The internet feeds on its own dying dreams
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I am an object of internet ridicule, ask me anything
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Heat List - Chicago PD automated policing program got this man shot twice
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The nonmachinables
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App Store arguments
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China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media
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EFF Surveillance Self-Defense - Privacy breakdown of mobile phones
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They told their therapists everything. Hackers leaked it all.
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What3Words - The algorithm used to generate its geocodes, and issues with it that result in ambiguous locations being common
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A community of 3D graphics hobbyists are making and selling avatars of real people in order to fulfill their sexual fantasies, and there's little anyone can do to stop them
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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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The battle inside Signal - The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is developing features that would make it more vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are sounding the alarm.
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The coming software apocalypse
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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
14 votes