Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T(the-independent.com)

69 points by wrxd 3 months ago | 61 comments

A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald(independent.co.uk)

240 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 380 comments

What the US Pornhub 'ban' is really about(independent.co.uk)

5 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 2 comments

Cash App founder Bob Lee had left San Francisco over crime(independent.co.uk)

32 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 0 comments

Filmmaker Ken Burns calls Mark Zuckerberg an `enemy of the state' (2021)(independent.co.uk)

11 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 years ago | 0 comments

Sailors on USS Lincoln outside Iran are exhausted and suffering from poor morale(independent.co.uk)

17 points by speckx 2 months ago | 4 comments

Jake Seliger has died(marginalrevolution.com)

908 points by A_D_E_P_T 2 years ago | 189 comments

Alex Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution post remembering writer Jake Seliger after his death from cancer, noting his advocacy for faster drug development.

CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms(krebsonsecurity.com)

549 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 142 comments

KrebsOnSecurity investigation finding that the CEO of data-removal service Onerep.com, operating from Belarus and Cyprus, founded dozens of people-search sites.

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.

Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving(economist.com)

12 points by kensai 9 days ago | 2 comments

An Economist business article arguing that Elon Musk's charitable foundation is opaque, gives away little, and serves Musk's own interests.

I skipped to the ending(danangell.com)

520 points by BHSPitMonkey 3 years ago | 322 comments

A personal blog essay by Dan Angell reflecting on starting to make websites as a child in 2003 and how his path into a software career turned out.

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.