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Is this the new cyber normal?
A week of cyber incidents one after another – is this what every week is going to look like and what can we do about it?
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Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens
Our research reveals how the publisher of hit games including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush moved €5bn to companies in Bermuda and Barbados between 2013-2017.
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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
Trying to obfuscate the web is a bad, pointless idea
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We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised the rewards
The public sector is often seen as sclerotic and conservative in contrast with a dynamic and innovative private sector. This assumption lies at the basis of much of the outsourcing of public services to the private sector. In this interview and her new book, Mariana Mazzucato argues against this assessment and in…
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Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology
This essay is telescopic . It can shrink or expand, depending on how much attention you are willing to give. This is the original version (3344 words). Show other sizes .
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Meta in Myanmar, Part III. The Inside View
Whistleblower disclosures and investigative reporting have revealed a lot about what was happening—and what was known—inside Meta during the lead-up to the genocide in Myanmar, including a connection to a global wave of fake-page networks devoted to manipulation and political misinformation.
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If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted: Hey Jeff, Hope you and your family are doing well. Just jogging
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What Android is
What happened was, for our recent South American tour I wanted an Android architecture overview graphic. I ran across, among the Android SDK documentation, a page entitled What is Android? , and it’s perfectly OK. Except for, I really disliked the picture — on purely aesthetic grounds, just not my kind of lettering…
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Aaron Swartz on illness and depression
I’m sorry I haven’t been keeping up with Bubble City. I’ve spent a lot of the last few weeks lying in bed and drinking fluids. (With occasional breaks to play Rock Band, much to the annoyance of my neighbors.) Once again, I’ve been sick — this time, with four different illnesses.
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The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015)
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.
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Stop Reading News (2013)
Discover why constant news consumption makes us less informed and how to break free from information overload to think more clearly.
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The WFH future is destroying bosses' brains (2021)
Yesterday, Silicon Valley Analyst Jeremiah Owyang vaguely reported that executives are scared of their employees “working part-time (but paid full salary)” and “even working on side hustle startups, while on a full-time salary,” a truly terrifying prospect that has chilled me to the bone.
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Ajit Pai is right
Any regulation, including those around net neutrality, should be put to a cost-benefit analysis. In this case regulation advocates come up short.
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The future of my games on Apple and what this means for art games
An update for those of you that can't run my games anymore on OSX because of Catalina. I'm so sorry about this… I'll probably write a post about this, breaking it all down for you, but the situation is as follows. (from my point of view, and own experiences with Apple) [thread] pic.twitter.com/PY0y3o9gNF
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How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment
In 1992, a woman sued McDonald's because her coffee was too hot. It's considered a prime example of a greedy lawsuit. But the truth is much more complicated.
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Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis
Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis.