This day in history

2001, 2011, 2016, 2020

#20yrsago Steve Ballmer: “DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS” http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/dancemonkeyboy.mp

#10yrsago $300 Million Button: making customers create logins to buy cost etailer $300M/year https://web.archive.org/web/20090122015711/http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/

#5yrsago How and why to short Uber https://qz.com/707947/investors-have-placed-a-one-way-bet-on-uber-which-made-us-want-to-figure-out-a-way-to-short-it/

#1yrago Stiglitz quits Panama’s official money-laundering panel over internal sabotage https://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-tax-idUSKCN10G24Z

#1yrago Web companies can track you — and price-gouge you — based on your battery life https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/OpenWPM_1_million_site_tracking_measurement.pdf

#5yrsago 1 billion computer monitors vulnerable to undetectable firmware attacks https://defcon.org/html/defcon-24/dc-24-speakers.html#Cui

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy Surveillance…