Assange case: Key witness admits he lied — and Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance

Issue #469 — July 20, 2021

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Assange case: Key witness admits he lied thewire.in \| points: 821 \| comments: 252

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Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance theguardian.com \| points: 739 \| comments: 139

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Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech theregister.com \| points: 664 \| comments: 190

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Deurbanising the Web [pdf] lab6.com \| points: 449 \| comments: 390

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Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise? blogs.bmj.com \| points: 441 \| comments: 248

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Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure vice.com \| points: 435 \| comments: 199

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iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus twitter.com \| points: 395 \| comments: 151

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Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV gizmodo.com \| points: 360 \| comments: 248

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Julia Computing raises $24M Series A hpcwire.com \| points: 342 \| comments: 186

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Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] imaginary.org \| points: 321 \| comments: 244

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iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journalist iPhones appleinsider.com \| points: 286 \| comments: 154

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I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017) dewitters.com \| points: 277 \| comments: 285

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“Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis ucsf.edu \| points: 276 \| comments: 114

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Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids news.berkeley.edu \| points: 273 \| comments: 143

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U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks axios.com \| points: 266 \| comments: 224

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Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks bbc.com \| points: 263 \| comments: 183

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Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs news.ycombinator.com \| points: 252 \| comments: 90

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Senet en.wikipedia.org \| points: 242 \| comments: 95

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Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 lore.kernel.org \| points: 222 \| comments: 135

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Key Modi rival Rahul Gandhi among potential Indian targets of NSO client theguardian.com \| points: 212 \| comments: 97

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Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance — and Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

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