Back in 2022, Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” to describe a cycle that has played out again and again in the online economy. Entrepreneurs start off making high-minded promises to get new users to try their platforms. But once users, vendors, and advertisers have been locked in—by network effects, insurmountable collective action problems, high switching costs—the […]| Henry Farrell
"Inside the mind of the most prolific anti-5G arsonist in the world—and the incoherent, very online political violence of our era."| Longreads
Phone numbers are a goldmine for SIM swappers. A researcher found how to get this precious piece of information from any Google account.| 404 Media
The perception of CPON technology has evolved from if to when and how, with momentum accelerating throughout the broadband industry.| CableLabs
Living at the cutting edge of technology in the early ’90s required either a magical token forged of copper and silver, or the capacity to memorize a ridiculously long string of numbers. Eith…| John Battelle's Search Blog
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.| 404 Media
The tech giants have overthrown capitalism. That’s the argument of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who became famous trying to defend debt-laden Greece from its German creditors. Varoufakis has never quite regained the notoriety of 2015. But he has remained a prominent left-wing voice. After a failed campaign for a seat in the European […]| Yanis Varoufakis