Mr. Mossberg has spent decades chronicling the privacy implications of Facebook’s policies. On Monday, he opted out.

The ability to ruin a stranger’s life is a feature, not a bug of consumer rating systems

by Jean-Louis Gassée

One of the biggest generational schisms on the internet today (besides your level of gif game) is your connection to the idea of the “free and open web.” Anyone in their mid-20s or younger does not remember an internet not utterly dominated by today’s giant…

The bad year for traders at Mike Novogratz’s cryptocurrency merchant bank got even worse in the third quarter -- and that was before the market fell out of bed this month.

“I think hell’s a fable,” the famous professor proclaimed—a surprising declaration not only because it was made in the late sixteenth century, when very few people would have dared to say such a thing, but also because he was at that moment in conversation…

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Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe that sits in its own “supra-kingdom” of life foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered by new sequencing…

Analysis: Microsoft adopting Chromium puts the Web in a perilous place.

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More than 2,000 miners in Appalachia are dying from an advanced stage of black lung. NPR and Frontline have found the government had multiple warnings and opportunities to protect them, but didn't.

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