Enlarge / An Amazon worker in a fulfillment center in the Orlando area, April 2019. reader comments 27 with 22 posters participating Share this story After eliminating temporary “hazard” pay raises, Amazon is saying “thank you” to its hourly workers with a one-time bonus of $500, while at least one Amazon warehouse has been found ..
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Enlarge / CCTV security guard in the mall building. reader comments 50 with 35 posters participating Share this story Detroit’s police chief admitted on Monday that facial recognition technology used by the department misidentifies suspects about 96 percent of the time. It’s an eye-opening admission given that the Detroit Police Department is facing criticism for ..
Getty Images reader comments 20 with 14 posters participating Share this story For the past year, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sat in a London jail awaiting extradition to the US. This week, the US Justice Department piled on yet more hacking conspiracy allegations against him, all related to his decade-plus at the helm of ..
Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum van in West Lake Hills, Texas in April 2019. reader comments 61 with 41 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission is helping Charter avoid broadband competition in New York State with a decision that will block government funding for other ISPs in locations where Charter is required ..
reader comments 32 with 21 posters participating Share this story A large, multinational technology company got a nasty surprise recently as it was expanding its operations to China. The software a local bank required the company to install so it could pay local taxes contained an advanced backdoor. The cautionary tale, detailed in a report ..
Enlarge / Members of the Wilmington, North Carolina, police force taking part in the city’s annual Azalea Festival parade in April 2019. reader comments 222 with 123 posters participating Share this story Three North Carolina police officers were fired from their jobs this week after investigators found incredibly racist, troubling conversations, and threats of violence ..
Enlarge / This dog was part of widespread protests against the FBI’s attempts to penetrate iPhone encryption. reader comments 132 with 96 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Tuesday, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced yet another bill attempting to poke holes in data encryption, called ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty reader comments 58 with 42 posters participating, including story author Share this story Four days after leak publisher DDoSecrets circulated private documents from more than 200 law enforcement agencies across the United States, Twitter has permanently suspended its account and falsely claimed that the site may infect users with malware. “Your ..
Enlarge / Illustration of a green card sitting on an open passport. Green card holders are not currently affected by the new order, but the administration says immigration-restricting order will leave 525,000 jobs vacant this year for US citizens to fill. reader comments 186 with 103 posters participating Share this story Tech firms are pushing ..
Enlarge / A pigeon rests on a T-Mobile logo outside a mobile phone store, operated by Deutsche Telekom AG, in Munich, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 41 with 33 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Federal Communications Commission is kicking off its investigation of last ..
