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United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB
Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected.From this day forward, we have a union!To the thousands who signed our petition letter, the…
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How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers
Employers illegally siphon billions of dollars out of low-wage workers' paychecks each year, but the vast majority of these crimes go unreported.
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EFF to court: The Supreme Court must rein in secondary copyright liability
If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects...
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Privacy Harm Is Harm
Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data privacy laws, we’ve suffered a real harm—period. We shouldn’t need to prove we’ve suffered...
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Law Enforcement Uses Border Search Exception as Fourth Amendment Loophole
In recent months, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have sought access to private data on the cell phones of two journalists. Such incidents are offensive because they threaten the independence of the press and pose specific risks to confidential sources. This government overreach also...
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IBM's “Think” Motto in Chinese
First we have to determine what IBM means by its famous slogan. Here are some of the many meanings of "think": "ponder; reflect (on); believe; consider; cogitate; feel; deem; hold; suppose; imagine; remember; recall; conceive; deliberate; recollect; evoke", etc. Thomas J. Watson , who led IBM from 1914 to 1956, first…
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Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure
To ensure our mission always comes first, Proton is transitioning to a non-profit structure and formalizing our promise of people before profits.
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The Montreux Jazz Festival archive is now online
EPFL’s Metamedia Center will soon finish digitizing the Montreux Jazz Festival archive, and an initial selection of concerts has been made available at montreuxjazz.com.
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The Mitto AG surveillanve case – or why we must never backdoor encryption
A single employee leaked sensitive data to secret services, potentially also to Russia.
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Cybersecurity Bill Broad Enough to Use Against WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay
Congress is doing it again: they’re proposing overbroad regulations that could have dire consequences for our Internet ecology. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, allows companies or the government[fn]...
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Thoughts and Concerns about Operation Onymous
What happened Recently it was announced that a coalition of government agencies took control of...
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The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky
Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.
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Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time (2025)
According to a new analysis by Stanford Medicine scientists, changing clocks twice a year disrupts circadian rhythms, leading to higher rates of stroke and obesity.
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The Mating Crisis Among Educated Women
Every year, more women than men become college-educated. The disparity is already prevalent across North America and Europe, and the trend is beginning to spread across the world more widely. At the University of Texas at Austin where I teach, the sex ratio is 54 percent women to 46 percent men. This imbalance may not…
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Gerontopoly: Homeownership, wealth, and age
Is the “dream” of homeownership really just a massive, intergenerational wealth transfer? Recently, that’s just how it has worked out.
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Google tips off cops after spotting child abuse images in email
The Sophos Blog
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Diversity-Related Training Meta-analysis
It seems that diversity training programs generally fail at their stated goals, and often produce unfortunate and unintended consequences.
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Stop Hacklore – An Open Letter
An open letter from current and former CISOs, security leaders, and practitioners asking the public, employers, journalists, and policymakers to retire outdated security advice.
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Thai activist jailed under lese majeste laws for sharing an article on Facebook
Thai activist Jatuphat “Pai” Boonpattaraksa was sentenced this week to two and a half years in prison—for the crime of sharing a BBC article on Facebook. The Thai-language article profiled Thailand’s new king and, while thousands of users shared it, only Jutaphat was found to violate Thailand’s...
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Microsoft will donate $1B in cloud services to nonprofits and universities
As Satya Nadella announced today, we’re committed to putting the Microsoft Cloud to work for the public good. That’s why Microsoft Philanthropies, with support from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Business Development, will donate $1 billion in Microsoft cloud services to nonprofits and university researchers over…
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Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma
U.S. pharma companies should pay rather more of their corporate income tax in the U.S.—and start producing more of their best drugs in the U.S. as well.