The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism
Sweden was long seen as a progressive utopia. Then came waves of immigrants — and the forces of populism at home and abroad. RINKEBY, Sweden — Johnny Castillo, a Peruvian-born neighborhood watchman in this district of Stockholm, still puzzles over the strange events...
8chan, Megaphone for Gunmen, Has Gone Dark. ‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says Its Creator.
Fredrick Brennan was getting ready for church at his home in the Philippines when the news of a mass shooting in El Paso arrived. His response was immediate and instinctive. “Whenever I hear about a mass shooting, I say, ‘All right, we have to research if there’s an...
Lästipset: När vi litar blint på tekniken och det vi skrivit
Stavfel och ord som tolkas fel i vår digital tillvaro kan leda till helt felaktiga beslut och rent vådliga konsekvenser. Här är långläsning och felktolkningar och stavfel. One day in May this year, Luigi Rimonti left his home in Gateshead to catch a ferry from North...
The Khashoggi affair: Twitter manipulation in the Gulf
From the Gulf crisis to the Khashoggi affair, Al Jazeera investigates how bots influence online conversations. In this series of articles, Al Jazeera examines how Twitter in the Middle East has changed since the Arab Spring. Government talking points are being...
Notorious MyDoom Worm Still on AutoPilot After 15 Years
The notorious Mydoom email worm, considered to be one of the most damaging malware strains ever developed, is still doing rounds on the Internet, working on autopilot and actively targeting email users all over the world. Mydoom (also known as Novarg, Mimail, and...
The Audio App That’s Transforming Erotica
The notorious Mydoom email worm, considered to be one of the most damaging malware strains ever developed, is still doing rounds on the Internet, working on autopilot and actively targeting email users all over the world. Mydoom (also known as Novarg, Mimail, and...
Vandaler gripna efter att ha loggat på skolans nätverk
Not long ago, my co-worker Josh Rothman and I each listened to several hours of audio erotica—a broad swath of podcasts and such—as research for a proposed story about “sexy self-care.” Erotic podcasts, like many genres of podcast, have been booming in recent years,...
How a Longtime Tech Editor Keeps His Tech Use Simple
Dagen före examen tog de fyra ungdomarna sig in på den gena skolan sprayade väggarna med rasistiska och homfobiska slagord. För skolans personal kom till skolan dagens efter så möttes de av en svastika. De fyra kunde gripas sedan det visat sig att de loggat in på...
Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software
Why complicate things with unproven bleeding-edge tech? Jim Kerstetter, deputy tech editor, also shops local and stays away from Uber and Postmates. How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Jim Kerstetter, deputy...
Gates Says Steve Jobs Cast ‘Spells’ to Keep Apple From Dying
Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. Here’s why Firefox is better. You open your browser to look at the Web. Do you know who is looking back at you? Over a recent week of Web surfing,...
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