The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon. Article 7046 words 11 votes
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior google privacy Article 6549 words 9 votes
Robots that can kill: Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare Article 5651 words 6 votes
The extortion economy: How insurance companies are fueling a rise in ransomware attacks security.cyber Article 3888 words 12 votes
A conservative senator’s crusade against Big Tech: Josh Hawley’s skewering of Silicon Valley has earned praise from some Democrats, but is it truly a sign that right and left agree on something? Article 4635 words 5 votes
Inside America’s dysfunctional trillion-dollar fighter-jet program Article 4600 words, published Aug 21 2019 8 votes
Forty rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange – by someone who was actually there Article 6084 words 8 votes
Silicon Valley's crisis of conscience: the private retreat centers where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions Article 6795 words 5 votes
Wirecutter has selected TunnelBear and Mullvad as the best current VPN services, and written extensively about how they made this decision security Article 10 158 words 26 votes
The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud Article 3976 words 13 votes
Interoperability and privacy: Squaring the circle privacy Article 3156 words, published Aug 13 2019 6 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 social media internet Article 5616 words, published Jul 19 2019 7 votes
YouTube said it was getting serious about hate speech. Over six weeks later, why is it still full of extremists? google social media Article 3414 words, published Jul 25 2019 23 votes
The fall of Mic was a warning - Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site social media facebook Article 7058 words 8 votes
Craigslist's nerdy founder wants to change the world -- starting with your daily news Article 3335 words 11 votes
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 social media Article 6281 words, published Jul 15 2019 11 votes
The dirty business of hosting hate online internet Article 4520 words, published Jul 11 2019 11 votes
Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks privacy security Article 6536 words, published Jun 28 2019 4 votes
Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks privacy security Article 6536 words, published Jun 28 2019 6 votes
The sinkhole that saved the internet: Keeping the 'kill switch' alive is the only thing preventing another WannaCry outbreak internet security.cyber Article 3380 words 20 votes
Google’s 4,000-word privacy policy is a secret history of the internet privacy google internet Article 17 959 words 7 votes
How a childhood of loneliness and anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet social media internet Article 3568 words, published Jun 29 2019 35 votes
The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you Article 4016 words 13 votes
Scary fast: How hypersonic missiles are touching off a new global arms race that threatens to change the nature of warfare Article 5440 words 9 votes
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 social media facebook Article 6263 words 28 votes
Rethinking open source: The challenges behind establishing a modern emulator Article 4280 words 21 votes
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? internet Article 5845 words 8 votes
Who has your back? Censorship edition 2019 - Report by the EFF that assesses major tech companies' content moderation policies social media Article 9474 words 8 votes
Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers browsers Article 3326 words, published Jun 4 2019 24 votes
Big mood machine - Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit Article 3839 words 12 votes
How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use: The second half of humanity is joining the internet internet Article 3855 words 4 votes
We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg Article 9747 words, published May 27 2019 10 votes
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 Article 3202 words, published May 31 2019 5 votes
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 social media Article 3130 words 21 votes
In 2017, Hussein Kesvani started getting regular Twitter messages from an anonymous Islamophobic user. Eventually he responded, they started talking, and arranged to meet social media Article published May 23 2019 7 votes
The trade secret - Firms that promised high-tech ransomware solutions almost always just pay the hackers security.cyber Article 9166 words 9 votes
Maciej Ceglowski's Senate testimony on privacy rights and data collection in a digital economy privacy Link 11 votes