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[Link] VICE Side Hustle: I Tried To Sell My Underwear Online To Pay My Rent
Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com
Everyone knows it: we’re in a cost of living crisis. Turns out a pandemic, an older generation obsessed with owning everything, and multiple catastrophic recessions don’t do great things to the economy. So VICE is trying to figure out what our options are.
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[Link] US lawmakers seek criminal probe of Amazon for lying about use of seller data
Read: 9/3/2022 arstechnica.com
Amazon lied to Congress about its use of third-party seller data, the House Judiciary Committee said today. In a letter to the Department of Justice, the committee chairs asked prosecutors to investigate the company for criminal obstruction of Congress.
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[Link] Piracy Icon LimeWire Is Coming Back, But As an NFT Marketplace
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
LimeWire as we knew it shut down in 2010, after a judge ruled that LimeWire’s creator, Mark Gorton, on charges of copyright infringement and helping others infringe artists’ copyrights. But here in 2022, LimeWire is back—as an NFT marketplace.
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[Link] Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A British firearms sales website's owner has called in the liquidators as his company faces data breach lawsuits – while continuing to trade from a newly incorporated business. Guntrader Ltd entered a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 October.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] 'Squid Game' Halloween Costumes Are Missing the Point
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Squid Game costumes have seamlessly slotted into this year's selection of Halloween costumes, to the point that at least one school district has banned them. Given the show's popularity, this was inevitable. It's still a little weird.
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[Link] Zillow Pumps the Brakes on Buying Homes
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
After preparing to go on a massive home-buying spree, Zillow abruptly reversed course and announced on Monday that it will not sign any new contracts for additional homes for the remainder of the year.
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[Link] Inside the Wild $500 Billion World of Counterfeit Goods
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
When faced with two seemingly identical products, most people would be tempted to buy the cheaper option. After all, who doesn’t love a bargain? The world of counterfeit goods is both much larger and more dangerous than you probably realize.
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