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The writing was on the wall, or rather, on the City of Chicago’s Inspector General’s report:
The CPD data examined by OIG does not support a conclusion that ShotSpotter is an effective tool in developing evidence of gun-related crime.
Kind of a big problem when the tech was acquired specifically to address Chicago’s years-long acceleration in gun-related crime. That report was issued in August...
Back in March, Walled Culture wrote about the terrible job that academic publishers are doing in terms of creating backups of the articles they publish. We also mentioned there two large-scale archives that are trying to help, Sci-Hub and Anna’s Archive. Legal action by publishers against the former seems to have led to a halt to new items being added to its collection. This has resulted in...
If it can be accessed via the internet, it will be. That’s a fact too many entities learn far too late. Amazingly, this wholly expected outcome often comes as a surprise to entities with lots power, money, or expertise — the sort of people you’d think would have considered all possible outcomes before giving a new internet-facing project the green light.
Instead, the opposite is true, more often...
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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous response to a comment arguing that Cloudflare isn’t very important to the internet:
I would like to hear your argument as to why DDoS mitigation is not an essential part of hosting a website in 2024.
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about the House looking to make KOSA and COPPA worse:
I get the impression that...
Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, some investors were getting sick of AT...
As we just talked about the joint lawsuit filed in Japan by Nintendo and The Pokémon Co. against Pocketpair, the company behind the hit game Palworld, we still don’t have all the details. But one of the strange things about the suit is that is not a copyright or trademark suit, which is what everyone expected as soon as the game launched. Instead, this is supposedly a patent infringement suit,...
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MAGA world’s false belief that Joe Biden is “censoring conservatives” on social media may actually kill the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). As we mentioned earlier this week, while KOSA has already passed the Senate and advanced in a different form out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, there were still big concerns among House leadership that likely prevented the bill from moving forward...