Jules Roscoe

3 days ago | technewstube.com | Jules Roscoe

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3 days ago | wired.com | Jules Roscoe

Imagine you meet someone new. Be it on a dating app or social media, you chance across each other online and get to talking. They’re genuine and relatable, so you quickly take it out of the DMs to a platform like Telegram or WhatsApp. You exchange photos and even video call each over. You start to get comfortable. Then, suddenly, they bring up money. They need you to cover the cost of their Wi-Fi access, maybe. Or they’re trying out this new cryptocurrency.

1 month ago | 404media.co | Jules Roscoe

Adrian Basar did not want to become a distant-water fisherman. With 22-hour workdays and pay of around 450 dollars per month, it’s not the most glamorous—or fulfilling, or generally safe—job. But Basar took it to help support his seven-sibling family. One of them is currently in university, studying mathematics. “I support them so they can go to school,” Basar told me, speaking in Indonesian through an interpreter.

2 months 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.

Feb 20, 2025 | 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.