AJ Dellinger, Author at Gizmodo

Majority of Americans Think Social Media Sites Censor Political Viewpoints

It’s a real challenge to find just about anything that Republicans and Democrats can agree upon in the current political climate, but Pew Research Center managed to do just that. As it turns out, in both parties believe their views are being suppressed by social media. A total of 72 percent of all US adults…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 29 '18

Capital Gazette Shooting Suspect Sued Paper for Reporting His Online Threats Against a Former Classmate

The suspect believed to have carried out the shooting at the offices of Annapolis, Maryland newspaper company Capital Gazette that left at least five dead and two injured sued the publication for defamation in 2012. The charges were thrown out by the judge. Authorities identified the shooting suspect as 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos. He was identified…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 28 '18

MoviePass is Selling Merch Now, Which Will Definitely Turn Things Around for It

MoviePass, a company that exists solely to piss off its customers despite offering a service so generously price that it will inevitably lead to its own downfall, entered the “we’re selling flamethrowers” phase of its existence Thursday with the official launch of its merch store. The collapse of the company is sure to follow. At…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 28 '18

Pornhub Adds Closed Captions For the Hearing Impaired and Stenographer Fetishists

Pornhub, the internet’s favorite smut factory, announced Wednesday that it is introducing a new feature to its massive collection of adult videos. The streaming service is adding closed captions to some of its videos to extend its offerings to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. According to the company, it will start its…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 28 '18

Personal Information of 340 Million People and Businesses Leaked By Florida Marketing Firm

A little-known, Florida-based marketing firm called Exactis may be responsible for a significant amount of personal data being exposed. According to a report from Wired, the firm left 340 million individual records on a publicly accessible server that any person could have gotten ahold of. The leak was discovered earlier this month by security researcher…

Privacy & Security AJ Dellinger Jun 27 '18

FTC’s New Head of Consumer Protection is a Major Corporate Shill

At this point when a new person joins the Trump administration as a regulator, the question isn’t if they are a corporate shill, it’s how big of one are they? In the case of Andrew Smith, the new head of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, he is truly a shill’s…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 27 '18

Editor’s Note

This post has been removed. In June, we wrote a story based on information from the Daily Mail (which was based on reporting by the Daily Mirror) about engineer Dr. Sergi Santos and his artificially intelligent, sensor-packed sex robot Samantha. Since last year, the bot has made headlines for its (relatively) lifelike appearance, and Santos’…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 24 '18

AT&T Employees Reportedly Encouraged to Use Unethical Sales Tactics to Drive Up DirecTV Now Subscriptions

Former AT&T employees are blowing the whistle on the company, accusing higher-ups at the telecommunications giant of pushing its sales team to aggressively sign up customers for its streaming service DirecTV Now, leading to consumers paying for unexpected charges. Hawaii News Now spoke with several AT&T employees, including some who were fired for engaging in…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 24 '18

Best-Selling Carbon Monoxide Detector Removed From Amazon and eBay Because It’s Defective

Amazon and eBay have removed several carbon monoxide detectors from their respective marketplaces after a recent investigation found the devices consistently failed to alert users when gas is present, putting peoples’ lives at risk. According to The Guardian, the UK-based consumer protection group Which? tested four alarms sold through the online marketplaces, including one Amazon…

Commerce AJ Dellinger Jun 24 '18

ZTE Can’t Fix a Broken Urinal Because It’s Not Sure If It’s Banned From Buying American Products

The story of Chinese telecommunication firm ZTE’s death and resurrection, both at the hands of the Trump administration, has taken another bizarre turn, this time resulting in employees having to hold in their pee. The company is opting not to fix urinal that requires parts from an American manufacturer for fear of breaching a ban…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 23 '18

A Virginia Restaurant Asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Leave and Now Its Yelp Page is Destroyed

There’s a new battleground in the proxy war between MAGA hat-wearing Trump supporters and pussy hat-wearing members of the #Resistance, and it’s the Yelp page of a restaurant in Virginia that asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave. The Hill pointed out The Red Hen, a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, has…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 23 '18

Facebook Created a Human Crisis Team After Algorithms Failed It

Facebook, fresh off a number of embarrassing incidents that algorithms and automated systems couldn’t stop, is turning to a team of former intelligence officers and researchers to identify the next potential crisis the platform might face. According to a report from BuzzFeed, the new group of experts is known internally as the “Investigative Operations Team.”…

Social Media AJ Dellinger Jun 23 '18

There’s a Brute Force Hack That Can Bypass the iPhone’s Passcode Limit [Update: Maybe Not!]

