What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?
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The Project Jengo saga: How Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll – and won
6 votes -
The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
6 votes -
Olympic destroyer - The untold story of the 2018 Olympics cyberattack
6 votes -
Google Pixel 4 and 4XL review: More than the sum of its sensors
5 votes -
Stories of twenty-five people who are racing to save us
14 votes -
The case for fiber to the home, today: Why fiber is a superior medium for 21st century broadband
11 votes -
The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt
12 votes -
Millions of the comments posted during public US debates like the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities
18 votes -
The story of the IBM Pentium 4 64-bit CPU
7 votes -
The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?
18 votes -
Developer of Checkm8 explains why the unpatchable iOS jailbreak exploit is a game changer
17 votes -
Four years in startups - Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns
6 votes -
Jack Conte, Patreon, and the plight of the creative class
11 votes -
Raising prices is hard
8 votes -
The story of Caroline Calloway and her ghostwriter Natalie
5 votes -
Face recognition, bad people and bad data
6 votes -
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.
11 votes -
Forty rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange – by someone who was actually there
8 votes -
Wirecutter has selected TunnelBear and Mullvad as the best current VPN services, and written extensively about how they made this decision
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
13 votes -
Interoperability and privacy: Squaring the circle
6 votes -
Three years of misery inside Google, the happiest company in tech
22 votes -
The Valve Index Ear Speakers - Research, design, and evolution
11 votes -
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
7 votes -
YouTube said it was getting serious about hate speech. Over six weeks later, why is it still full of extremists?
23 votes -
The fall of Mic was a warning - Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site
8 votes -
Craigslist's nerdy founder wants to change the world -- starting with your daily news
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
11 votes -
The dirty business of hosting hate online
11 votes -
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
6 votes -
The sinkhole that saved the internet: Keeping the 'kill switch' alive is the only thing preventing another WannaCry outbreak
20 votes -
How a childhood of loneliness and anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet
35 votes -
The culture war has finally come for Wikipedia
35 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
28 votes -
Rethinking open source: The challenges behind establishing a modern emulator
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?
8 votes -
WeChat is watching
8 votes -
Who has your back? Censorship edition 2019 - Report by the EFF that assesses major tech companies' content moderation policies
8 votes -
Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers
24 votes -
Tech and antitrust
5 votes -
Big mood machine - Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit
12 votes -
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
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
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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
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
7 votes -
The Federation Fallacy
18 votes