Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg Respond to Cambridge Analytics Scandaldaringfireball.net Neither response even acknowledges — let alone apologizes for — one of the key aspects of this scandal: that Facebook knew this was a problem in June …
Donald Trump and the Craven Firing of Andrew McCabeThe New Yorker - Jeffrey ToobinIf you wanted to tell the story of an entire Presidency in a single tweet, you could try the one that President Trump posted after Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe, the deputy director
Stephen Hawking Dies at 76; His Mind Roamed the CosmosThe New York Times - By DENNIS OVERBYEStephen W. Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist and best-selling author who roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair, pondering the nature of gravity and the origin of the universe and becoming an emblem
Paul Newman’s Rolex — with a telling message from his wife — fetches record $17.8 millionThe Washington Post - By Travis M. AndrewsSteve McQueen had his motorcycle. James Dean had his red jacket. And Paul Newman had his Rolex. Fans of Newman began noticing the Rolex Daytona watch wrapped around his wrist in the late 1960s, just as
She’s 26, and Brought Down Uber’s C.E.O. What’s Next?The New York Times - By MAUREEN DOWDSAN FRANCISCO — Susan Fowler was, she recalls, “over the moon” in January 2016. At 24, she had just snagged her dream job as a site reliability engineer at Uber, which had recruited her by telling her
How Valuable Is a Unicorn? Maybe Not as Much as It Claims to BeThe New York Times - By ANDREW ROSS SORKINUber is said to be worth $62.5 billion. Airbnb is valued at $31 billion. Elon Musk’s SpaceX Technologies is valued at $21 billion, and Pinterest at $12.3 billion. Those eye-popping valuations regularly
Silicon Valley Is Not Your FriendThe New York Times We are beginning to understand that tech companies don’t have our best interests at heart. Did they ever?
The Rules of the Gun DebateThe Atlantic - David FrumThe rules for discussing firearms in the United States obscure the obvious solutions. A village has been built in the deepest gully of a floodplain. At regular intervals, flash floods wipe away houses,
Ideas Germany is successful and happy because its values are the opposite of Silicon Valley'sQuartz - Rebecca SchumanIf Silicon Valley ever formed a political party, it might look a lot like the current iteration of Germany’s Free Democrats, or FDP. In the 2017 election cycle, the FDP offered a platform that reads like
speech-bubblehodinkee.com - Benjamin Clymer In the fall of 2014, I was one of the very few watch industry insiders to be invited to the launch of the first Apple Watch. The ensuing story (which …
News (U.S.) Sean Spicer Is Honored Because — As Bush Officials Have Shown — D.C. Elites Always ThriveThe Intercept - Glenn Greenwald Sean Spicer’s playful, glamorous appearance at last night’s Emmy Awards and being honored as a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School (the …
Amazon plans to build second, ‘equal’ headquarters outside Seattleseattletimes.com The online retail giant, which employs about 40,000 people in the city after a hiring boom and urban build-out with little precedent in modern …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo John Lanchester: It Zucks!lrb.co.uk I am scared of Facebook. The company’s ambition, its ruthlessness, and its lack of a moral compass scare me. It goes back to that moment of its …
A Serf on Google’s FarmTalking Points Memo - By Josh Marshall An unintended effect of Google’s heavy-handed attempt to silence Barry Lynn and his Open Markets program at New America has been to shine a really …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Serfing on the Giants’ Farmsdaringfireball.net - John Gruber Josh Marshall has a great post describing in detail the control Google wields over the advertising industry, “A Serf on Google’s Farm”:But here’s …
Quote Symbol …Andrew Carter https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/opinion/google-influence-think-tanks.html
President Obama, Where Are You?The New York Times - By CAROLINE RANDALL WILLIAMSNASHVILLE — President Obama, now is the time to start talking. I appreciate the instinct to hold back, to follow the keep-quiet-about-the-new-guy tradition of former presidents. But these are not traditional
Redmond has a new family-owned bookstore, and they’re living their dreamseattletimes.com - Moira Macdonald Brick & Mortar Books opened earlier this year in Redmond Town Center. It’s run by the Ullom family — three generations help out — and you can feel …
Quote Symbol …Andrew Carter https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/opinion/the-russians-were-involved-but-it-wasnt-about-collusion.html
How Jony Ive Masterminded Apple’s New HeadquartersThe Wall Street Journal. - Christina PassarielloWith Apple Park, the company’s chief designer has once again brought Steve Jobs’s exacting design vision to life ON A SUNNY DAY in May, Jonathan Ive —Jony to anyone who knows him—first encounters a completed
Quote Symbol …Andrew Carter https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/opinion/travis-kalanick-uber-bad-behavior.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
Trickle-down workaholism in startupssignalvnoise.com - DHH “And then I said anyone not willing to break their backs working for me was a tourist!”If you want to understand why so many startups become infected …
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage ItThe New York Times - By DAVID STREITFELDSAN FRANCISCO — Evan Williams is the guy who opened up Pandora’s box. Until he came along, people had few places to go with their overflowing emotions and wild opinions, other than writing a letter to
One More ThingWIRED - Steven Levy On June 7, 2011, a local businessman addressed a meeting of the Cupertino City Council. He had not been on the agenda, but his presence wasn’t a …
Edward Snowden and Cory Doctorow Talk Sci-Fi and RealityThe New York Times - By ALEXANDRA ALTERAbout half an hour into Cory Doctorow’s discussion of his new science-fiction novel, “Walkaway,” at the New York Public Library on Wednesday, the man interviewing him suddenly froze in midsentence. The
At a Besieged White House, Tempers Flare and Confusion SwirlsThe New York Times - By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMANWASHINGTON — The bad-news stories slammed into the White House in pitiless succession on Tuesday, leaving President Trump’s battle-scarred West Wing aides staring at their flat screens in glassy-eyed The
In Ransomware Attack, Where Does Microsoft’s Responsibility Lie?The New York Times - By NICK WINGFIELDSEATTLE — When malicious software first became a serious problem on the internet about 15 years ago, most people agreed that the biggest villain, after the authors of the damaging code, was Microsoft.
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassadorThe Washington Post - Greg Miller and Greg JaffePresident Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s
Hacking Attack Has Security Experts Scrambling to Contain FalloutThe New York Times - By MARK SCOTT and NICK WINGFIELDGovernments, companies and security experts from China to Britain raced on Saturday to contain the fallout from an audacious global cyberattack amid fears that if they did not succeed, companies would
