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Microsoft demos end-to-end voting verification system ElectionGuard, code will be on GitHub
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Amazon’s bugging of homes has German boffins worried that Alexa may be an outlaw
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Something for the Weekend, Sir?
A lovely story, actually.
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Incognito mode won’t stop smut sites sharing your pervy preferences with Facebook, Google and, er, Oracle
[ETA: posted the wrong link at first, sorry.]
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It’s true.
No, don’t ask me how I know, I just know, OK? Let’s just leave it at that!
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France seeks science-fiction writers to help futureproof its military against science-fact
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The police who keep watch over the town of 16,000 raffled off free cameras in a partnership with the camera manufacturer. So far, the devices have encountered more bears than criminals, but Chief Ed Stephens is still a fan. “Anything that helps keep the town safe, I’m going to do it,” he said.
Critics also say Ring, a subsidiary of Amazon, appears to be marketing its cameras by stirring up fear of crime at a time when it’s decreasing. Amazon’s promotional videos show people lurking around homes, and the company recently posted a job opening for a managing news editor to “deliver breaking crime news alerts to our neighbors.”
Police and Amazon don’t have access to the camera’s data without the owner’s permission. Seems legit, and could never go wrong…
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As someone who gets very excited when spotting turkeys, chickens, etc. roadside, spotting an emu could well do me in. 
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Death by emusement?
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The immediate release, shrouded as it was in shadow, was cosmic, like waking up from a nightmare, realizing it’s Christmas, I’m 5 years old, and can fly.
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I know what I’m doing this afternoon.
(Trigger warning: they aren’t kidding when they say “unsettling”. Don’t click if you are easily disturbed.)
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Pass.
Besides a theater where I am is showing GOG at noon.
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I love this guy’s stuff.
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Some of that was really horrible - you might want a warning on that.
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