Interesting Links for 18-05-2023
May. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Why did the Southern States secede?
- (tags:USA history civilwar slavery )
- 2. When a Far Right Shitposter Runs a Social Media Platform
- (tags:USA politics fraud disinformation socialmedia ElonMusk Twitter )
- 3. The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD. Can you quickly tell which of the URLs is fraudulent?
- (tags:hacking security web )
- 4. Alastair Campbell seems to have come around on fixing the voting system
- (tags:politics voting reform labour )
- 5. Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before
- (tags:titanic 3d scanning )
- 6. Why did the UK do so badly at Eurovision?
- (tags:eurovision music UK )
- 7. Meet the people who carry out virtual relationships for money - two minutes at a time
- (tags:relationships fraud business )
- 8. 94% of people don't want to be tracked online - why are sites still asking for consent to do so?
- (tags:cookies surveillance web )
- 9. Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices
- (tags:uk europe india trade rice )
- 10. Edinburgh's Water of Leith nature project sees floating habitats placed to support wildlife
- (tags:edinburgh rivers nature )
- 11. The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code
- (tags:europe security software )