WIRED
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
20+ min · · Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out. · Shared by 519, including Liliane Ferrari ™, adrianoesch, Gerd Leonhard, Matt Navarra, Bjorn Larsen, Mark Kaigwa, Mathew Ingram, Aamir Raz, Matti Heubner, Mac McCann, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Sinead Doyle, Adam Tinworth, hiten.eth, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Adrienne Fichter, Jeff Atwood, Backchannel, Builtvisible, OM
The New York Times
How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World
· Murdoch and his children have toppled governments on two continents and destabilized the most important democracy on Earth. What do they want? · Shared by 197, including Rich Miner, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Bryan William Jones, John Schwartz, Bjorn Larsen, Matt Willey, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Brad Brooks, Florian Hanke 🍎, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Mathew Ingram, William Gibson, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Fern, luis antónio santos, Liv 😷, Thomas Power, Noely ⚡️🏐, NYTimes Communications
The New York Times
How China Turned a City Into a Prison
3 min · · Children are interrogated. Neighbors become informants. Mosques are monitored. Cameras are everywhere. · Shared by 128, including Josep M. Ganyet, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Richard Deitsch, Luca Like, Dominik Grolimund, anildash.com, Heritage Foundation, luis antónio santos, David Cochrane, Loughlin O'Nolan, Alexia Bonatsos, Florian Hanke 🍎, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Amnesty Schweiz, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Korben
WIRED
Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English
6 min · · Code depends on English—for reasons that are entirely unnecessary at a technical level. · Shared by 102, including Kat, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Backchannel, Florian Hanke 🍎, Kim Schläpfer, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Carl Morris, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Uyên Đỗ, Charles Baldwin
openDemocracy
I was a strong Brexiteer. Now we must swallow our pride and think again
15+ min · · If we are to leave the European Union we want a sensible Brexit. There’s no chance of that just now. · Shared by 67, including Adam Tinworth, Richard Dawkins, Lukas Stickelberger, Ian M Calvert, Azeem Azhar, Thomas Power, Caitlin Moran, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Paul Sturrock, Clemens M. Schuster
Facebook Newsroom
Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook
3 min · · Protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we do. · Shared by 45, including Mark Kaigwa, Ste Davies, Hannes Grassegger, Brian Solis, John Battelle, Markus Maurer, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social
The Economist
Economic growth does not guarantee rising happiness
2 min · · An old paradox lives on · Shared by 33, including Stephan Woodtli, Aamir Raz, Thomas Power, Matthew Bishop, Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්
Insider Business
Facebook asks some new users for email passwords
3 min · · The latest security scandal from Facebook increases the risk of users getting hacked, experts warn. · Shared by 29, including Marsha Collier, Kat, Charles Baldwin, Matt Navarra
The New York Times
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Is Arrested in London
3 min · · Mr. Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in 2012. He faces a British charge of skipping bail and is wanted in the United States on charges of releasing secret documents. · Shared by 21
The Guardian
Climbers brought in to help protect Notre Dame from elements
1 min · · Protective tarpaulins unfurled over fire-ravaged cathedral to prevent rain damage · Shared by 10
Boing Boing
After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn't require filters, top EU Commissioner says "Article 13 requires filters"
3 min · · Shared by 10, including Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
The Times and The Sunday Times
Amazon listens to conversations through Alexa
· Amazon employees are listening to, transcribing and even joking about the private conversations customers have with Alexa on their smart speakers. Hundreds of Amazon workers are listening to... · Shared by 9, including 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
Insider Business
Here's a list of everyone who is boycotting or cutting ties with Brunei after it introduced new laws to punish…
2 min · · Virgin Australia, The London Underground, STA Travel, and Queensland State have all made moves to address ties with Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. · Shared by 7
corriere.it
E Trump invoca i Canadair «Ma sarebbe il disastro definitivo»: ecco perché
· La «bomba d'acqua» distruggerebbe quel che resta. I vigili del fuoco italiani: «Serve un intervento di precisione» · Shared by 6
Insider Business
Facebook employees had unfettered access to hundreds of millions of users' unencrypted passwords for years
1 min · · Another day, another massive privacy scandal at Facebook — this time, around unencrypted passwords. · Shared by 6
Daily Mail Online
Julian Assange 'to be kicked out of the Ecuadorean embassy
6 min · · Julian Assange is set to be kicked out of Ecuador's London embassy and arrested within 'hours or days', WikiLeaks said this morning, as protesters descended on the scene to 'protect' him. · Shared by 5