Fifty years ago, a fire ripped through the National Personnel Records Center(wired.com)

142 points by pepys 3 years ago | 54 comments

Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents(wired.com)

230 points by Aboutplants 1 day ago | 93 comments

WIRED article reporting a leak exposing data on 41,000 Homeland Security workers, including undercover ICE agents, facility locations, and phone numbers.

Advertising Broke the World(wired.com)

9 points by cainxinth 2 years ago | 1 comments

C. Elegans: The worm that no computer scientist can crack(wired.com)

142 points by noleary 1 year ago | 103 comments

ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Ops in US History(wired.com)

892 points by zzzeek 1 day ago | 906 comments

WIRED article reporting that ICE's Homeland Security Investigations is conducting large-scale surveillance of left-wing activists, compared to COINTELPRO-era crackdowns.

High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan(wired.com)

199 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 150 comments

Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks(theverge.com)

534 points by leotravis10 1 year ago | 396 comments

A Verge feature on how Wikipedia has endured attacks and remained resilient through its neutrality policies and history, with Jimmy Wales.

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act(bbc.com)

1024 points by phlummox 1 year ago | 786 comments

BBC News article reporting that Wikipedia lost its legal challenge against verification rules under the UK's Online Safety Act.

In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022)(colinmorris.github.io)

360 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 198 comments

Colin Morris's 2022 blog post exploring how to find the least viewed articles on Wikipedia using pageview data and the API.

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links(arstechnica.com)

565 points by nobody9999 8 months ago | 341 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today and is removing about 695,000 archive links after DDoS and snapshot-tampering allegations.

Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia(medium.com)

465 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 275 comments

Medium essay by Jake Orlowitz arguing Wikipedia/Wikimedia has adopted big tech's anti-labor practices; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.

How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet(cambridge.org)

455 points by bawolff 3 years ago | 485 comments

Open-access American Political Science Review article examining how rule ambiguity and institutional clashes shaped Wikipedia's governance and community.