During a night out drinking, a worker lost a USB stick with the personal information of an entire city’s half-million residents.
↩︎ BBC News
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“Compared to a lot of other things I have done, this was easy.” How a hacker accessed personal details of Jacuzzi SmartTub owners.
↩︎ Motherboard
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If you played with a guy who was a better volleyer than you, you knew you needed to work on your volley. I remember helping Ashe with his backhand. We would play at Columbia or in the park. Once in a while we got a few be…
The fact that a social crisis of this scale is not constantly at the forefront of the national conversation is indicative of a pervasive elitism in many of the institutions on which the public sphere is grounded. This eli…
In a new study on trust in journalism, only 26% of Americans trust the news, the lowest in all sampled countries.
↩︎ Reuters Institute
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By taking advantage of certain areas’ lax labor laws, Amazon successfully mounted an unprecedented expansion into central Europe.
↩︎ BuzzFeed News
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Nguy Thi Khanh won a Goldman Prize for stopping new coal plans. Vietnam continued a pattern by arresting her for tax evasion.
↩︎ The New York Times
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A playlist by author Carlene Bauer of “songs about girls—about women. Mothers, daughters, sculptors, Jolenes.”
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So far this year, male pro tennis players have earned 75% more prize money than women—it’s the widest gap since 2001.
↩︎ Financial Times
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Wimbledon’s requirement that players only wear white is ridiculous, and asks too much of women on their periods.
↩︎ The Telegraph
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