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Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites
Verizon Media’s search engines promises “unbiased” search results, but serves results clearly favoring the company’s media websites over competitors.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 913 posts.
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The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility
Discover SEO strategies, AI search optimization tips, and digital marketing insights from RankScience. Boost your search rankings and grow your business.
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iOS 13's Music App Sucks
iOS 13’s Music App gets worse as iOS gets better.
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Removing Holocaust Denial Content
We are updating our hate speech policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.
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We can have democracy or we can have Facebook
A conversation with Matt Stoller about the new antitrust case and the real reason you should care about corporate monopolies
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We need young programmers; We need old programmers
The software industry loves young people, but old-timers serve an important purpose, too.
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The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical
Some classic (non-aggregation) monopolization!
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Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
The Web just got a little bit more reliable. Available today, starting with version 1.4 of its desktop browser, Brave has added a 404 detection system, with an automated Wayback Machine lookup process to its desktop browser. By default, it now offers users one-click access to archived versions of Web pages that might…
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Open access to ACM Digital Library during coronavirus pandemic
For the next 3 months, through 6/30/20, ACM is making all work published by ACM in the ACM Digital Library freely accessible.
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Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube
See how we're working to protect kids' privacy on YouTube. Discover our latest updates and initiatives for a safer platform.
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Signs you're following a fake Twitter account
The challenge of dealing with fake accounts that spread disinformation is probably one of the greatest challenges facing the large social media companies. Most methods used to detect fake Twitter a…
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The AMA is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation
The American Medical Association is not a charitable organization. The American Medical Association is not an educational organization. The American Medical Association is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation, designed from the ground up to enrich its executives and serve its own bureaucratic interests…
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We’ve built a towering pile of shite
This a rant, written at midnight, after battling software errors. Set your profanity filters accordingly. I despair over the state of software engineering - specifically, stability. We seem to have lost the understanding that computers are there to do the hard work for us. And I don't think we ever believed in a…
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We've Built Cities We Can't Afford
Kansas City, Missouri, has a serious infrastructure problem. But an emerging conversation is charting a path toward greater strength and financial resilience.
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230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question
Over the past several weeks, Signal traffic has gone through the roof. New users are signing up at unprecedented rates, and we’ve expanded our server capacity faster than we ever anticipated. It means a lot to us that so many people are relying on Signal during this difficult time. When users che...
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SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN in Los Angeles this Friday Jan 24
Learn how the nonprofit community united in 2019 behind a successful campaign organized by NTEN and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership
The public’s right of access to court proceedings is well-established as a legal principle, but it needs constant defending. In part, that’s because private parties keep asking publicly-funded courts to resolve their disputes in secret. As we and others have written before, this problem is...
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Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users
HBO Max is incredible. Not because it is good, but because of how many problems with the media landscape it epitomizes. If you ever had trouble seeing where monopoly, net neutrality, and technology intertwine, well then thanks, I guess, to AT...
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No Recent Automation Revolution
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that for many years the media has been almost screaming that we entering a big automation revolution, with huge associated job losses, due to new AI tech, especially deep learning.
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Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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The Problem with Palm Oil
Useful investigation for those who want to better understand the debates around palm oil production and the symptoms of a much larger problem.
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Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (2016)
Google, the Stupidity Amplifier by Greg Egan
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We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)
Burnout is the inevitable result of our endlessly accelerating pace of life Illustration: Jutta Kuss/Getty Images Author’s Note: I’ve recently partnered with Project DigInThere, an onli…
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How We Institutionalized Incompetence
And so we face the ultimate irony: 'bailing-out-everything' destroys the entire rotten system. You've probably noticed things no longer ...
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