The cloud is a prison. Can the local-first software movement set us free? ~tech Article 3224 words 35 votes
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads – then a Norwegian regulator threatened daily fines ~tech social media facebook privacy Article 543 words 51 votes
UK vendors started boycotting the Etsy platform over its payment reserves system ~finance business Article 708 words 18 votes
Twitter threatens legal action against US nonprofit that tracks hate speech ~tech social media Article 425 words 113 votes
The vanishing family: They all have a 50-50 chance of inheriting a cruel genetic mutation — which means disappearing into dementia in middle age ~health Article 7660 words, published Jul 20 2023 29 votes
"Short Term 12 remains that rarest of things: a truly undiscovered jewel. A diamond still buried in coal." ~movies Article 3791 words 11 votes
Teaching myself calculus at sixty-five ~humanities education Article 1323 words, published Jul 8 2022 24 votes
Get the lowdown on 'e/acc' — Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about progress at all costs, which has been embraced by Marc Andreessen ~tech Article 737 words 32 votes
What would the internet of people look like now? ~tech social media internet Article 1003 words, published Jul 22 2023 39 votes
Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in Fresno, California ~health medicine Article 407 words 32 votes
Like many men, I had few close friends. So I began a friendship quest. ~life.men Article 1865 words 72 votes
I tried to convince Steve Curry not to take his deadly hike when I met him in Death Valley. The memory haunts me. ~hobbies Article 52 votes
Cryptography may offer a solution to the massive AI-labeling problem ~tech Article 1125 words 9 votes
A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and asexually produced offspring ~science Article 361 words 55 votes
Banks working to develop global standards on accounting for carbon emissions in bond or stock sale underwriting have voted to exclude most emissions from their own carbon footprint numbers ~enviro pollution.air Article 718 words 10 votes
Week in insights: Tax progressivity can go further than we think ~transport Article 1221 words 6 votes
Manchester United agree deal to sign Atalanta forward Rasmus Højlund ~sports.football Article 530 words 5 votes
Lauren James scored a wonder strike to lead England to victory over Denmark in Women's World Cup ~sports.football Article 492 words 5 votes
Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints ~transport Article 3128 words 59 votes
Saguaro cacti collapsing in Arizona extreme heat, scientist says ~enviro climate change Article 257 words 17 votes
In rare move, Japanese pop star, Shinjiro Atae, comes out publicly as gay ~lgbt Article 1571 words 46 votes
Intellectual property attorney claims that more than 900 companies have trademarked X, Musk's company will face lawsuits ~tech social media Article 451 words 18 votes
Inside American Starbucks' dirty war against organized US labor ~food Article 3964 words, published Jul 21 2023 23 votes
US health insurance giant Cigna sued over algorithm allegedly used to deny coverage to hundreds of thousands of patients ~health Article 559 words 27 votes
Study of elite US college admissions data suggests being very rich is its own qualification ~life education.higher Article 2987 words 55 votes
Dutch e-bike maker VanMoof declared bankrupt ~transport Article 336 words, published Jul 18 2023 21 votes
The erasure of Islam from the poetry of Rumi ~humanities religion Article 1857 words, published Jan 5 2017 30 votes
Chinese man convicted for building bridge for village ignites public debate over judicial power ~news china.baicheng crime law Link 26 votes
‘Not for machines to harvest’: Data revolts break out against AI ~tech internet social media Article 1705 words 40 votes
How a drug maker profited by slow-walking a promising HIV therapy ~health medicine Article 1796 words 21 votes
Electric vehicles are sending toxic tire particles into the water, soil, and air ~transport Article 1550 words 19 votes
Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian ~humanities.languages Article 641 words 13 votes
Apple tests ‘Apple GPT,’ develops generative AI tools to catch OpenAI ~tech privacy microsoft apple.gpt google.cloud Article 17 votes
AI often mangles African languages. A network of thousands of coders and researchers is working to develop translation tools that understand their native languages ~tech Link 17 votes
When the war came to Kherson, a small group of scientists ventured into the ruined city to rescue a unique herbarium ~science Article 695 words, published Jul 8 2023 16 votes