Link dump - February 2020

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SECURITY / LAW

• [ ] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/china-dna-uighurs-xinjiang.html
• [ ] https://www.fastcompany.com/90440198/san-diegos-massive-7-year-experiment-with-facial-recognition-technology-appears-to-be-a-flop
• [ ] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/22/big-microsoft-data-breach-250-million-records-exposed/
• [ ] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/16/tech-companies-launch-legal-action-force-government-bring-18s/
• [x] https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2020/01/28/amazon-engineer-ring-should-be-shut-down-immediately-and-not-brought-back/
• [ ] https://parsers.me/us-court-fully-legalized-website-scraping-and-technically-prohibited-it/

LOLWHA

• [ ] https://torrentfreak.com/replica-store-sells-cheap-knock-off-of-e890-pirate-bay-hoodie-200111/
• [ ] Ethical ad blocking https://scroll.com/
• [ ] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/cbs-all-access-serves-ads-but-not-content-to-linux-users/
• [ ] No more keyboards, Long live Blackberry? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51358049
• [ ] If only web pages existed this would not be a problem https://www.businessinsider.com/what-we-know-about-app-iowa-caucuses-into-chaos-2020-2

ECO

• [ ] Microsoft makes 'carbon negative' pledge https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51133811
• [ ] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/17/selfless-billionaires-earth-burning-elon-musk-mars
• [ ] https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/aerial-photographs-of-led-lit-greenhouses-in-the-netherlands/

MUSIC

• [ ] https://hackaday.com/2020/01/19/play-that-funky-3d-printer/
• [x] The Picard Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXB84fpWzg8
• [x] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/31/elon_dont_doubt_ur_vibe/
• [x] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/31/elon-musk-edm-artist-first-track-dont-doubt-ur-vibe

AI

• [ ] https://www.technollama.co.uk/chinese-court-rules-that-ai-article-has-copyright
• [x] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/27/google_world_economic_forum/
• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/30/facebook_illinois_settlement/

HAX

• [ ] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/amazon-boss-jeff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince
• [ ] https://twitter.com/johnny_makes/status/1218668895655079936 "Why Google's new search results design is a dark pattern"
• [ ] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation
• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/29/canadian_insurer_paid_ransomware_hunt/
• [x] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/03/google_maps_hack_cartful_phones/

WORLD OF STUFF

• [x] New x86s https://hackaday.com/2020/02/04/china-x86-chips-hitting-the-market/

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