Reddit CEO slams moderators amid blackout, compares them to aristocracy(washingtonpost.com)

64 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 12 comments

Kevin McCarthy ousted as speaker in Republican-led House(washingtonpost.com)

24 points by zzzeek 3 years ago | 10 comments

ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real prof as accused(washingtonpost.com)

47 points by fnimick 3 years ago | 31 comments

NSO developed 3 new ways to hack iPhones, Citizen Lab says(washingtonpost.com)

101 points by lisper 3 years ago | 42 comments

First hurricane to hit California in 84 years(washingtonpost.com)

96 points by laurex 3 years ago | 84 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Broke Meta(washingtonpost.com)

84 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 107 comments

FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year(theregister.com)

446 points by nabla9 3 years ago | 134 comments

The Register article on a declassified FISA court opinion showing the FBI misused Section 702 warrantless search powers over 278,000 times in 2020–2021.

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts(washingtonpost.com)

642 points by Despegar 1 year ago | 925 comments

Washington Post exclusive reporting that the U.K. secretly ordered Apple to provide blanket access to users' encrypted iCloud backups worldwide.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins(nytimes.com)

469 points by doctaj 1 year ago | 578 comments

New York Times article reporting that the CIA now assesses a lab leak as the likely origin of Covid; the page loaded a captcha instead.

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.