Indexing the information age - Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
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How Google is killing independent sites like ours
59 votes -
Exodus bitcoin wallet: $490K swindle
6 votes -
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
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Robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers for over thirty years; AI vendors are ignoring it or proliferating too fast to block
41 votes -
Twitter/X provides premium perks to Hezbollah, other US-sanctioned groups
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How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT.
47 votes -
Over three decades, tech obliterated media - my front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe
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Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
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"By all means, go after big tech. But for the love of the next generation, don’t pretend that it’s going to help vulnerable youth."
33 votes -
Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo's misdeeds in China
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I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine
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Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet (LiveJournal, AIM, and other pre-Facebook internet things)
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The Hofmann Wobble - Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory
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The quiet death of Ello’s big dreams
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Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details
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Predictions from 2018 reviewed
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The perfect webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms
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My parents’ dementia felt like the end of joy. But when they got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations.
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Fixing Macs door-to-door
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FT interview with the Hinge (dating app) founder
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India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
19 votes -
AI and trust
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Charity for profit: Brandfluence/Softgiving, the marketing agency behind some of Twitch's most successful fundraising streams quietly collected 42% of donations
26 votes -
Largest dataset powering AI images removed after discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Materials
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A new internet standard called L4S could significantly lower the amount of time we spend waiting for things to load
37 votes -
Gaza and the future of information warfare
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A coder considers the waning days of the craft
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Inside OpenAI, a rift between billionaires and altruistic researchers unravelled over the future of artificial intelligence
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Twitter’s former head of trust and safety finally breaks her silence
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Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
74 votes -
Advertisers want to place ads next to content that is 'Brand Safe'. The end of Jezebel is a case study of how that impacts hard hitting news sites
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How a tiny pacific island became a global capital of cybercrime
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Sony announces a9 III: World's first full-frame global shutter camera
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The people who ruined the internet
73 votes -
The costs of not investing in American public infrastructure, research, and education
29 votes -
Just paying Figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works
23 votes -
How will AI learn next?
15 votes -
Searching for Susy Thunder [a famous computer hacker of the 80s]
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Meta in Myanmar, Part 1: The Setup
12 votes -
Memories of Steve
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Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has a plan to defend photography from AI | Discussion of Getty's AI image generator and related topics
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‘Who benefits?’ Inside the EU’s fight over scanning for child sex content.
23 votes -
The movement for affordable, community-led broadband: Grassroots organizations like NYC Mesh want to close the digital divide, one rooftop at a time
20 votes -
A case of sexual violence in cyberspace (1993)
25 votes -
Matrix 2.0: The future of Matrix
12 votes -
Apple unveils iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
48 votes -
The pirate preservationists - a long history
20 votes -
Direct solar power: Off-grid without batteries
28 votes -
After two decades the dominance of Google Search comes into question
85 votes