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28 September 2016 / SF News / Eve Batey

Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Kindle Catfishing


  • Florida bar puts Kaepernick jersey decals in urinals. [WFLA]
  • Even BlackBerry doesn't want to deal with their own phones. [CNet]
  • Google's launching a suite of tools designed to make creating and maintaining public Wi-Fi a breeze. Now if they could just launch a suite of tools to prevent users of that public wi-fi from posting spam comments to SFist, and/or a tool to prevent legit commenters attempting to use that then-blocked IP from sending us dementedly abusive emails accusing us of "censorship"... [Wired]
  • The Obama administration just released its "Housing Development Toolkit," taking some cities (like SF) to task for stifling new housing construction and tossing some suggested fixes our way. [Curbed SF]
  • San Francisco-based LendUp agreed to pay more than $6 million to settle regulatory investigations into the company's lending practices that occurred in the startup's early days. [SF Business Times]
  • [Streetsblog SF] wonders, "Was the Turning Point on Taraval a Teachable Moment?"
  • SF man faces the music in Fairfield crime. [Daily Republic]
  • How one Amazon Kindle catfishing scam made millions of dollars. [ZDnet]
  • Uber wants to be a long-haul trucker. [Reuters]

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