“Gamification doesn’t just give us the digital scaffolding to fulfill the promise of democracy. It can help us build ties and trust in one another.” Many choose to gamify parts of their lives to make […]

Former Twitter security chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday alleging widespread security deficiencies at the social media platform. During a two-and-a-half hour hearing, Zatko alleged Twitter lacked a framework to […]

With abortion set to be criminalized in more than half the US, encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience. A number of course-altering US Supreme Court decisions last month—including the reversal of […]

The Assange persecution is the greatest threat to Western press freedoms in years. It is also a shining monument to the fraud of American and British self-depictions. This decision is unsurprising — it has been […]

“They proved and showed that a cybercrime group can do country extortion.” Even among Conti’s long rap sheet of more than 1,000 ransomware attacks, those against Costa Rica stand out. They mark one of the […]

A new recruiting video for the US Army psychological operations career field gives off a slightly creepy, surreal vibe. Given the number of references in the video to Russia and China, it’s also hard not […]

The small Central American nation of Costa Rica is currently battling high-tech hackers who are threatening to overthrow the government if it doesn’t pay them $20 million. Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves took office on […]

The US House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee will look to shed some light on UFOs with an open hearing on Tuesday, May 17. Indiana Rep. Andre Carson will chair the hearing. “Congress hasn’t […]

The end of Roe v. Wade should be understood in the context of America’s vast and underregulated surveillance economy, and the reliance of law enforcement on it. It’s true that even if Roe is overturned, […]

Silicon Valley firms are about to be at the center of the storm around abortion access and reproductive rights. They need to prepare. The digital revolution came of age when legal abortion was the default. […]

When the U.S. security state announces that Big Tech’s centralized censorship power must be preserved, we should ask what this reveals about whom this regime serves. A group of former intelligence and national security officials […]

Both Musk and those who fear him position themselves as the defenders of democracy. In reality, the episode reveals how vacuous the term has become. Those fretting about the world’s wealthiest man gaining control over […]

Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces. For the past 15 years, police forces searching for criminals in Europe have been […]

Increasingly isolated, creators are moving to Russian platform alternatives like VK, Yandex Zen, and RuTube. As waves of wartime sanctions by foreign governments and private companies hit Russia, the country’s creator economy is in flux. […]

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is having far-reaching consequences for companies like Yandex that had international ambitions. Yandex started working on AV technology in 2016, demonstrating its first successful test on the snowy streets of […]

China is pouring trillions into the developing world. It is, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei says, an audacious power grab. The initiative, which has been likened to the Silk Road trade routes of imperial […]

Unless the U.S. and its allies mobilize to save it, the second great age of globalization is coming to a catastrophic close. A book published in 1919 on “The Economic Consequences of the Peace” isn’t […]

“It’s evident that Russia has long been preparing a cut off from the global internet, and its Ukraine invasion is a turning point.” Russia is forcing Google to delist URLs associated with virtual private networks, […]

Since the invasion of Ukraine began, there have been rumors that Russia could decide to disconnect its citizens from the rest of the internet. On Monday, messages were leaked from the vice secretary of Digital […]

Wang Huning, a former academic, is a household name in China, and has the ear of the most powerful Chinese ruler since Mao Zedong As China marches toward what Xi Jinping calls “the great rejuvenation,” […]

From Instagram to Paypal, Russia’s internet is being dismantled as a digital iron curtain descends. On February 24 in Moscow, when social media was full of the news that Russia had broken its promise and […]

The idea of using popular modules as “protestware” to deploy destructive payloads runs the risk of undermining trust in open-source software. “Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian developers are modifying their public software to trigger malware or pro-Ukraine […]

The Russian App Store has lost 6,982 mobile apps since the start of the Ukraine invasion, as numerous companies have now pulled their apps and games from Apple’s iPhone and iPad App Stores. While Apple […]

Some Republican lawmakers are asking why a Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” was allowed to shorten his stay. A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Aleksei Burkov admitted to running CardPlanet, […]

Big tech amplifies efforts to escalate a conflict with a nuclear opponent in order to increase its profitability, what could go wrong? Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call […]

John Robb, author of Brave New War, joins Jack to discuss the nature of the Open Source Network war which has been unleashed as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. How did we […]

The world, both physical and digital, finds itself in unprecedented times as the conflict in Ukraine rages. Corporate giants such as Meta, Google and Apple, who have always framed themselves as neutral tech firms, are […]

Most people you meet in everyday life are decent and normal. Even nice. But hit Twitter or watch the news, and you’d think we were all nuts and nasty. The rising power and prominence of […]

It is being claimed that Russia has decided to cut its reliance on external internet. This means that companies will be required to get a “.ru” domain beginning March 11. According to a Reuters article […]

Adults will have to hand over credit card or passport details before they can access social media sites, the British government threatened this morning. Internet use age verification – first floated and then abandoned via […]