Digital Content Piracy Is on the Rise: Not very surprising given ‘legitimate’ services are raising prices, reducing libraries, adding adverts and generally making the experience of using them worse.
Crime
2024-10-04
2024-09-27
Eric Adams charged with taking bribes and foreign campaign contributions: Another US politico-crime first - Adams is the first sitting New York City mayor to be subject to criminal charges.
2024-09-22
Criminal Investigative Analysis: Part 1 of 4 of a Law Enforcement Bulletin article I found when looking up whether the Behavioural Analysis Unit from “Criminal Minds” was real - it is, but what they do is usually rather different.
2024-09-19: Now Hezbollah's walkie-talkies are exploding
2024-09-07: Fake streamers listening to fake music by fake artists on Spotify allegedly made a single fraudster at least $10 million
2024-08-14: So far in 2024, one woman in the UK has allegedly been killed by a man every three days on average. …
2024-08-13: The UK far right riots show the days of overt and violent racist behaviour in the UK are far from over
2024-07-16: 404 Media reveals the “Face Fraud” marketplace, wherein for a few dollars you can buy a …
2024-07-14: Contra the New Yorker, Christopher Snowdon gives us some reasons to believe that the case …
2024-07-02: Last month Ticketmaster got hacked by a group known as ShinyHunters, the same group that previously …
2024-06-29: New scandal dropped: The Conservative officials who bet on the election date based on inside knowledge
2024-06-24: Another huge NHS data leak following a ransomware attack
2024-05-30: Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his historic …
2024-05-22: The New Yorker suggests there was little evidence behind the conviction of Lucy Letby
2024-05-19: In reassuring news, it turns out that the security code needed to get into the UK’s National …
2024-05-03: Tom Hunt's predicament is a perfect example of why voter ID laws are usually bad laws
2024-05-03: For future reference, there is a website where you can find out what your local candidates for the …
2024-04-19: Let's not make the update to the 1824 Vagrancy Act worse than the original
2024-04-18: Trump forced to see mean memes about him shared by prospective jurors (from Rolling Stone) Donald …
2024-03-24: 📚 Finished reading The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow.
2024-01-25: 1 mobile phone gets stolen every 6 minutes in London, back in 2022 at least. That year 90,864 got …
2024-01-23: The shocking role of modern-day slavery in the UK care sector
2024-01-20: Computerphile takes us through some of the technical issues found with the Post Office Horizon …
2023-11-23: The Conservative party appears to hate law and order
2023-11-17: There's now a dangerous black market in anti-obesity drugs