An odd discovery on Spotify — Design the next iPhone — and Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies

Issue #868 — August 24, 2022

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An odd discovery on Spotify robinsloan.com \| points: 972 \| comments: 397

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Design the next iPhone neal.fun \| points: 876 \| comments: 244

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Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies cnn.com \| points: 837 \| comments: 483

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Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin theguardian.com \| points: 488 \| comments: 313

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Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year pewtrusts.org \| points: 397 \| comments: 475

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Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled status.stripe.com \| points: 391 \| comments: 198

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Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine iccl.ie \| points: 364 \| comments: 227

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Remote startups will win the war for top talent future.com \| points: 360 \| comments: 454

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Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories twitter.com \| points: 346 \| comments: 289

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“10% error rate is okay“ – Leaked EU Commission document regarding Chat Control reddit.com \| points: 299 \| comments: 254

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Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js crawlee.dev \| points: 256 \| comments: 70

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Risk Everything (2007) web.archive.org \| points: 240 \| comments: 133

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Study first to link weed killer Roundup to convulsions in animals phys.org \| points: 231 \| comments: 165

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Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014) mattrichman.net \| points: 211 \| comments: 191

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Using the power of the sun to roast green chile sandia.gov \| points: 207 \| comments: 112

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A general overview of what happens before main() (2019) embeddedartistry.com \| points: 206 \| comments: 39

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H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home twitter.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 260

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India forced Twitter to put agent on payroll, whistleblower says reuters.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 39

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Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week twitter.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 282

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On Corpspeak goodreason.substack.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 96

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