Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
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Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
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There’s no fire alarm for artificial general intelligence
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Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match.com — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish
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Behind the one-way mirror: A deep dive into the technology of corporate surveillance
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In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group
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Oil is the new data
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Behind the Smiles - Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed
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Good challenges vs. bad challenges
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The strange life and mysterious death of Jerrold Haas, co-founder of the educational-blockchain startup Tessr
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A new funding model for open source software
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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
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How to stay safe online and prevent phishing with FIDO2, WebAuthn and security keys
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The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
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Olympic destroyer - The untold story of the 2018 Olympics cyberattack
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Google Pixel 4 and 4XL review: More than the sum of its sensors
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Stories of twenty-five people who are racing to save us
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The case for fiber to the home, today: Why fiber is a superior medium for 21st century broadband
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The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt
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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
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The story of the IBM Pentium 4 64-bit CPU
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The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?
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Developer of Checkm8 explains why the unpatchable iOS jailbreak exploit is a game changer
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Four years in startups - Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns
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Jack Conte, Patreon, and the plight of the creative class
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Raising prices is hard
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The story of Caroline Calloway and her ghostwriter Natalie
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Face recognition, bad people and bad data
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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.
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Forty rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange – by someone who was actually there
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Wirecutter has selected TunnelBear and Mullvad as the best current VPN services, and written extensively about how they made this decision
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The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud
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Interoperability and privacy: Squaring the circle
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Three years of misery inside Google, the happiest company in tech
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The Valve Index Ear Speakers - Research, design, and evolution
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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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
21 votes