Corruption

Six Months After The Earthquake, Nepal Is Open For Adventure

Nepal is home to the best climbing, trekking and mountaineering on earth. But, earlier this year, it also had a massive earthquake, an avalanche on Everest and is right now subject to a “blockade” by its neighbor India. Can you still visit? Surprisingly, now may be the best time ever. An avalanche on Everest killed…

Tech News Chris Brinlee Jr Oct 28

Tim Wu’s Vision for the Future Comes Into Focus

Tim Wu is a busy man. When he’s not teaching law at Columbia or writing forThe New Yorker, he’s testifying before Congress about the FCC proposed net neutrality. And as of last month, Wu is running for lieutenant governor of New York State. Busy might not be the right term, actually. Tim Wu is brimming…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 9

Staff of China’s Biggest Search Engine Delete User Content For Cash

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Baidu, China’s biggest search company, is sacking staff because they’ve been deleting users’ posts for cash. The “professional post-deleting”, as it’s come to be called, is a way of removing negative press and reviews from websites. The deletion is a major problem in China, but cross referencing a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 6

A little power corrupts way more than absolute control

The British historian Lord Acton once observed, “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It’s a powerful sentiment, a warning against placing trust in dictators…but it might also be wrong. It’s those with just a little power you have to watch out for. That’s the finding of researchers at USC, Stanford, and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 21

Lulzsec and Anonymous Declare Open War Against All Governments and Fat Cats

Lulzsec and Anonymous have just declared full open war against all governments, banks and big corporations in the world. They are calling all hackers in the world to unite. Their objective is to fully expose all corruption and dark secrets: https://kotaku.com/the-lulzsec-manifesto-more-sec-than-lulz-5813033 Salutations Lulz Lizards, As we’re aware, the government and whitehat security terrorists across the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 20

Cop turned corporate spy took his inspiration from Stargate and Babylon 5

A British undercover police officer who infiltrated environmental groups was moonlighting as a corporate spy. And his semi-legal espionage companies were full of science fiction references. The story of Mark Kennedy, which has grown into an enormous scandal over the past few weeks, is a tangle that reveals strange links between covert police work and…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 12

Watch This Voting Machine Change Someone’s Vote

When programmer Don Relyea tried to choose one candidate on his voting machine, the computer chose a different candidate—plus four other candidates from the same, incorrect party—right in front of him. He captured the whole thing on video. Voting! Don’t you just hate it?? Luckily, in the future, the machines will go ahead and do…

Tech News Max Read Oct 22

Kickback-Accused Apple Exec Stuffed $150,000 in Shoeboxes at Home

Prosecutors in the case against Apple’s Paul Devine—accused of taking $1 million in payola from Asian parts suppliers—say they found $150,000 in shoeboxes at his home. Investigators are now looking for the rest, at home and abroad. https://gizmodo.com/apple-employee-accused-of-accepting-1-million-in-kickb-5612881 The prosecution says they’ve already identified two suspicious safety deposit boxes in the US, along with “a…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 24

Controversial Book Claims Samsung Is Basically the Most Corrupt Company In Asia

Bribes, prosecutors on the take, tax evasion and slush funds. It sounds like organized crime, but if we’re to believe Kim Yong-chul, author of Think Samsung, all these terrible things happen at popular electronics company Samsung. All the time. Trouble for Kim (former top legal counsel, Samsung) is Samsung is not only the largest electronics…

Gadgets Jack Loftus Apr 25

Best Buy Manager Fired For Also Allegedly Taking Kickbacks

Corporate corruption isn’t just limited to Fry’s Electronics (surprise!); a Best Buy vendor-relations manager was also recently fired for being accused of doing just about the same thing. https://gizmodo.com/frys-electronic-store-vp-allegedly-embezzled-65-millio-5117092 Says the Star Tribune: Robert Paul Bossany, 37, of Prior Lake, was charged with one count each of conspiracy and money laundering after federal authorities said…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 24

Microsoft Warns Home Server Users Not to Write to Server or Use Media Managers

Acknowledging the “data corruption bug” that’s been ravaging Windows Home Servers since Christmas, Microsoft today warned users NOT to: • “Use applications to directly edit or change files stored on Windows Home Server” • “Use media management programs, such as Windows Media Player, to import files to the Windows Home Server” • “Redirect applications to…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Mar 10

Windows Home Server Corrupts Data When Saving From Certain Apps

We’ve had nothing but good luck in moving files to and from our Windows Home Server machine in Windows Explorer, but there’s a data corruption bug present that will kill your data if you’re writing stuff over the network directly from certain apps. The apps? Outlook, OneNote, Vista Photo Gallery, Live Photo Gallery, Money and…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 27

PC World Editorial Firewall Breach, Part 2

Wired has an interesting follow-up piece about Harry McCracken’s resignation from PC World. Crawford’s blog says that “We have and will continue to run editorial and content that both praises and criticizes as appropriate without regard to the vendor relationship.” But then a statement from IDG’s Howard Sholkin: “The reason is that Colin and Harry…

Tech News Brian Lam May 3

Electric Car Removed from Smithsonian, Replaced by SUV

Is it a case of bad timing, or is it a little fishy that just a week before the documentary critical of GM, Who Killed the Electric Car? is to be released that one of the few examples of the EV1 electric car in existence has been removed from the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 20

Six Months After The Earthquake, Nepal Is Open For Adventure

Tim Wu’s Vision for the Future Comes Into Focus

Staff of China’s Biggest Search Engine Delete User Content For Cash

A little power corrupts way more than absolute control

Lulzsec and Anonymous Declare Open War Against All Governments and Fat Cats

Cop turned corporate spy took his inspiration from Stargate and Babylon 5

Watch This Voting Machine Change Someone’s Vote

Kickback-Accused Apple Exec Stuffed $150,000 in Shoeboxes at Home

Controversial Book Claims Samsung Is Basically the Most Corrupt Company In Asia

Best Buy Manager Fired For Also Allegedly Taking Kickbacks

Microsoft Warns Home Server Users Not to Write to Server or Use Media Managers

Windows Home Server Corrupts Data When Saving From Certain Apps

PC World Editorial Firewall Breach, Part 2

Electric Car Removed from Smithsonian, Replaced by SUV

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