Bloomberg Businessweek has an in-depth report out today, alleging that electronics supplier Flextronics used recruiters who charged exorbitant fees to place factory workers in plants throughout Malaysia, confiscating their passports and trapping them in employee housing without food when the plants were idled. Read more…
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Report: Apple Supplier Flextronics Used Indentured Employees
Check it out, guys. It’s a creepy revelation about the government spying on your phone calls that didn’t come from Edward Snowden’s NSA leak. Nope, just your standard sketchy CIA arrangements with a telecommunications company—AT&T to be exact. Read more…
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Report: The CIA Pays AT&T Over $10 Million a Year to Spy on Phone Calls
If you’re still not sure if your details were thieved in that massive Adobe hack , you can use this tool to see if your email featured in the smash’n’grab. Read more…
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If you’re still not sure if your details were thieved in that massive Adobe hack, you can use this t
If there’s one thing cops don’t like, it’s being disrespected. So when some renegade launches a clone of Silk Road, the underground drug marketplace that Feds recently shut down, they’re just begging to get arrested. They even made the homepage a spoof of an FBI-seized domain. That’s disrespectful! Read more…
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I Pity The Fool Who Resurrected Silk Road
Maybe we can’t build the world’s deepest undersea tunnel in seven years like some cities , but New York still has some serious mega-construction chops. Behold: The latest photos from 120 to 160 feet below Grand Central Station, where workers are building the largest public transportation project in the US. Read more…
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The Colossal Railway That’s Quietly Taking Shape 160 Feet Below NYC
ccguy writes “It seems that while Google could really care less about your site and has no real interest in hacking you, their automated bots can be used to do the heavy lifting for an attacker. In this scenario, the bot was crawling Site A. Site A had a number of links embedded that had the SQLi requests to the target site, Site B. Google Bot then went about its business crawling pages and following links like a good boy, and in the process followed the links on Site A to Site B, and began to inadvertently attack Site B.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Normally, intentionally elongated or flattened skulls are associated with ancient Mesoamerican cultures . But this exquisite specimen, which dates back some 1, 500 years, was recently found at a dig in Alsace, France. Read more…
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French Archaeologists Discover Beautifully Preserved Deformed Skull
The RIAA is a real stickler about copyright. It basically wants to turn Google into its own private Internet copyright police , to make sure the Internet is free of offending links. But as we’ve learned before, the RIAA doesn’t always feel like paying attention to copyright laws itself, and over the weekend, we learned that this applies even when adhering to Read more…
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RIAA Uses Pirated Code on Its Website Because of Course It Does
Of all the unique varieties that Ben & Jerry’s has concocted over the years, nothing can come close to the wonderful absurdity that is this glowing ice cream created by Charlie Francis . Using a synthesized version of the luminescent proteins that cause jellyfish to glow when they’re agitated, this gleaming frozen treat actually gets brighter as you lick it. Read more…
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Why This Glow in the Dark Ice Cream Costs $225 a Scoop
Calling the launch of Healthcare.gov a complete and utter disaster may sound a bit dramatic—but unfortunately, it’s also pretty accurate. With only six people able to actually enroll out of the 4.7 million unique visitors the site saw on launch day, something clearly needs to change. And since the government has its hands full with perpetually tripping over itself , three coders from San Francisco did what the feds couldn’t by building HealthSherpa.com— a website that actually works . Read more…
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These Guys Just Built the Website Healthcare.gov Should Have Been