In a country where young people who have grown up in conflict face mass unemployment and no support, drugs gangs have swept into the vacuum. From the capital to the southern city of Basra, Bel Trew finds increasing numbers of addicts – and a system that’s…

How it started / how it’s going. Since I exposed this scam yesterday, its ratings have dropped dramatically. What happened? (thread)

Jeff Hawkins gets full credit for getting me first interested in the idea that neuroscience might lead to artificial general intelligence—an idea whi…

Children are afraid to challenge the repressive ideology that rules our school. That’s why I am.

A study raises questions as to why Facebook did not stop the spread of misinformation in the 2020 election run-up

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Linus says that GPL V3 is a neat licence but it violates everything that V2 stood for.

How an upstart fast food became essential dining in the home of haute cuisine.

At Vivaldi, we stand up for the privacy rights of our users. We do not approve of Google’s new FLoC technology. It creates privacy risks for users on the web.

A security researcher found a “critical” bug in Valve’s game engine that powers the popular online game. And the company has been slow to fix it.

Microsoft’s hardware legacy stretches back more than four decades to the early days of personal computing. As Windows built and inspired new computing experiences, new Microsoft hardware accessories helped people interact with them. At this interse

Can we get content moderation to work, or is it as much of a dead end as virus scanning? Do we need to change the whole model of social instead?

A letter from Wix’s CEO, Avishai Abrahami, to Matt Mullenweg.

The details of the blackout at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility are scattered — but intriguing.

As the world stands today, the future of transaction privacy does not look great. The existing landscape is dominated by traditional credit companies, who over the past decade have been steadily pushing their networks for increased access to user data. They…

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