Exploiting third-party sellers, manipulating search results, hosting fake reviews. Now lawmakers and the FTC are paying attention

Revolt is a promising free and open-source choice to replace Discord. Here, we take a look at what it offers along with its initial impressions.

Employees want to be heard. Does the company want to listen?

For the longest time, the App Store did not allow users to rate or review Apple’s built-in iPhone and iPad apps, like Mail, Music, News, Stocks and Calculator. However, seemingly since the release of iOS 15 earlier this month, Apple has now lifted that restriction. It is now open season for App Store feedback on […]

Documentaries and the Art of Manipulation

It could have a big impact on Apple.

In the age of streaming, public libraries offer small-scale alternatives for local archiving.

Firefox can now set itself as default in just one click.

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An easy-to-use iOS shortcut lets non-technical users bombard the site, according to Motherboard's tests.

The comfort offered by conspiracy is more visceral than that offered by political affiliation. Conspiracy is politics heightened.

Poorly resourced state governments are no match for the lobbying firepower of Apple, the most valuable company in the world.

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Steve Jobs stepped down ten years ago today.

A roundtable on addressing the structural breakdown of media

Rural adults are less likely than suburban adults to have home broadband and less likely than urban adults to own a smartphone, tablet or computer.

Article originally published in Issue 4 of Rupture, Ireland’s eco-socialist quarterly, buy the print issue:

Apple’s tools for flagging child pornography and identifying explicit photos in kids’ messages caused backlash and confusion. In an exclusive interview, Apple s

And they own everything about the show.

Hindsight is the enemy of nostalgia. At 27, I'm probably at the absolutely lower limit of people who actually remember 9/11. To even say I "remember" it using the term loosely. I don't remember any…

Platforms offering to connect people for paid friendship have been on the rise during the pandemic – but some worry the service is being used for the wrong reasons.

"Defund the police"? Not a concern at the national sheriffs' conference, where (sometimes questionable) commerce reigned.

Bridging the wide gap between civilians and the armed forces is the best way to prevent future unwinnable wars.

‎Learn about The Home of Queer Streaming on App Store.

Joy and pain, harmony and discord, organization and chaos—there’s no single way to define Black Twitter’s complex, ongoing legacy.

The trans activist singer-songwriter has released “Back Row” from the record

The "indispensable nation" is still spreading authoritarianism around the world.

The cynical side of my brain is convinced that Ireland is a country based on waves – be they of COVID, careerist coalition partners, or emigration. It sometimes feels as if we’re stuck having the same few conversations every five months or years, running into depressingly similar problems without any real conclusion. I guess this […]

Countless websites, including major news outlets, were offline after an outage at Fastly, a cloud computing provider.