Facebook responds to the New York Times’ blockbuster exposé
By Steve Dent From engadget But fails to address some of the report’s key findings. The New York Times recently published a bruising Facebook report saying, among other things, that the social network knew about Russian interference well before it…
Real news of fake reviews
By Jon Evans Goodhart’s Law, as phrased by Mary Strathern: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Honored more in the breach than the observance, alas. Our algorithmic world has turned so many measures…
NYT refused to publish Climate-Gate hacked emails
By Cathy Burke From Newsmax The New York Times once came underscrutiny for allegedly engaging in “institutional hypocrisy” about which private data it decides to make public – by refusing to post hacked emails that cast doubt on scientists’ pro-global…
ExxonMobil is being investigated
By Charles Kennedy, OilPrice.comFrom Business Insider The investigation by a handful of attorney generals into ExxonMobil has much more to do with the oil major misleading investors than it does about covering up climate science. The legal headache stems from…
Amazon’s depiction as ‘a bruising workplace’ stokes debates about IT culture
By Patrick Gray From TechRepublic The bleak picture of Amazon’s work environment detailed in a NYT article is leading to important discussions about the employer/employee relationship and work/life balance. The New York Times article Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in…
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Man pleads guilty of theft at Cayman Islands gas station (stealing a drink) Logan Bodden (41), pleaded guilty to stealing a drink from Delworth’s Esso Gas Station Friday (14) located on Eastern Avenue in George Town, Grand Cayman on 8th…
NYT: NSA embeds radio transmitters to access offline computers from miles away
By Richard Lawler From engadget [Another] fun NSA revelation comes courtesy of the New York Times, reporting on an agency program to access and alter data on computers that aren’t connected to the internet. Cherry picked from the NSA’s tool…
