How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt](thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

664 points by the-mitr 5 months ago | 224 comments

MIT Press Reader book excerpt recounting how whistleblower Mark Klein gave the EFF evidence of the NSA's secret AT&T wiretapping facility, Room 641A.

Surveillance and the history of 19th-century wearable tech(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

48 points by lapetitejort 1 year ago | 12 comments

An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist czechoslovakia(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

109 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 59 comments

The Wet History of Media in the Bathroom(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

12 points by zdw 1 year ago | 6 comments

The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

105 points by EA-3167 1 month ago | 34 comments

MIT Press Reader article on the history of Tetris, covering disputes over its mathematical origins, erased collaborators, offshore money, and copyright control.

The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

62 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 150 comments

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates(theverge.com)

482 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 312 comments

A Verge Decoder interview with prosecutor Brendan Ballou on how private equity buys companies from vet offices to tech firms, why the system is broken, and fixes.

Everything you do is being recorded(theatlantic.com)

393 points by ike_usawa 2 months ago | 334 comments

An Atlantic article by Ross Andersen on pervasive recording by AI wearables and other surveillance, and whether people can fight back.

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance(eff.org)

408 points by pseudolus 8 months ago | 122 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Matthew Guariglia arguing tech companies should not be pressured by government into conducting surveillance.

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit(djnn.sh)

1070 points by vxvxvx 11 months ago | 300 comments

Blog post criticizing Anthropic's report on disrupting an AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign; the captured page shows a Cloudflare block screen.

How the Military Will Hack the Election(kenklippenstein.com)

127 points by pavel_lishin 11 days ago | 53 comments

Ken Klippenstein Substack article reporting on Task Force Raider's role in the 2026 US elections and military officers' unease about it.

US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report(cnn.com)

391 points by realsarm 1 month ago | 306 comments

CNN report on a US military near-incident after an AI system produced a hallucinated intelligence report, reportedly involving a Chinese ship.