The Washington Post
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William H. McRaven
– Aug 16, 11:44 AM
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Former CIA director John Brennan…
Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies won the Distinguished Paper prize at this year's Usenix Security Conference; its authors, researchers at Belgium's Catholic University in Leuven, revealed a…
The New York Times
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Kate Conger
– Aug 16, 9:23 AM
Hundreds of Google employees, upset at the company's decision to secretly build a censored version of its search engine for China, have signed a letter demanding more transparency to understand the ethical consequences of their work. In the letter…
In a café on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a one-time videogame developer turned political theorist named Santiago Siri is trying to explain to me how his nonprofit startup, Democracy.Earth, aims to fix the world's broken politics with…
Nick Millington had just started to feel like a successful software engineer. It was early 2003, and at age 26, he had already begun a fruitful career at Microsoft. He feared his one-bedroom apartment in Redmond, Washington—filled with a…
