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“I’d like corn for dinner.” So, six months ago, you’ll need to plant the corn so you can harvest it today and cook it tonight. Or you can drive to the farmer’s market …

I hesitated posting this at all, because I am profoundly uninterested in hearing guesses framed as facts from all of the armchair epidemiologists out there, and this is catnip for them... But here's how I've been seeing things these last few months. Maybe you have too. My goal is to not catch COVID at all. CDC tells me that my goal should instead be just "don't fill the hospitals past 100%", ...

Let's all go to the lobby!

Several days into Russia’s attack on Ukraine, we are already witnessing astonishing stories play out online. Social media platforms, after years of Techlash, are once again in the center of a histo…

Why Russia is not as isolated as the US press would have you believe. The US has wrongfooted some recent dealing with influential countries.

From road warriors to raging bulls, horny teens to homesick aliens — the best films of the lost decade known as the Eighties

The Columbia Journalism School recently announced the 16 winners of the 2022 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, including According to Need, a project of 99% Invisible produced by Katie Mingle. The awards were announced during a special virtual presentation, highlighting outstanding reporting in the public interest, with hosts Dr. Sanjay Gupta (CNN Chief Medical Correspondent)

Born in a cowshed in India, Siddhant now works for Meta in California. But he hides his background as a Dalit and fears he can never reveal his true self.

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused major disruption throughout the world and has delivered a new "norm" for working practices. Suddenly, whole teams are working from home, but many companies were totally unprepared for this and lacked the investment and foresight to make sure employees' needs were met in their new home office environments.

Ethereum's smart contracts allow developers, for the first time in history, to build ownership experiences residing in the commons. Traditional cloud platforms like Amazon's AWS or Microsoft

In my business-government relations class yesterday, we were originally scheduled to discuss empirical papers on general information problem...

[For CoinDesk's Tax Week, I wrote about taxing proof-of-work, the mechanism used to secure Bitcoin. I'm still not 100% sure how to design t...

With privacy, we're almost never dealing with absolutes. Absolute digital privacy can be achieved by simply never using the Internet. But that also means being absolutely cut off from online interaction. Consequently, privacy is a spectrum, and we must choose where we should be on that spectrum, taking all factors into consideration.

When starting something new you don't start at the beginning. You start in the middle.

Nearly three years ago, we were joined by Professor Jeff Kosseff to discuss his then-new book about Section 230, The Twenty-Six Words That Created The Internet. Now, Jeff has a new book coming out, ab

Plus: Namecheap tells customers in Russia they are no longer welcome, citing 'war crimes'

From TikTok videos of tanks in Belgorod to Telegram clips of strikes near Kyiv, social media footage has played a key role in the news coverage of Ukraine, revealing new attacks and military movements.

Episode 396 of the Cyberlaw Podcast.

“Quick thread: I want you all to meet Vladimir Bondarenko. He’s a blogger from Kiev who really hates the Ukrainian government. He also doesn’t exist, according to Facebook. He’s an invention of a Russian troll farm targeting Ukraine. His face was made by AI. https://t.co/uWslj1Xnx3”

#Twitter, # Meta, #SpaceX and other companies are supporting #Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. A campaign, #TechForUkraine, offers tech help to #NGOs.

A cyberattack on a NATO member state could trigger Article 5, its collective defence clause, a NATO official said on Monday, amid concerns that chaos in cyberspace around Russia's invasion of Ukraine could spill over into other territories.

“This Russian owned yacht named "Ragnar", was ransacked by the Norwegian Coast Guard, Police and Customs earlier today. It's owned by former KGB officier Vladimir Strzhalkovsky ; who is an old friend of Vladimir Putin. It looks like a boat used for cutting fiber cables. 1/3 https://t.co/6QwrCPtuHS”

“Day 4- SITREP: The gulf between popular perception and strategic reality continues to grow in Ukraine. If you only read Western media, you would think the Russian military was on the verge of defeat. In reality, they have a clear path to victory.”

“Why Russia will lose this war? Much of the "realist" discourse is about accepting Putin's victory, cuz it's *guaranteed*. But how do we know it is? I'll argue that analysts 1) overrate Russian army 2) underrate Ukrainian one 3) misunderstand Russian strategy & political goals🧵 https://t.co/pXpfIcq3Zs”

The accident, in which 14 men lost their lives, will likely have a knock-on effect on the Russian Navy's massive modernization program. Most at risk is the submarine Belgorod.