⌨ Thousands of Popular Websites See What You Type-Before You Hit Submit

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Thousands of Popular Websites See What You Type-Before You Hit Submit. When you sign up for a newsletter, make a hotel reservation, or check out online, you probably take for granted that if you mistype your email address three times or change your mind and X out of the page, it doesn't matter. Nothing actually… (Lily Hay Newman / WIRED)

Arvind Narayanan @random_walker

A new study finds 3,000 websites on which third-party tracking companies scoop up what you type into forms in real time — even if you never hit submit. This happens on about 1,800 websites for E.U. users too, likely in violation of the GDPR.

wired.comThousands of Popular Websites See What You Type—Before You Hit SubmitA surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form.

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The Forgotten Stage of Human Progress. What if we invented a technology to save the planet—and the world refused to use it? This haunting hypothetical first popped into my head when I was reading about Paxlovid, the antiviral drug developed by Pfizer. If taken within a few days… (Derek Thompson / The Atlantic)

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

"What if humans invented a technology to save the planet, and then just refused to use it?" This isn't a riddle. It's reality. From COVID vaccines to nuclear power, Americans keep failing to implement or deploy world-saving inventions. I wrote about why:

theatlantic.comThe Forgotten Stage of Human ProgressInvention is easily overrated, and implementation is often underrated.

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Starbucks Baristas Are Unionizing, and Even Howard Schultz Can't Make Them Stop. The return of the company's longtime CEO hasn't slowed the workers, who are inspiring activists at Amazon and showing the extent of labor's new power. On April 4, the first day of Howard Schultz's third go-round as chief executive officer of… (Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg)

Josh Eidelson @josheidelson

New: My @BW cover story on how and why the the Starbucks union movement has spread with such stunning speed and scope, and what comes next bloomberg.com/news/features/… Reported from Buffalo, Boston, NYC, Virginia, Knoxville, Memphis, Mesa, Santa Cruz, and Seattle

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Elon Musk's Belated Disclosure of Twitter Stake Triggers Regulators' Probes. Federal regulators are investigating Elon Musk's late disclosure last month of his sizable stake in Twitter Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, a lag that allowed him to buy more stock without alerting other… (Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal)

Tim Hanrahan @TimJHanrahan

Federal regulators are investigating Elon Musk’s late disclosure last month of his sizable stake in Twitter, according to people familiar with the matter, a lag that allowed him to buy more stock without alerting other shareholders to his ownership. wsj.com/articles/elon-…

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Inflation barreled ahead at 8.3% in April from a year ago, remaining near 40-year highs. Inflation rose again in April, continuing a climb that has pushed consumers to the brink and is threatening the economic expansion, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of prices for… (Jeff Cox / CNBC)

Jeff Cox @JeffCoxCNBCcom

Inflation barreled ahead at 8.3% in April from a year ago, remaining near 40-year highs

cnb.cxInflation barreled ahead at 8.3% in April from a year ago, remaining near 40-year highsInflation as gauged by the consumer price index was expected to rise 8.1% year over year in April, according to Dow Jones estimates.

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