Sparrowvsrevolution writes: In a lengthy article, Wired tells a newly detailed narrative of the cyberattack on the 2018 Winter Olympic games, which hit the Olympics network during the opening ceremony. The piece details how the malware used in that attack was designed to incorporate multiple sophisticated false flags, and how forensic analysts overcame those red herrings to eventually trace the attack…
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Teen Makes His Own AirPods For $4
samleecole writes: Apple’s AirPods are a tragedy. Ecologically, socially, economically — they’re a capitalist disaster. The opposite of AirPods, then, is this extremely punk pair of DIY wireless earbuds that someone on Reddit hacked together using an old pair of wired Apple headphones and some hot glue. “I started this project roughly two months ago when my friend got a new…
Algorithmic Analysis Shows That Pop Music Is Sadder and Angrier Than Ever
dryriver writes: BBC Culture reports — with some neat graphs in the article — on two different scientific studies that both found that chart-topping pop music has been getting steadily sadder and angrier since the 1950s, and that both song lyrics and the musical tone in hit songs are sadder, more fearful, and angrier than ever before in history. Lior Shamir…
Billie Ellish, the neo-goth, chart-topping 17-year-old pop star, explained
Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/18/18412282/who-is-billie-eilish-explained-coachella-2019…
One of America’s Most Prominent Net Neutrality Activists Just Released a Folk Punk Album
For the last few years, Evan Greer has been one of the most constant presences in the ongoing fight for net neutrality and internet freedom more broadly. Through her nonprofit Fight for the Future, Greer has helped organize widespread internet blackouts that protested the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills, and numerous letter writing and phone… Continue reading One of America’s Most Prominent Net Neutrality Activists Just Released a Folk Punk Album