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Burglar breaks into escape room, then can’t escape

sudshr47 July 11, 2018

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No one wants to call for help in an escape room, especially if you’ve just broken into one.

Authorities in Vancouver, Washington, received emergency calls from a man on Sunday who’d broken into an escape room — only to find he genuinely couldn’t escape from it.

According to local newspaper The Columbian, 40-year-old Rye Wardlaw reportedly broke into Northwest Escape Experience in a strip mall on Sunday morning. 

The venue, like other escape rooms, offers themed rooms that require groups to solve puzzles in order to find their way out. Read more…

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What we know about Maryland’s controversial facial recognition database

sudshr47 June 29, 2018

When police had difficulty identifying the man whom they believed opened fire on a newsroom in Maryland, killing five people, they turned to one of the most controversial yet potent tools in the state’s law enforcement arsenal. As The New York Times reports, Anne Arundel County Police Chief Timothy Altomare’s department failed to ID its suspect […]

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Apple confirms that it will seal up law enforcement’s favorite iPhone cracking method

sudshr47 June 13, 2018

A new version of iOS will block a controversial loophole that law enforcement agencies have leveraged in order to crack into locked iPhones. In an upcoming version of iOS (likely iOS 12), Apple will include a feature known as USB Restricted Mode which limits access to a locked iPhone through its USB port. The feature […]

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YouTube deletes music videos created by gangs to ‘incite violence’

sudshr47 May 29, 2018

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YouTube has removed around 30 drill music videos after the UK’s Metropolitan (Met) police complained that the lyrics were “inciting” gang violence. 

Drill music is a form of trap music originating from the Chicago hip hop scene. 

The Met police commissioner Cressida Dick told LBC radio that drill music contains lyrics “about glamourising serious violence: murder, stabbings.”

“They describe the stabbings in great detail, joy and excitement,” she said. “Extreme violence against women is often talked about.” 

According to Dick, gangs in London have been producing drill music videos and sending messages to other gangs. “Most particularly, in London we have gangs who make drill videos and in those videos, they taunt each other,” she said. “They say what they’re going to do to each other and specifically what they are going to do to who.” Read more…

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Floyd Mayweather-backed Centra Tech ICO founders indicted for fraud

sudshr47 May 17, 2018

The founders of Centra Tech, a company that raised a $32 million ICO, have been indicted for wire fraud and securities fraud, charges that could lead to a minimum of five years in jail. The founders, Raymond Trapani, Sohrab Sharma, and Robert Farkas, were found guilty of trying to defraud investors with their ICO. The […]

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Social media handed “one-hour rule” for terrorist takedowns in Europe

sudshr47 March 2, 2018

 The European Commission is still considering whether to regulate social media platforms to ensure they promptly remove illegal content — be it terrorist propaganda, child sexual exploitation or hate speech but also commercial scams and even copyright breaches.  Read More

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Study shows software used to predict repeat offenders is no better at it than untrained humans

sudshr47 January 17, 2018

 COMPAS, a piece of software commonly used in the justice system to predict which offenders will find themselves behind bars again, is no better than soliciting random people on Mechanical Turk to determine the same thing, a new study has found. Oh, and they’re both racially biased. Read More

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Over 1,000 charged for sharing revenge porn on Facebook

sudshr47 January 16, 2018

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Over 1000 people have been charged for sharing sexually explicit content without consent on Facebook in the biggest case of its kind in Denmark.

According to Danish police, two videos and a sexually explicit image involving two 15-year-olds were originally posted to Facebook Messenger, the platform’s private chat service. The video was then shared hundreds of times across the platform, and now, a total of 1,004 young people have been charged — and about 800 are male, reports Bloomberg. While the content was posted by someone within Denmark, it’s unclear if everyone accused of sharing it are from the country. Read more…

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