How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
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The conscience of Silicon Valley
12 votes -
Analysis of health misinformation on Facebook finds that it's receiving billions of views—about four times as many as content from leading health institutions—and only 16% has a warning label
13 votes -
The graphing calculator story
9 votes -
Bill Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice”
7 votes -
TikTok and the Sorting Hat - TikTok's algorithm is so good at organizing users into subcultures that it was able to skip the awkward early phases of new social media
11 votes -
Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds
20 votes -
CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire
10 votes -
An analysis of over 15,000 popular Google searches found that the first organic result is now usually almost halfway down the page, and requires scrolling multiple screen-lengths on mobile to reach
21 votes -
The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
20 votes -
Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built
4 votes -
The TikTok war - How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, and why its Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern
8 votes -
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media
16 votes -
Seeking truth in a time of misinformation
9 votes -
Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
8 votes -
De-escalating social media conflict: Admitting mistakes
12 votes -
GPT-3 writing creative fiction on its own
3 votes -
Spies, lies, and stonewalling: What it’s like to report on Facebook
5 votes -
Apple and Facebook—a contrast of corporate strategies
3 votes -
Moroccan journalist targeted with network injection attacks using NSO Group’s tools
2 votes -
Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter
7 votes -
CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet
6 votes -
Appropriate technology
6 votes -
Opportunities for watchOS 7
3 votes -
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017
33 votes -
Anatomy of an internet shutdown
7 votes -
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it
11 votes -
Exam anxiety: How remote test-proctoring is creeping students out
9 votes -
John Gruber reviews the iPad Magic Keyboard
5 votes -
The devastating decline of Lee Holloway, one of the co-founders of Cloudflare
24 votes -
The far-right helped create the world’s most powerful facial recognition technology
11 votes -
Agent57: Outperforming the human Atari benchmark
7 votes -
Why doctors hate their computers
23 votes -
Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
27 votes -
The coder and the dictator
3 votes -
The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas
13 votes -
Censored contagion - How information on the coronavirus is managed on Chinese social media
9 votes -
To rein in traffic-snarling new mobility modes, LA needed digital savvy. Then came a privacy uproar, a murky cast of consultants, and a legal crusade by Uber.
3 votes -
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world
9 votes -
Students say the Lambda School coding bootcamp isn't delivering on its promises, with concerns about poor instruction and prospects while being bound by income-sharing agreements
16 votes -
Security researchers partner with Chrome to take down over 500 browser extensions in a fraud network affecting 1.7 million users
12 votes -
The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened
20 votes -
Will Spotify ruin podcasting?
13 votes -
The deal of the century (or, the alliance of losers)
6 votes -
Deep sea diving: The state of submarine cable technology
6 votes -
The internet of beefs
11 votes -
Book Review: Human Compatible
4 votes -
Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case
10 votes -
The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
23 votes -
Which tech company is really the most evil?
8 votes