Monthly Archives: September 2023

Lego Is a Company Haunted by Its Own Plastic

Lego Is a Company Haunted by Its Own Plastic
Lego has built an empire out of plastic. It was always thus. The bricks weren’t originally made from wood, or metal, or some other material. Ever since the company’s founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen, bought Denmark’s first plastic-injection molding machine in 1946, Lego pieces have been derived from oil, a fossil fuel.The fiddly little parts that…
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Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan

Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan
WIRED broke the news on Wednesday that SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is acquiring some assets—including patents, customers, and employees—from the firm Geolitica, which developed the notorious predictive policing software PredPol. WIRED also exclusively reported this week that the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center is calling on the US Justice Department to…
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