Interoperability and privacy: Squaring the circle
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Three years of misery inside Google, the happiest company in tech
22 votes -
The Valve Index Ear Speakers - Research, design, and evolution
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
15 votes -
The life and death of an Instagram fish - What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create
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YouTube said it was getting serious about hate speech. Over six weeks later, why is it still full of extremists?
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The fall of Mic was a warning - Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site
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Craigslist's nerdy founder wants to change the world -- starting with your daily news
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Is it okay to laugh at Florida Man? What it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along
11 votes -
The dirty business of hosting hate online
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Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks
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Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks
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The sinkhole that saved the internet: Keeping the 'kill switch' alive is the only thing preventing another WannaCry outbreak
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How a childhood of loneliness and anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet
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The culture war has finally come for Wikipedia
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Bodies in seats: At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives
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Rethinking open source: The challenges behind establishing a modern emulator
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Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
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WeChat is watching
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Who has your back? Censorship edition 2019 - Report by the EFF that assesses major tech companies' content moderation policies
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Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers
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Tech and antitrust
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Big mood machine - Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit
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How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use: The second half of humanity is joining the internet
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We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg
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Skywriting - The bizarre art form invented to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes could bounce back in the Instagram age, or it could die with the few people who know how to do it
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Confessions of a Reddit 'Karma Whore': My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone
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In 2017, Hussein Kesvani started getting regular Twitter messages from an anonymous Islamophobic user. Eventually he responded, they started talking, and arranged to meet
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The Federation Fallacy
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Laying out all the evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai did not invent email
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The trade secret - Firms that promised high-tech ransomware solutions almost always just pay the hackers
9 votes -
The global internet is disintegrating. What comes next?
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Angry Birds and the end of privacy
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Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
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Maciej Ceglowski's Senate testimony on privacy rights and data collection in a digital economy
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The long tail
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“Just Switch to Linux” Is The Loser’s Game
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The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever
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The productivity pit: Work communication software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.
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Ireland is blocking the world on data privacy - it's the designated lead regulator for many companies under EU privacy law, but it's in bed with the companies it should be regulating
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The Black feminists who saw the alt-right threat coming
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15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
6 votes -
A big jump for Wolfram Language and Mathematica: Version 12
9 votes -
Some high-profile male tech executives accused of sexual misconduct are getting second chances
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VPN - A Very Precarious Narrative
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The golden age of YouTube is over - The platform was built on the backs of independent creators, but now YouTube is abandoning them for more traditional content
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‘It’s genuine, you know?’: Why the online influencer industry is going ‘authentic’
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How I eat for free in NYC using Python, automation, artificial intelligence, and Instagram
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CloudFlare just launched Warp – a privacy-focused VPN that's supposed to make your Internet-surfing faster
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The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present
14 votes