Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots
it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impulses of the digital ...
How FRED, a data tool the St. Louis Federal Reserve created in 1991, recently gained a major following, from <400K website users in 2009 to nearly 15M in 2023
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b... Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper.com : FRED is the exceptionally rare government institution where America beats most of the rest of the world hands down www.nytimes.com/2024...
Twitter bans Wired's Dell Cameron for covering that anti-trans activist Matt Walsh's account was hacked; Wired denies breaking Twitter's hacked materials policy
lob insults at Ben Shapiro CT Jones / Rolling Stone : He Reported on a Twitter Hack. Musk's Free Speech Haven Kicked Him Out Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast : Journalist Banned From Twitter After Re...
Q&A with crypto skeptic Molly White, who runs Web3 Is Going Just Great, on Web3's evolving problems and cultural draw, blockchain privacy issues, and more
Welcome to Web3 — What Is Web3? — Why Blockchain's Ethical Stakes Are So High Web3 Will Run on Cryptocurrency What a DAO Can — and Can't — Do Tweets: @molly0xfff , @theburningmonk , @morganricks1 ...
A profile of Peter Thiel, who plans to leave Meta's board to focus on politics, funding far-right MAGA candidates who peddle conspiracies and deny Biden won
NYT @rmac18 and @llerer 1st reported about his involvement yesterday — More details about the app on @axios: https://www.axios.com/... @nycsouthpaw : NYT profiles Peter Thiel, the billionaire aparthei...
Critics and competitors argue that Google's massive web index, far surpassing its rivals in size, should be the focus of antitrust scrutiny
As regulators seek ways to curb the company's power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billion of web pages — behind its search engine. Tweets: @nkulw , @techwontsaveus , @dmccabe , ...
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are making the same mistakes big news outlets made decades ago, trying to placate hyperpartisan critics who are “working the refs”
The new referees in American politics are Facebook, Google and Twitter, and they would be wise to pay attention to lessons the old media tried to learn. Tweets: @rottenindenmark , @ryanlcooper , @mark...
As US COVID-19 cases surge, public health officials are battling broken, fragmented data systems, some relying on fax, that are seriously impeding progress
Before public health officials can manage the pandemic, they must deal with a broken data system that sends incomplete results in formats they can't easily use. Tweets: @sarahkliff , @bymikebaker , @l...
The imaginary “race” to 5G has been foisted on us by telecom giants which want something new to sell at high prices, instead of competing to improve service
No one seems to have a good answer to this question — I have a dumb question that no one seems capable of answering directly: Why is 5G a race? Tweets: @robertwrighter , @imhassan , @jaspervdj , @sm...
Profile of ComplaintsBureau.com owner Scott Breitenstein, who decided to ban revenge porn on his site after interviews for this piece
At Home with a Revenge Porn Mogul — Scott Breitenstein has been called an “internet terrorist,” “the worst man on the internet,” and worse. Tweets: @ryanlcooper , @emmaroller , @thisisfusion , @case...