As regular readers know, I have for the last few years been banging on about the importance of the media in influencing public opinion. (It...

After I accuse Cosma Shalizi of waterboarding the Rev. Dr. Thomas Bayes, he responds: >Cosma Shalizi: Cosma Shalizi Waterboards the Rev. Dr. Thomas Bayes: Hoisted from Comments: I am relieved to learn that the true model of the world is always already known…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Monday ruled that Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) LinkedIn unit cannot prevent a startup from accessing public profile data, in a test of how much control a social media site can wield over information its users…

A judge in San Francisco rules LinkedIn cannot block third-party services that scrape users' data.

The world looks upon Germany´s boring election capaign with envy. But that only obscures the many problems of the country. If Germans don´t face them, they will be hit very hard.

China’s censorship system is expanding forbidden topics far beyond politics, in line with President Xi Jinping’s prim, paternalistic vision for the “China dream.”

Writing a simple parser of type-level symbols in PureScript 0.12

Amazon’s first live NFL game was watched by an average of 372,000 viewers on Thursday night, beating Twitter’s figures from last season but still well down on TV.

Apple giving into Russia twice this week on key civil liberties issues proves that the company's CSAM misuse assurances cannot be trusted...

Teknologirådet mener Datatilsynets vurdering vil føre til at flere offentlige aktører kommer til å legge ned sine Facebook-sider.

"Only a person can have rights. A machine cannot," one of the judges wrote.

This is deeply bizarre of @FrancesHaugen - she is arguing that if Facebook willingly surrenders its ability to spy on user content — including on behalf of, say, the Chinese Government — then it cannot protect those users *FROM* the Chinese Government.

U.S. concerns about the risks of fighting a coming war with Russia and China are well-grounded, given it is unprepared to fight even a purely conventional war with them.