All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon Is a Sweetly Sleazy Fantasy Tale
Writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour makes movies that can’t be easily categorised. Her 2014 debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, established this by being a contemporary feminist Persian-language vampire Western filmed in a California ghost town. Her latest, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, is a little less eccentric, but no less unique and…
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Did a Pennsylvania School District Ban the Girls Who Code Books? The Answer Is Complicated.
Four books in the Girls Who Code book series, slim middle-grade novels infused with lessons about life and programming, were banned in a Pennsylvania school district, according to reports earlier this week from Business Insider, Newsweek, The Guardian, and others. The articles circulated widely online, all citing a September 19 report from PEN America, a non-profit…
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The Shell Company Trying to Buy Trump’s Truth Social Is Now Based at a UPS Store Mailbox
Digital World Acquisition Corp., a company you’ve probably never heard of, has fallen on hard times. The so-called “blank-check” entity has been trying to acquire Truth Social, and launch Trump’s “free speech” platform onto the stock market.
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Meta Took Down Alleged Chinese and Russian ‘Influence Operations’ Focused on U.S. Politics and War in Ukraine
Meta this week said it stepped in to disrupt two online “influence operations,” allegedly originating out of Russia and China. The former marks the “largest and most complex Russian-origin operation,” the company’s moved to disrupt since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, while the latter represents the first Meta-disrupted Chinese network focused on U.S. politics…