Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms(theguardian.com)

63 points by n1b0m 2 years ago | 51 comments

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features(theguardian.com)

93 points by tfourb 1 year ago | 73 comments

Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire(theguardian.com)

19 points by rntn 1 year ago | 2 comments

Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'(theguardian.com)

243 points by adrian_mrd 1 year ago | 219 comments

Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'(theguardian.com)

32 points by jayantbhawal 2 years ago | 28 comments

Naomi Klein: Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. Turns you into a supremacist(theguardian.com)

28 points by beardyw 1 month ago | 5 comments

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

How we lost communication to entertainment(ploum.net)

651 points by 8organicbits 10 months ago | 365 comments

Blog post by Ploum arguing that online communication tools have been turned into entertainment platforms, eroding genuine communication.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing(pluralistic.net)

1007 points by jay_kyburz 2 years ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.

I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music(coryd.dev)

463 points by cdme 3 years ago | 353 comments

Blog post by Cory Dransfeldt arguing he wants to stream his own collected music library rather than use catalogue-based streaming services.

It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership(popcar.bearblog.dev)

594 points by popcar2 3 months ago | 452 comments

A blog post arguing that the debate over physical versus digital games is really about ownership, prompted by PlayStation ending disc production for new games.

Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel(wsj.com)

352 points by hhs 2 years ago | 567 comments

Wall Street Journal article about Americans spending billions on subscriptions such as streaming services that they forget to cancel.