google fires four workers, including staffer tied to protest 1984, ethic, google, hopelessness, know, surveillance https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-25/google-fires-four-employees-citing-data-security-violations
these hugely popular local news sites in the us and canada are fake 1984, fakenews, hopelessness, know, marketing, psychology, technology https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/fake-local-news-sites-albany-edmonton
web creator tim berners-lee launches plan to ‘fix’ the internet hope, hopelessness, know, technology https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/25/tim-berners-lee-launches-contract-for-the-web-to-fix-the-internet.html?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1574701094
google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to spotify, microsoft & others gafam, google, technology https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/google-brings-its-new-domains-to-the-rest-of-the-web-including-to-spotify-microsoft-others/?guccounter=1
somehow facebook’s facial recognition was even creepier than we thought 1984, ai, dystopia, ethic, facebook, hopelessness, know, privacy, technology https://mashable.com/article/facebook-facial-recognition-app-privacy/?europe=true
how the iranian government shut off the internet 1984, censorship, know, politic https://www.wired.com/story/iran-internet-shutoff/
146 new vulnerabilities all come preinstalled on android phones android, fail, google, know, privacy, surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/146-bugs-preinstalled-android-phones/
uber adding to air pollution in europe earth, fail, uber https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2019/11/20/uber-adding-to-air-pollution-in-europereport/#29e579f25041
technologist stephen wolfram puts a pin in social media information bubbles facebook, fail, gafam, google, hope, hopelessness, know, politic, privacy, technology https://adage.com/article/digital/technologist-stephen-wolfram-puts-pin-social-media-information-bubbles/2215766?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=adage&utm_content=a16f7e8d-ddb0-457a-89cf-cfa22ca52d91
chrome zero-day bug with exploit in the wild gets a patch fail, google https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-zero-day-bug-with-exploit-in-the-wild-gets-a-patch/