How Chinese Netizens Swamped China’s Internet Controls
The tragedy came as frustrations with zero-Covid policies were already starting to spike. Violent confrontations had broken out between workers and security at a Foxconn plant in...
Why the World Fell for FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried
Back in April I paid $12 to “attend” a virtual event with 30-year-old crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried. Around 45 other people registered for the Zoom, which...
We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion
Think of how devastating it was to the anti-vax influencers Alex Berenson and Robert Malone to be kicked off Twitter. They happened to be grifters. But...
Max Levchin’s War on Credit Cards
Max Levchin isn’t anti-credit, he really wants you to know. He’s anti-credit card. There’s a big difference. He will talk about credit cards endlessly, and he’ll skillfully...
San Francisco’s Killer Police Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable
One effect of AB 481 is to add local oversight to hardware like the kind obtained through a US Department of Defense program that sends billions of...
Electric Vehicles Cut US Gas Consumption by a Measly 0.54%
Electric vehicles have never been more popular. Just about every automaker is in the midst of an electrification effort, spurred on by impending government regulations around...
How to Make the Most of In-Person Conferences
“I’ve lost my social skills!” I texted to a friend while en route to my first in-person conference in four years. The workshop itself wasn’t new—I’d been...
Apple Won’t Let Staff Work Remotely to Escape Texas Abortion Limits
Rebecca was getting ready to start her work day at Apple this June when she heard that the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade. The decision...
Layoffs Have Gutted Twitter’s Child Safety Team
Removing child exploitation is “priority #1”, Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk declared last week. But, at the same time, following widespread layoffs and resignations,...
The US Congress Is Starting to Question This Whole Crypto Thing
“I think that a lot of members of Congress have assumed that the digital asset industry could be on the back burner because it’s immature,” Lummis...