Mozilla: The greatest tech company left behind
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Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government
7 votes -
Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%.
31 votes -
Bill Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice”
7 votes -
Book review: The Revenge of Analog
4 votes -
Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you
22 votes -
Beware of Facts Man
11 votes -
US Congress made Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google CEOs sweat during antitrust enforcement hearing
10 votes -
CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire
10 votes -
Here’s Donald Trump’s plan to regulate social media
7 votes -
Lawyers demand US Military stop violating free speech on Twitch
10 votes -
The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
20 votes -
I have cancer and now my Facebook feed is full of "alternative care" ads
36 votes -
The 👁👄👁 debacle sums up tech's race issues
19 votes -
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media
16 votes -
Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco?
10 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and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated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 -
The Walkman, forty years on
6 votes -
I joined Parler, the right-wing echo chamber’s new favorite alt-Twitter
27 votes -
Wrongfully accused by an algorithm
7 votes -
America needs a ministry of (actual) truth
10 votes -
Shows of support for racial justice from social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don’t address the way the platforms have been weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs
11 votes -
Twitter labels Donald Trump video tweet as "manipulated media" as it cracks down on misinformation
13 votes -
Dating apps exposed 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more
11 votes -
An army of volunteers is taking on vaccine disinformation online
6 votes -
Reddit is finally facing its legacy of racism
45 votes -
Scuba divers could send sea life shots in real time using an aquatic internet service
3 votes -
Twitter removes Chinese misinformation campaign
10 votes -
Apple plans to announce move to its own Mac chips at WWDC
22 votes -
Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
16 votes -
Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent Covid-19 spread: "We are very much interested in the automated tracking of students"
6 votes -
How a raccoon became an aardvark
7 votes -
Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest US President Donald Trump posts
16 votes -
Galaxy Z Flip comes with an unexpectedly low-tech vibe
6 votes -
US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election
10 votes -
How lockdown is changing shopping for good
8 votes -
Interview with Musk on his Twitter usage, selling off his possessions, and the historic upcoming launch
7 votes -
America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis
9 votes -
It's called artificial intelligence—but what *is* intelligence?
4 votes -
Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable?
5 votes -
Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut
4 votes -
The need for software testing: Neil Ferguson's unstable epidemiologic model
10 votes -
The secrets behind the runaway success of Apple’s AirPods
14 votes -
The workplace-surveillance technology boom
4 votes -
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017
33 votes -
Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group
6 votes -
Welcome to the age of privacy nihilism
13 votes -
Internet giants to staff: Plan to work from home for the year
9 votes -
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it
11 votes -
The Russian doll of Putin's internet clampdown
12 votes