Technology – Link(s) of the Day

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.

Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws.Conn...

Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country

Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence.

akintoye please pull your head out your ass

Couldn’t find this on Youtube for easier sharing. All credit goes to Akintoye.

Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

An internal police chief memo shows employees were directed to use ‘field interview cards’ which would then be reviewed

The Toll of a New Machine

It started with ATMs. Then gas stations. Now self-service kiosks are taking over airports and invading McDonald’s restaurants. Is this the face of the jobless recovery? Or will automation make service better for workers and customers alike?

Jon Rahm out of Memorial Tournament with COVID midway through record-setting performance

Jon Rahm is a professional golfer, which means that he spends a good amount of his life traveling, a lot of time on airplanes and in hotels and other common areas where a lot of people mass and spread germs.

An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing | Artnet News

“It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination,” the artist, Salvatore Garau, said of his sculpture.

The Extortion Economy

Ransomware has become one of the most common types of cyber-crime, devastating individuals, businesses, and government agencies. Law enforcement has largely failed to catch or deter the hackers, who are usually foreign. But we found that U.S. companies, exploiting regulatory loopholes and sometimes…

Cook: Companies like Facebook don’t deserve praise, “they deserve reform”

On Thursday–which is apparently Data Privacy Day at Apple–Tim Cook gave a speech at the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection 2021 conference. In it, he made some very pointed commen…