When Google employees discovered last August to their horror that the company had been secretly working on a censored search engine ("Project Dragonfly) for use in China, the company assured… Read the rest of the article: Leak shows Google lied when it claimed it wasn't near launching its censored Chinese search tool
New York City's amazing McNally Jackson Books is closing its flagship bookstore on Prince Street in Nolita; the store is a neighborhood fixture and a hub of literary events (I've… Read the rest of the article: Aw, shit: New York's McNally Jackson Books is closing its Nolita store
Perpetual Guardian is a 250-person New Zealand investment company specialized in trusts, wills and estate planning; this March and April, the company experimented with a four-day work-week, and based on… Read the rest of the article: Company tries four-day work-week, discovers only upsides
Bernie Sanders — who seems to have kicked off a 2020 presidential bid — writes about the terrifying global parallels to Trumpism, from Japan to the Philippines to Hungary to… Read the rest of the article: Bernie Sanders on fighting global authoritarianism
New York is a great city that has been hollowed out by real-estate speculation, where the conversion of housing to safe-deposit boxes in the sky has pushed out the city's… Read the rest of the article: New York's luxury real-estate market is crashing
Since the Thatcher years, the UK has built itself into a powerhouse money-launderer, selling financial secrecy to the world's most corrupt and vicious looters; but with a Labour victory looking… Read the rest of the article: Britain's Corbyn-panicked oligarchs are shifting money offshore
Today, the EU held a routine vote on regulations for self-driving cars, when something decidedly out of the ordinary happened…
America has a gun problem: the proliferation of guns in American homes has led to a largely silent epidemic of accidental shootings, intimate partner murders, and suicides.
Fill in this form and Vote Save America will tell you whether you are (still) registered to vote, a vital step in an age of rampant, illegal voter suppression.
When Google's engineering staff staged an uprising over the company's "Project Maven" to supply AI tools for the Pentagon's secretive drone-based killing program, many observed that the project was just… Read the rest of the article: Victory! Google will not bid on $10B Pentagon cloud computing contract
Warren Ellis's closing keynote from the Thought Bubble festival in Leeds is distilled Ellis: witty and wordsmithed, insightful and thoughtful, futuristic and deeply contemporary.
Facebook's newest product is "Portal," a home camera intended to follow you from room to room while you videoconference.
When Facebook hired Joel Kaplan to serve as Vice President for US Public Policy, who could have predicted that he would turn out to be a far-right partisan who would… Read the rest of the article: Facebook's top lobbyist threw Kavanaugh a victory celebration in his home
A cop working for the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (the French national domestic surveillance agency) used the darknet marketplace Black Hand to sell access to France's prodigious national… Read the rest of the article: French spy used darknet to sell access to national mass-surveillance databases
I'm coming to Chicago for this week's installment of the Censorship and Information Control During Information Revolutions seminar series, and while I'm in town, I'm appearing at Volumes Book Cafe… Read the rest of the article: Chicago! I'm speaking at Volumes Book Cafe on Thursday!
There was a time when you could get the smartest people at Google to do the stupidest things you could imagine by getting Yahoo to do them first; thankfully that… Read the rest of the article: RIP, Google+: long ailing and finished off by a security bug
In Chesapeake, VA, trick-or-treaters over 12 face fines of $25-100 and up to six months in jail (under-12s who trick-or-treat after 8PM face fines of $10-100 and up to 30… Read the rest of the article: Virginia towns' trick-or-treat laws threaten over-12s with jail-time
The latest data from Levada, an independent Russian pollster, finds that support for all Russian political figures, including Vladimir Putin, has plunged, following a shift in the pension system that… Read the rest of the article: Russians' support for Putin drops off a cliff after pension cuts
Tech workers are in demand: companies find it easier to raise cash than to hire engineers; this gives workers enormous bargaining power, and they're using it.
There is no political issue more pressing than the official inaction on climate change. With time running out to avert hundreds of millions of deaths and global migration, food, disease,… Read the rest of the article: Climate change is AWOL in America's political debates
