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How to Quit Google, According to a Privacy Expert
Some companies are easy to quit. If I decide I don’t like Coca-Cola anymore I can simply stop drinking Coke. Sure, the company makes more than just Coke, so I would need to do some research to figure out which products they do and don’t make, but it’s theoretically possible. Quitting Google isn’t like that.…
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The ‘BeFake’ App Is the Opposite of BeReal
Introducing BeFake, which spits in the face of BeReal’s earnestness and makes Instagram look wholly organic.
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When Using Open-Source Information Online Becomes Foreign Interference
Two weeks ago, 55-year-old Sydney businessman Alexander Csergo was arrested on charges of “recklessly” engaging in foreign interference. Csergo’s case reads like a spy novel. He allegedly met two Chinese people he knew as “Ken” and “Evelyn” in empty cafes in Shanghai, taking cash and agreeing to write reports for them about Australian defence, economic…
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The Internet Is Broke, so How Do We Fix It?
If the debate about Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter tells us anything, it’s that people – including those in governments – don’t understand how the World Wide Web works. We know that the algorithms Twitter uses to recommend content can guide people to develop more extreme views, but what is considered extreme has changed since…