Who owns the internet? (What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.)
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Over a million IP addresses geolocate to a house in Pretoria, South Africa, causing people (and police) to show up regularly in search of criminals, stolen phones, and more
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Should you donate to the Wikimedia Foundation?
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YouTube breeds sociopaths and monsters. Not through audience’s demands but how the platform itself is designed.
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Prime and punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace
10 votes -
Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk: Life inside Tesla's production hell
13 votes -
The state of web browsers - 2019 edition
7 votes -
Four days trapped at sea with crypto’s nouveau riche
16 votes -
Back from the edge: It’s easy to blame online rhetoric for violence. The reality is much harder
7 votes -
The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
11 votes -
Robot-soldiers, stealth jets and drone armies: the future of war
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Delay, deny and deflect: How Facebook’s leaders fought through crisis
16 votes -
What WhatsApp’s upcoming monetisation means for the company and its 1.5 billion users
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Personal Panopticons - A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it
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In the age of AI, is seeing still believing?
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Pentagon working on tech to identify protestors with bad/non-existent opsec
19 votes -
Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion Foxconn factory boondoggle
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Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
38 votes -
It started as an online gaming prank. Then it turned deadly - the story of the "swatting" that killed Andrew Finch
18 votes -
Curbing hate online: What companies should do now
8 votes -
The iPhone XR
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Apps installed on millions of Android phones tracked user behavior to execute a multimillion dollar ad fraud scheme
28 votes -
Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property?
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Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem
24 votes -
The rise and demise of RSS
11 votes -
Alexa, should we trust you?
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New technology favors tyranny. Yuval Noah Harrari on artificial intelligence, democracy, and the bigger picture
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Raised by YouTube - The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected
11 votes -
How Charlottesville forced Reddit to clean up its act
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The right to bear arms (and say shocking stuff on Facebook)
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The European Union versus the Internet
12 votes -
Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy?
31 votes -
The graphing calculator story
14 votes -
Who controls your data? Nine reporters in London, Paris, New York & San Francisco filed more than 150 requests for personal data to 30+ popular tech companies
8 votes -
What happens when your bomb-defusing robot becomes a weapon
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Even before electricity, robots freaked people out
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The impossible job: Inside Facebook’s struggle to moderate two billion people
14 votes -
There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, US Senator Ron Wyden says
12 votes -
How an international hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 million
12 votes -
Danah Boyd - The messy fourth estate
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The cautious path to strategic advantage: How militaries should plan for AI
12 votes -
Shenzhen Tech Girl Naomi Wu: My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
41 votes -
Galaxy Note 9 hands-on review: A $999 water-cooled, AI camera beast
7 votes -
‘It’s our time to serve the Motherland’ How Russia’s war in Georgia sparked Moscow’s modern-day recruitment of criminal hackers
6 votes -
Magic Leap One Creator Edition preview: A flawed glimpse of mixed reality's amazing potential
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How to block ads like a pro
34 votes -
The SIM Hijackers
8 votes -
The NSA’s hidden spy hubs in eight US cities
7 votes -
Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” three major news sites aren’t HTTPS
18 votes -
We are all public figures now
31 votes