A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US
At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs. Tweets: @alexismadrigal , @armstrongdr...
Signal's new feature that allows users to store certain data on their servers for recovery purposes has some security experts threatening to stop using the app
The popular encrypted app is now going to store your contacts in the cloud. Experts are worried this compromises users' privacy. Tweets: @4thanon , @ahmed , @abortu , @drfranksauer , @lorenzofb , and...
Apple's App Store brings in users because it is the only choice, not because it offers some kind of exceptional distribution and marketing to developers
Today, Apple's stance seems … Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1335: Tiktokers v Trump, Apple and ARM and the App Store, the mystery of Tether's growth … Stuart Dredge / Music Ally : More c...
A look at OKash, a popular microcredit app in Kenya that threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when they fall behind on loan payments
Okash, a popular fintech app in Kenya and Nigeria, threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when you fall behind on your loan payments. Tweets: @ahmed , @lalehkhalili , @ftrain , @anup...
EFF's first staff lawyer reflects on how the debate around online speech has evolved and where he thinks the early internet activists got things right and wrong
I've fought for a free internet for 30 years. Here's where I think we went wrong, and right. Tweets: @codinghorror , @jangles , @ahmed , @mpawlo , @sfmnemonic , @blakereid , @harrisonstephen , and @p...
Inside “Instabeach”, Instagram's annual invite-only party in Malibu for 500 of its top creators, which has become a who's who of young Hollywood
At 3:30 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, hundreds of Instagram influencers descended on Gladstones Malibu, an old-timey seafood restaurant … Tweets: @jayshams , @jeremysliew , @taylorlorenz , @ahmed , and @s...
Bitcoin and ICOs are in 1999-like bubble; they'll crash but will produce the next Google and Facebook and all the great and scary things the internet gave us
The true believers won't stop until they've remade the world. Some of it will be thrilling. Some of it will keep us up at night. Tweets: @waldojaquith , @ahmed , @ameliasbrain , @riskreversal , @fin...
Journalist lost his job as a WSJ foreign correspondent after what was likely a state sponsored hack that led to an investigation of conduct with his sources
Jay Solomon / Columbia Journalism Review : Tweets: @cjr , @nxthompson , @cjr , @nedprice , and @ahmed Tweets: @cjr : “The phone call set off a brutal 48 hours in which I eventually lost my job.” http...