Pluralistic: Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked (10 Oct 2024)

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Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked: "Software-based car" is a warning, not a slogan.
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Pluralistic: Google's new phones can't stop phoning home (08 Oct 2024)

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Google's new phones can't stop phoning home: The call is coming from inside the house.
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Pluralistic: China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor (07 Oct 2024)

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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor: There's no such thing as a backdoor that only works when 'good guys' use it.
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Pluralistic: Doublethink sump linkdump (05 Oct 2024)

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Doublethink sump linkdump: Some short hits for an all-too-short weekend.
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Pluralistic: Prime's enshittified advertising (03 Oct 2024)

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Prime's enshittified advertising: Don't touch that dial. No, seriously, DON'T.
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Pluralistic: Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist (02 Oct 2024)

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Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist: Clinical needs sacrificed to profit maximization.
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Pluralistic: Everyday homeowners are human shields for Wall Street's Internet of Shit slumlords (01 Oct 2024)

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Everyday homeowners are human shields for Wall Street's Internet of Shit slumlords: Put Wall Street landlords up against a wall.
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Pluralistic: A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge (30 Sep 2024)

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A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge: A machine in the middle that's too cheap to meter.
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Pluralistic: Sandra Newman's "Julia" (28 Sep 2024)

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Sandra Newman's "Julia": An authorized retelling of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" from the love interest's point-of-view.
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Pluralistic: Return to work and dying on the job (27 Sep 2024)

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Return to office and dying on the job: Denise Prudhomme was dead at her Wells Fargo desk, unnoticed for four days.
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