Apple is a perpetual battle to stay ahead of hackers and secure its devices but a new bug discovered by a security researcher and reported by ZDNet shows the passcode that protects iOS devices can be bypassed through a brute force attack, leaving iPhones and iPads vulnerable to being exploited. Matthew Hickey, a security researcher…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 23 '18

Netflix PR Head Drops the N-Word, Netflix Drops Him

People working in public relations typically act as the voice of a company, which is a real bummer for Netflix because the head of the company’s PR department decided to drop the n-word during a meeting. Netflix, as it turns out, didn’t want to say the slur, and is now looking for a new chief…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 22 '18

Apple Finally Offers Fixes for Faulty Butterfly Keyboards, Acknowledging the Design Sucks

At this point, it’s no secret that the butterfly keyboard used on newer models of Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have a litany of issues. Apple might be the last to recognize it, but the company is finally offering its customers free fixes for issues stemming from the flawed keyboard design. Owners of MacBooks…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 22 '18

You’ll Soon Be Able to Sponsor Your Favorite YouTube Creators for $5 Per Month

Fans of popular YouTube personalities will soon have a new way to show their support for their favorite creators. YouTube announced Thursday several new tools for YouTubers to generate revenue, including a Channel Memberships feature that will allow viewers to subscribe to channels for a monthly fee. Made public by YouTube at the VidCon conference…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 22 '18

Instagram Removed a ProPublica Post Outing White Supremacists Because Facebook Keeps Blocking the Wrong Things

Facebook, in attempts to crack down on fake news and other content, has somehow made news organizations its enemy. Just one day after Facebook was criticized for rejecting a promoted post from the nonprofit investigative journalism outlet Reveal, Instagram has now reportedly removed a video from ProPublica’s account. Lucas Waldron, a social visuals and graphics…

Social Media AJ Dellinger Jun 21 '18

AT&T’s WatchTV Is the First Streaming Service for the Post-Net Neutrality World

Fresh off an apparently successful effort to gut a net neutrality bill in California, AT&T is taking a victory lap with the announcement of WatchTV, a skinny streaming TV bundle that finally shows us what the internet will look like without net neutrality protections. Launching next week, WatchTV offers 31 channels—including a handful from Time…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 21 '18

Scorned US Lawmakers Press Google on Relationship with Huawei

Google faced a bunch of uproar from employees after it was revealed the company was offering its artificial intelligence tools to the Pentagon for a drone project. Now, after deciding not to renew the contract, the company is getting pressure from the other side as lawmakers are pressing Google over its relationship with Chinese telecommunications…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 21 '18

It Turns out All Kinds of Tech Companies Are Working With ICE

Days after Microsoft came under intense scrutiny for working with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a report from NBC News revealed that a number of major tech firms have been raking in millions of dollars from the government agency that has, under the advisement of the Trump administration, taken to stripping children from their…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 20 '18

AJ Dellinger

Majority of Americans Think Social Media Sites Censor Political Viewpoints

Capital Gazette Shooting Suspect Sued Paper for Reporting His Online Threats Against a Former Classmate

MoviePass is Selling Merch Now, Which Will Definitely Turn Things Around for It

Pornhub Adds Closed Captions For the Hearing Impaired and Stenographer Fetishists

Personal Information of 340 Million People and Businesses Leaked By Florida Marketing Firm

FTC’s New Head of Consumer Protection is a Major Corporate Shill

Editor’s Note

AT&T Employees Reportedly Encouraged to Use Unethical Sales Tactics to Drive Up DirecTV Now Subscriptions

Best-Selling Carbon Monoxide Detector Removed From Amazon and eBay Because It’s Defective

ZTE Can’t Fix a Broken Urinal Because It’s Not Sure If It’s Banned From Buying American Products

A Virginia Restaurant Asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Leave and Now Its Yelp Page is Destroyed

Facebook Created a Human Crisis Team After Algorithms Failed It

There’s a Brute Force Hack That Can Bypass the iPhone’s Passcode Limit [Update: Maybe Not!]

Netflix PR Head Drops the N-Word, Netflix Drops Him

Apple Finally Offers Fixes for Faulty Butterfly Keyboards, Acknowledging the Design Sucks

You’ll Soon Be Able to Sponsor Your Favorite YouTube Creators for $5 Per Month

Instagram Removed a ProPublica Post Outing White Supremacists Because Facebook Keeps Blocking the Wrong Things

AT&T’s WatchTV Is the First Streaming Service for the Post-Net Neutrality World

Scorned US Lawmakers Press Google on Relationship with Huawei

It Turns out All Kinds of Tech Companies Are Working With ICE

The Guy Who Started the ‘Scientology Run’ TikTok Trend Says It’s Time to Stop

Noah Hawley Hopes ‘Alien: Earth’ Runs for ‘a Very Long Time’

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