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And everyone else horrible in tech.

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Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was.I'm still pissed about the bait and switch they pulled by telling me I'd be working on Chrome, then putting me on this god forsaken piece of shit on day one.— Morgan (@morganknutson) October 9, 2018

Retail and Alexa are just the start of the path toward total domination

Amid the company’s spate of scandals, employees are reportedly feeling fearful and musing about new leadership.

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Google and Microsoft have added warnings to their "risk factors" for investors about potential legal and ethical problems from their artificial intelligence projects.

How to cover all your bases before leaving the site for good

Programming requires much more than the cut and dry language taught in children’s books.

The US, UK and Australia are taking on Facebook in a bid to undermine the only method that protects our personal information, says US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden

A story about a smart coffee machine that was used to contaminate the computer network of a European petrochemical factory with ransomware hit the headlines last year. This incident isn’t one of a kind, though. We are witnessing an increase in hacker attacks involving home appliances, robotic devices, drones and other IoT entities used in cities, enterprises, and offices. A few known examples of things going out of hand include the following:

Some of your most sensitive data sit on the cloud, on the servers of Internet service providers. Zero-access encryption gives you control over your data online.

The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work and when will it be here?

Researchers say NSO's use of real data "violated the privacy" of thousands of unwitting people.

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A year ago, Benjamin “Mako” Hill gave a groundbreaking lecture explaining how Big Tech companies had managed to monopolize all the benefits of free software licenses, using a combinatio…

Big technological shifts have always empowered reformers. They have also empowered bigots, hucksters, and propagandists.

Once a year, Linux's top developers meet at Linux Plumbers and the Kernel Summit to hash out problems and concerns with Linux development. Here's what happens.

A more maintainable, easier to share version of the infamous http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html - unmaintainable-code/README.md at master · Droogans/unmaintainable-code

From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life American communities.

A new study casts doubt on the most prominent theories about extremism-by-algorithm.

A new study suggests what we’ve suspected for years is right: YouTube is a pipeline for extremism and hate. How do we know that? More than 330,000 videos on nearly 350 YouTube channels were analyzed and manually classified according to a system designed by the Anti-Defamation League. They were labeled as either media (or what…

In a new report, Penn State political scientists say that it's not the recommendation engine, but the communities that form around right-wing content.

It’s unlikely that you’ll be watching kitten videos one day and believing in QAnon the next.

The social media platforms that hold and shape our attention need to be governed in the public interest.

US lawmakers keep warning about the popular app. But until they can explain what makes it uniquely dangerous, it’s difficult to tailor a resolution.

QAnonAnonymous did this with TikTok - created a new account and started fresh. Took like... three days of liking alternative medicine/new-age/spiritualism content before they started getting recommended QAnon. P.S. - for anyone not familiar, QAA is not a QAnon-positive podcast. They talk about the stuff QANON does/believes. Timeline shifting, manifestation, secret codes and escaping the matrix. Gen Z is entertaining all kinds of new ideas on "spiritual" or "new age" TikTok. Liv creates a fresh account, feeds it a single