Many Revolutions | Jamie Lauren Keiles
Spotify to buy podcast ad company Megaphone for $235 million
Spotify said it has agreed to acquire Megaphone, which offers technology for podcast publishers and advertisers seeking targeted slots on podcasts.
FEDI-WATCH demo | bonkerfield
running decentralized detoxify monitoring for Mastodon
Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA
Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled down on accusations against the developer behind the well-liked third-party […]
Reddit won’t budge on the API changes that are shutting down apps like Apollo
Users have been protesting the changes for days.
Twitter says source code was leaked on GitHub, now it’s trying to find the culprit
An ex-employee is thought to be to blame.
Inside Elon’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter
Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego
Can Elon Musk turn Twitter into an “everything app”?
“The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk”
So long, and thanks for all the fail whales
A requiem for a meme.
Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Europe Prepares to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
The Digital Markets Act will force Big Tech platforms to break open their walled gardens in 2023, says the EU’s new ambassador to Silicon Valley.
Elon bails on Twitter
This deal was always headed to court. What happens next?
The principles
The GDPR sets out seven key principles. These principles should lie at the heart of your approach to processing personal data.
Spotify loses another top podcast exec
The company has lost three high-profile podcast leaders in the past month.
Government surveillance, Elon Musk, and free speech, with EFF executive director Cindy Cohn
Running headfirst into fights for users’ rights on the internet.
Elon Musk buys Twitter
What employees are saying. PLUS: Musk's key decisions
Buying Twitter would give Elon Musk an enormous amount of power
If he pulls this off, Elon Musk will basically become The Architect from 'The Matrix.'
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms – TechCrunch
The landmark web scraping case was bounced back to the Ninth Circuit by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Race to Save Posts That May Prove Russian War Crimes
Painstaking new techniques for archiving social media posts could provide crucial evidence in future prosecutions.
Spam Botnets – Darknet Diaries
This episode tells the stories of some of the worlds biggest spamming botnets. We'll talk about the botnets Rustock, Waledac, and Cutwail. We'll discover who was behind them, what their objectives ...
SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research
Subscription and open access journals from SAGE Publishing, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
Should the National Register of Historic Places Apply to Websites?
Corporate motivation isn’t enough when it comes to digital preservation. Here’s a case for creating a National Register of Historic Places for websites.
The internet is splitting apart. The Internet Archive wants to save it all forever.
The Internet Archive has grand ambitions for preserving the internet. But in order to do that, Big Tech has to stay out of the way.
What Went Wrong at Gimlet? Inside the ‘Reply All’ Reckoning
Why Large Tech Companies Always Burn Power Users
Pondering why, in the internet era, it has become so common for big tech companies to treat their power users like dirt. (Yes, this is about Google Reader.)
Surfin’ USA | Vincent Bevins
The origins of the internet lie in American imperialism, as do the rules that still govern it.