and his wife Denise were among...
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