Jules Roscoe

1 month ago | 404media.co | Jules Roscoe

Wikipedia is one of the most valuable repositories of information ever created by humanity. Having your own Wikipedia page has become a kind of status symbol—proof that someone is important enough to enter the historical record. But, ironically, having your face in a Wikipedia page is often not flattering at all. In fact, Wikipedia portraits, often included in Wikipedia articles about celebrities, are so famously bad that there’s an Instagram page dedicated to them.

2 months ago | 404media.co | Jules Roscoe

Ziff Davis, the $2 billion media conglomerate that owns dozens of sites including PCMag, Lifehacker, IGN and CNET, is quietly taking diversity, equity, and inclusion information off of its website, 404 Media has learned. In the past month, the company removed information about diversity-focused employee resource groups, inclusion-based hiring goals, and diversity training for its workers and managers from its corporate website. The changes were first spotted by a Ziff Davis employee.

2 months ago | courtwatch.news | Jules Roscoe

2 months ago | 404media.co | Jules Roscoe

This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. To subscribe to Court Watch, click here. A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon’s patients filed a class action lawsuit against him earlier this month after they say he didn’t tell them that his patient information database had been hacked twice, and that their personal information and nude photos of themselves undergoing surgery had been posted online.

2 months ago | newenglanddiary.com | Jules Roscoe

From The Boston Guardian (New England Diary’s editor, Robert Whitcomb, is chairman of The Boston Guardian.)By Jules RoscoeBOSTONThe city’s new Downtown zoning plan has yet another draft, this time with a new district along Washington Street that will allow buildings of up to 500 feet tall, and Downtown residents are not happy.