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Tim O'Reilly: The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy Article 9010 words, published Feb 5 2019 17 votes
Goodbye Big Five: Kashmir Hill tried to block each of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from her life for a week. To end the experiment, she tried to block all five at once. privacy amazon facebook google microsoft apple Article 4949 words 19 votes
Thieves of experience: How Google and Facebook corrupted capitalism privacy social media google facebook Article 3968 words 6 votes
“The Linux of social media” - How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging internet Article 3390 words 8 votes
Tesla’s driver fatality rate is more than triple that of luxury cars (and likely even higher) Article 3614 words, published Jul 23 2018 12 votes
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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 internet Article 5226 words 9 votes
YouTube breeds sociopaths and monsters. Not through audience’s demands but how the platform itself is designed. social media Article 6946 words, published Jan 22 2018 24 votes
Prime and punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace amazon.marketplace Article 6640 words 10 votes
Back from the edge: It’s easy to blame online rhetoric for violence. The reality is much harder social media internet Article 3931 words 7 votes
Delay, deny and deflect: How Facebook’s leaders fought through crisis facebook privacy social media Article 5353 words 16 votes
What WhatsApp’s upcoming monetisation means for the company and its 1.5 billion users facebook Article 4195 words 16 votes
Personal Panopticons - A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it privacy social media Link 12 votes
Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers Article 3939 words 15 votes
Pentagon working on tech to identify protestors with bad/non-existent opsec social media Article 4890 words 19 votes
Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet social media Article 7779 words, published Mar 12 2018 38 votes
It started as an online gaming prank. Then it turned deadly - the story of the "swatting" that killed Andrew Finch Article 7828 words 18 votes
Apps installed on millions of Android phones tracked user behavior to execute a multimillion dollar ad fraud scheme android Article 6055 words 28 votes
New technology favors tyranny. Yuval Noah Harrari on artificial intelligence, democracy, and the bigger picture Article 4581 words 6 votes
Raised by YouTube - The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected social media Article 5510 words 11 votes
The right to bear arms (and say shocking stuff on Facebook) social media facebook Article 6618 words 8 votes
Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy? facebook social media Article 14 330 words 31 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 privacy Article 3731 words 8 votes
What happens when your bomb-defusing robot becomes a weapon Article 3282 words, published Apr 26 2018 12 votes
The impossible job: Inside Facebook’s struggle to moderate two billion people social media facebook Article 9455 words 14 votes
There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, US Senator Ron Wyden says internet social media Article 3069 words 12 votes
How an international hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 million Article 6934 words 12 votes
The untold story of NotPetya, the most devastating cyberattack in history security.cyber Article 6546 words 11 votes
Can the manufacturer of Tasers provide the answer to police abuse of force? Article 7747 words 10 votes