Alex Goldman appears in the following:
The Chopsticks Of The Future
Thursday, September 04, 2014
#35 - Stolen Pictures
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
What is Reddit's Definition of "Personal Info"?
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
No One Wants To Buy The World's Most Expensive .gif
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
News On The Website nationalreport.net is Fake
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Is It A Violation Of Your Child's Privacy To Write About His Porn Watching Habits?
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
California To Require Kill Switches To Deter Phone Theft
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Indian State Outlaws "Objectionable Content," Will Start Arresting People for Precrime
Monday, August 25, 2014
Congress Keeps Getting Banned From Wikipedia
Friday, August 22, 2014
Anonymous Distances Itself From Member Who Doxed The Wrong Cop
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
New Delaware Law Allows Users To Will Their Digital Assets To Their Descendants
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Facebook Attempts to Teach Its Users To Recognize Satire - With A "Satire" Tag
Monday, August 18, 2014
The old "The-Onion-being-mistaken-as-real-news" rubric is now so common at this point as to be mundane. In fact, the website "literally unbelievable" exists solely catalog unsuspecting Facebookers falling for The Onion's headlines. And The Onion is no longer the only site that traffics in parody that gets passed off as real news, it's just the best known, and most clearly satirical. Sites like The Daily Currant and The National Report - both less clearly satire and significantly less funny than The Onion - regularly get picked up as real news as well. Facebook is running a test on some users where it attempts to more clearly demarcate articles from The Onion as satire.
#34 - The Accidental Outing of Rwanda's Most Powerful Troll
Monday, August 18, 2014
The Rare Viral Internet Photo That Contributes To Understanding
Friday, August 15, 2014
Generally, photos that float around the internet are robbed of context, or hoaxes, or are attributed to events at which they didn't occur. So it's nice to see a photo that went viral, and rather than contribute to misunderstanding, it helped the person who posted it learn more about the world.
Anonymous Claims They've Identified the Police Officer Who Shot Michael Brown. What Should We Do With That Information? (UPDATED)
Thursday, August 14, 2014
The Ferguson Police Department initially promised to make public the name of the officer who killed 18-year old Michael Brown, and then reneged, citing concerns for the officers safety.
The Army's Robot Recruiter
Friday, August 08, 2014
Sergeant Star is a chatbot designed to influence potential recruits to enlist. Alex Goldman of our podcast TLDR wasn't sure how he felt about that, so he talked to the Army and a reporter who's covered recruitment abuses to consider the pros and cons of deploying a Siri to guide our decision to go to war.
This story originally appeared in a longer form on the TLDR Podcast. If you would like to hear a longer version of this story and Alex's update with Dave Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, follow this link.
Music: Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator. Special thanks to @M0X1 (Mo Xie) for the suggestion on Twitter!
#33 - Unfollow A Man
Thursday, August 07, 2014
So, Yeah, Those Russian Hackers? There Are Reasons To Be Skeptical
Thursday, August 07, 2014
Five reasons not to freak out over the latest reports of a massive personal data breach.
The Russian Hackers Behind the Largest Cyber Breach Ever
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
A group of Russian hackers has reportedly stolen 1.2 billion usernames and passwords and 500,000 emails addresses from people around the globe. According to a report published Tuesday in The New York Times, the cyber criminals collected the confidential information from 420,000 websites for everything from small businesses to Fortune ...
