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Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Online Safety Bill

Tech companies and privacy activists are claiming victory after an eleventh-hour concession by the British government in a long-running battle over end-to-end encryption.The so-called “spy clause” in the UK’s Online Safety Bill,...

The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet

The UK’s ambitious and controversial proposed internet regulation started with scribblings on the back of a packet for a brie and cranberry sandwich from Pret a Manger. Those notes, from discussions between...

Mykhailo Fedorov Is Running Ukraine’s War Against Russia Like a Startup

For thousands of Ukrainians, Mark Hamill is the voice of the air raids. The first notice of an incoming attack is an ear-splitting whoop-whoop coming out of cell phone speakers, followed by...

The Remarkable Resilience of Ukraine’s Tech Sector

In February 2022, Ukraine’s tech sector was booming. Between 2016 and 2021, the country’s IT exports tripled to nearly $7 billion a year, according to the IT Association of Ukraine. Its universities...

Rebuilding Ukraine Is an Act of Resistance

There are black roses all over Irpin—the remnants of fire damage on the fronts of apartment blocks. There are shell craters hastily filled in and boarded up buildings waiting to be pulled...

How to Win a War With Trucks, Trolls, and Tourniquets

Good tourniquets save lives. Bad ones kill soldiers. The global market is awash with cheaply-made knock-offs: Handles that shear off under tension, rubber tubes that won’t tighten around a limb, devices that...

I’m Reddit’s CEO and Think Regulating Social Media Is Tyranny. AITA?

For the first 20 minutes of our conversation, Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, the sixth most-visited website in the US, does a good impression of a 2020s tech executive. “Our mission,” he...

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