They hacked McDonald’s ice cream machines—and started a cold war
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Nothing breaks like AI heart - An interactive essay about artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence, and finding an ending
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I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
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Employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments
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I now own the Coinhive domain. Here's how I'm fighting cryptojacking and doing good things with content security policies.
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Inside a viral website - An account of running istheshipstillstuck.com
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What does your gaze reveal about you? On the privacy implications of eye tracking
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A comparative analysis of security, privacy, and censorship issues in TikTok and Douyin, both developed by ByteDance
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How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
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Asahi Linux (Linux on Apple Silicon) progress report: January / February 2021
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The internet doesn't have to be awful
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The small web is beautiful
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The garden of forking memes
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The internet’s most beloved fanfiction site is undergoing a reckoning
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Reddit: Organized lightning
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Tim Cook expanded Apple in ways Steve Jobs used to resist
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The real novelty of the ARPANET
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Arlan Hamilton is building a new kind of venture capital - An interview with the founder of Backstage Capital
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On the trail of the robocall king
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Inside eBay’s cockroach cult: The ghastly story of a stalking scandal
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Neofeudalism and the digital manor
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The design of the Roland Juno Oscillators
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Systems design explains the world: volume 1
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How and why I stopped buying new laptops
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Understanding ProRAW: A journey into cameras, RAW, and a look at what makes ProRAW so special
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The impact of toxic influencers on communities
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Pakistan’s government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back
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Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
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Remote learning is here to stay — can we make it better?
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Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
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Daring Fireball review: The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max
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How do you describe TikTok? The automatic culture of the world's favorite new social network
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youtube-dl's creator and initial maintainer explains the origins of the project
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Web history - Chapter 5: Publishing
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Veronica Mars and NTLM password hashes
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Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal
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Thoughts and observations on Apple’s ‘Hi, Speed’ iPhone 12 event
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Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it
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What working at Stripe has been like
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Meet the customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to talk to you
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How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face
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Project Gemini: Stripped back web // souped up Gopher internet protocol
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Viral hate, election interference, and hacked accounts: Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk
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2020 Bundles - An overview of bundle-based offerings from major tech companies
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When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
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Web history - Chapter 4: Search
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6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using the site to manipulate voters — and failed to act
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Analysis of UK charity websites finds that tracking is prevalent, with almost all of the most popular charities including trackers for advertising or data brokers and failing to comply with GDPR/PECR
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Human rights and "technical protection measures" (DRM) - Lessons from twenty-two years of the US DMCA
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Solar energy and mechanical triggers power the Engage, a console at the cutting edge of computer engineering
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