Collaborate Disseminate
As if you weren’t already excited enough about the speakers and events that will be part of this year’s Hackaday Supercon, today we can finally reveal that journalist, activist, author, …read more Continue reading 2023 Hackaday Supercon: Cory Doctorow Signs on As Keynote Speaker
Martin Hench really likes playing on the Red team — on the attack. He’s a financial geek, understands cryptocurrency, understands how money is moved around to keep it hidden, and …read more Continue reading Books You Should Read: Red Team Blues
Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. Norton’s parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates the program and enables customers to profit from the scheme — in which the company keeps 15 percent of any currencies mined — is “opt-in,” meaning users have to agree to enable it. But many Norton users complain the mining program is difficult to remove, and reactions from longtime customers have ranged from unease and disbelief to, “Dude, where’s my crypto?” Continue reading Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer
Three letters obtained by Motherboard show that Dyson, LG, and Wahl are fighting right-to-repair legislation. Continue reading Appliance Companies Are Lobbying to Protect Their DRM-Fueled Repair Monopolies
Poke around enough on AliExpress, Alibaba, and especially Taobao—the Chinese facing site that’s increasingly being used by Westerners to find hard to source parts—and you’ll come across some interesting things. The Long-CZ J8 is one of those, it’s 2.67 inch long and weighs just 0.63 ounces, and it’s built in the form factor of a Bluetooth headset.
A couple of months ago Cory Doctorow highlighted this tiny phone, he’d picked up on it because of the marketing. The lozenge-shaped phone was being explicitly marketed that it could “beat the boss”. The boss in question here being the B.O.S.S chair—a scanning …read more
I was skeptical about a two hour block allotted for Cory Doctrow’s keynote address at HOPE XI. I’ve been to Operas that are shorter than that and it’s hard to imagine he could keep a huge audience engaged for that long. I was incredibly wrong — this was a barnburner of a talk. Here is where some would make a joke about breaking out the rainbows and puppies. But this isn’t a joke. I think Cory’s talk helped me understand why I’ve been feeling down about our not-so-bright digital future and unearthed a foundation upon which hope can grow.
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Continue reading Cory Doctorow Rails Against Technological Nihilism; Wants You to Have Hope
