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Monday 11th February, 2019 #

  • Noticed that Google Chrome is still force logging me in periodically, so I tried to use Firefox, first site I open was broken, the button I needed was greyed out and unclickable, back on Chrome it's clickable - Choice is a wonderful thing, when you can get it
  • Brigitte Nielsen on giving birth at 54 - ‘I was trying until there were no embryos left’ - All day yesterday I was dealing with an IP address that ended in .54, this modern world and all it's strange co-incidences
  • Journalism should be free - The piece explores some options that people are finding to fund journalism to make it accessible to larger numbers of people
  • Our Brains Aren’t Designed to Handle the Trump Era
  • Automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are now available to civilians and are being bought up by casinos, schools, car parks, but also housing associations and just about anyone that wants one (including criminals), and they are being networked together creating secret monitoring networks that have no government oversight
  • US military equipped with tiny spy drones - Black Hornets are nano-drones able to perform reconnaissance during combat operations.
  • Paris seeks $14 million from Airbnb for illegal adverts
  • Spike Lee on Liam Neeson racism row - 'It's bad all around'
  • 83% Of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Morally Wrong, Survey Says (6,000 adults in Europe and America were included in the survey)