Pluralistic: The US Copyright Office frees the McFlurry (28 Oct 2024)

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The US Copyright Office frees the McFlurry: The only kind of DMCA exemption that makes a difference.
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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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The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you: When monopoly meets infosec, hilarity ensues.
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Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companies: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product.
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Saturday linkdump, part the sixth: The new digital disorder.
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Tesla's Dieselgate: How DRM let Tesla defraud every one of its customers.
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Autoenshittification: How the computer killed capitalism.
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VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription: All the harms of surveillance, none of the benefits.
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$100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck: The self-driving car fraud was great business for Uber and Tesla.
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Dependency Confusion: A completely wild supply-chain hack.
Adam Curtis on criti-hype: Big Tech as an epiphenomenon of sociopathic mediocrity, not supergenius.
Catalytic converter theft: Rhodium at $21,900/oz.
Apple puts North Dakota on blast: Stop thinking different!
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