Hearing exposes Turing’s lavish spending, while exec says they’re losing money.
Source: Greed, lies, and Shkreli’s smug “performance”: Lawmakers go ballistic
Category: Ignorant or unreasonable
Ex-Disney IT workers sue after being asked to train their own H-1B replacements | Ars Technica
Anger at Disney over last year’s hiring of foreign IT workers won’t relent.
Source: Ex-Disney IT workers sue after being asked to train their own H-1B replacements | Ars Technica
How Zano Raised Millions on Kickstarter and Left Most Backers with Nothing — Kickstarter — Medium
Kickstarter tasked me, a freelance reporter, to find out why a highly funded crowdfunding campaign for a palm-sized drone flamed out in…
Source: How Zano Raised Millions on Kickstarter and Left Most Backers with Nothing — Kickstarter — Medium
This year’s first batch of anti-science education bills surface in Oklahoma | Ars Technica
“Teach the controversy” is once again dressed up as “academic freedom.”
Source: This year’s first batch of anti-science education bills surface in Oklahoma | Ars Technica
California Legislator Says Encryption ‘Threatens Our Freedoms’ Calls For Ban On Encrypted Cell Phones | Techdirt
California assembly member Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) introduced the legislation, bill 1681, that would require any smartphone manufactured “on or after January 1, 2017, and sold in California after that date” to be “capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating system provider.”
Any smartphone that couldn’t be decrypted on demand would subject a seller to a $2,500 fine.
How The UK’s Counter-Terrorism And Security Act Has Made Law Enforcement Into The Literal Grammar Police | Techdirt
Sony On A Rampage Trademarking Common Terms: Attempted Registrations For ‘Let’s Play’ And ‘VRPG’ | Techdirt
It’s no secret that Sony has never been shy about wielding trademark like a cudgel. That said, there seems to be something new brewing with the company in its recent attempts to trademark fairly common terms, worrying some that it would use those trademarks in the same heavy-handed way. The first of those attempts was the recent Sony filing for a trademark on the term “Let’s Play”, which any gamer will recognize as the term for popular YouTube videos showing games being played, often offered by well-known YouTube personalities. While the USPTO had already refused the trademark on the grounds that a prior mark for “Let’z Play” had already been registered, a law firm that specializes in gaming law jumped in to try and have the court instead declare that “Let’s Play” is now a generic term.
For fsck’s SAKKE: GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor – researcher
Well, what did you expect?
Source: For fsck’s SAKKE: GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor – researcher
Scalia dismisses concept of religious neutrality in speech
METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday the idea of religious neutrality is not grounded in the country’s constitutional traditions and that God has been good to the U.S. exactly because Americans honor him.
Source: Scalia dismisses concept of religious neutrality in speech
91% of patients who survive opioid overdose are prescribed more opioids | Ars Technica
Examining a national database of health insurance claims, researchers found that 91 percent of patients who suffered a nonfatal overdose of prescription opioid painkillers continued getting prescriptions for opioids following the overdose. And, the researchers found, overdose survivors who kept taking high dosages of an opioid—including morphine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone—were twice as likely to have another overdose within two years.
Source: 91% of patients who survive opioid overdose are prescribed more opioids | Ars Technica