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Pro-life is not just opposing abortion, Vatican says after U.S. ruling
Anti-abortion activists should be concerned with other issues that can threaten life, such as easy access to guns, poverty and rising maternity mortality rates, the Vatican's editorial director said on Saturday.
How Creators Get Paid Online
Navigating the modern internet as a creative
Apple is finally testing more robust SMS spam filters for iOS
What comes next.
My Inevitable(?) Amazon Tech Ebook Exit
Warning: publishing business book neepery ahead, as I try to figure out a problem. It includes a bunch of tedious ground-laying. I also round many prices to the nearest dollar. I am specifically ta…
Taylor Swift on People Who Call Her “Calculating”
In our November cover story, Taylor Swift talks to Chuck Klosterman about whether or not she really hates Katy Perry
Facebook looks ready to divorce the news industry, and I doubt couples counseling will help
Out of every 1,000 times someone sees a post on Facebook, how many of them include a link to a news site? Four. No wonder Facebook doesn't want to write publishers big checks anymore.
Apple’s kind of a bank now
Apple Financing is handling the new Pay Later service.
The ugly economics behind Apple’s new Pay Later system
Apple’s BNPL service is at odds with the brand’s image.
The Almighty Gun | Rafia Zakaria
Worshipping at the altar of gun rights has turned the U.S. into a society that tolerates episodic rituals of child sacrifice.
How Ukraine’s wide use of cryptocurrency is playing out during the war
Michael Chobanian, the president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine, wants to put the Ukrainian government on the blockchain.
The principles
The GDPR sets out seven key principles. These principles should lie at the heart of your approach to processing personal data.
An Exciting Leap Forward for Glitch
From idea to code in seconds, build and learn alongside the most creative coders on the Web
The videos that don’t work on YouTube and the future of the creator business with Nebula CEO Dave Wiskus
Dave Wiskus is on a mission to empower creators.
How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell
An inside look at building the iPod, iPhone, and Nest
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
A former Foxconn executive tries to explain what went wrong in Wisconsin
How a Trump-endorsed plan overpromised and underdelivered
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.
Blogging in Service of Publics
Admiring The Government Digital Service in the UK
What Elon Musk’s Twitter ‘free speech’ promises miss
Musk proposed a buyout of the social platform yesterday.
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.
Elon Musk joins the Twitter board
Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power
Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents - bellingcat
The Yandex.Food leak implicates thousands of Russian users, including military personnel
Data leak from Russian delivery app shows dining habits of the secret police
The Yandex Food leak exposed the data of 58,000 users.
The lesson Facebook won't learn
In a reckless, secret campaign against TikTok, the company's paranoia leads to another self-inflicted wound
Apple and Meta shared data with hackers pretending to be law enforcement officials
Bad actors contacted the platforms with emergency data requests.
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 ...