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Hot Links: McDonald's Pink Slime, Apple's Fake Products

It’s almost food now! McDonald’s has finally decided to stop selling pink slime beef that’s chemically processed like something out of The Jungle.

Is Apple the KGB? The company is so secretive that it apparently puts new engineers on fake products to test their allegiance or something.

Russian Prime Minister (and daredevil) Vladimir Putin wrote a guest essay in the Financial Times about corruption and tech in Russia.

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In Florida, pythons and anacondas are obliterating ecosystems by eating everything in sight.

Julian Assange will guest star on The Simpsons. Finally, Wikileaks will now have its own meme for uncreative jokesters to quote verbatim.

There’s a reason Snake Plissken was named Snake. Snakes destroy everything.

Scientific American has a nice breakdown on Google’s new all-encompassing privacy policy. Embrace your Goog overlords, my friends.

Sounds like a movie starring Darius Miles: Claremont McKenna College, a prestigious California school that’s the ninth-ranked liberal arts college in the U.S., faked its SAT scores to get a higher ranking.

Now do this a couple million more times: In a G+ hangout, President Obama offered to forward some woman’s husband’s résumé to some of his industry homies.

According to a think tank, racial segregation in our cities is at an all-time low. Unfortunately, it still hasn’t paid off in equality for all.

Trolling pays: Fox News is has topped the primetime news ratings for the tenth year in a row.