What technology is doing to how we work, what we own, who watches us, and what rights we have left. Policy explained plainly. Power examined honestly.
You’ve probably never heard the phrase “killer acquisition,” but there’s a decent chance you’ve used a product that was one, or watched a competitor to your favorite app quietly disappear a year after a much bigger company bought it. A small number of companies now control such a large share of the internet’s core infrastructure…
Here’s a finding that sounds like it shouldn’t be true: when a local newspaper shuts down, the town’s cost of borrowing money for schools, roads, and water systems goes up — not eventually, not indirectly, but measurably, within the actual interest rates municipal bond lenders charge. You don’t need to have ever read that paper…
If you’ve ever tried to read an actual explainer on the EU AI Act, there’s a good chance you gave up somewhere around the third reference to “Annex III” or “conformity assessment procedures.” None of that jargon is actually necessary to understand what this law does. The entire structure rests on one idea simple enough…
There is a file being maintained about you right now. It contains your home address, your previous addresses going back a decade, your approximate income, your political affiliation, your consumer debt level, the names of your relatives, your purchasing habits across dozens of retail categories, your estimated health conditions inferred from pharmacy data, and in…
There’s a version of workplace privacy a lot of people still carry around, dating from before a laptop had a webcam and before “work” meant a device that travels home in a backpack every night. That version assumed a reasonable zone of privacy at your own desk, on your own screen, during a coffee break….
