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TikTok Was Designed for War (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 03/02/2022 - 06:35Australia's Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked—Sort Of (Wired)
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Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/24/2022 - 06:35Firefox is flatlining. What it does next is crucial for the future of the web. (Wired)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 02/17/2022 - 11:42The Best Way to Learn Online? Be a Lurker (Wired)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 02/16/2022 - 10:42How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 02/09/2022 - 06:34American Spy Agencies Are Struggling in the Age of Data (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 02/06/2022 - 10:47Apple’s Private Relay Roils Telecom Companies Around the World (Wired)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 01/12/2022 - 12:16Smartphones Are a New Tax on the Poor
Science fiction author William Gibson famously said that the future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed. Smartphones and on-the-go internet access have made many of our working lives more efficient and flexible. But the requirement for constant connectivity isn’t only a fact of white-collar work—it has spread to workers up and down the income ladder. And while the requirement has spread, the resources that workers need to maintain it are not evenly distributed. More than a quarter of low-income Americans depend solely on their phones for internet access.