Fast Company • November 2023 Claims that NSO’s Pegasus spyware helps Israel find hostages are ‘nonsense,’ experts say The infamous Israeli surveillance tool would be easily foiled by Hamas kidnappers.
Fast Company • October 2023 California’s new right to repair law fails to stop the ‘parts pairing’ loophole Companies including Apple use a little-known technique to make third-party repairs harder than they need to be.
The Guardian • September 2023 ‘I pulled my sock down and saw blood’: drivers for Amazon in US complain of dog attacks Why Amazon's Flex drivers receive no worker’s compensation after a bite.
Fast Company • September 2023 ‘We do not have fast companies anymore’: Cory Doctorow on where tech went wrong, and how to fix it The writer and activist shares strategies to combat Big Tech's boring dystopia.
Fast Company • August 2023 Uber and Lyft are playing chicken with lawmakers—and the rideshare giants keep winning Why don’t localities stand their ground against rideshare companies?
Fast Company • August 2023 Private prison company GEO pivoted to tech, and it’s raking in hundreds of millions Rights advocates say the electronic monitoring program is really a kind of “e-carceration."
The Guardian • July 2023 $7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be NPCs The videos borrow tactics honed for years by online erotic workers.
Fast Company • July 2023 A DoorDash worker cursed at her over a $5 tip. Then she learned what they’re paid A viral video becomes a lesson about the grim economics of gig work.
Fast Company • June 2023 Exclusive: TSA to expand its facial recognition program to over 400 airports AI-ethics advocates say there’s evidence the program is already violating travelers’ consent.
The Guardian • June 2023 Four more people just died in an e-bike fire. If nothing changes, they won’t be the last After yet another deadly lithium battery fire, why isn't more being done to prevent them?
Fast Company • June 2023 Ron DeSantis’ deepfakes of Trump and Fauci are a kind of ‘fascist realism’ Deepfakes like these reinforce a grim new reality.
Fast Company • May 2023 I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket. What followed was a thing of beauty The judge called its defense ‘persuasive.’
Fast Company • May 2023 Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them The Signal president on why labor organizing still matters.
Fast Company • January 2023 Amazon was cited for ‘serious’ worker safety violations. Why was the fine only $60,000? How Amazon gets off with a slap on the wrist for systematically endangering its workers.
The Guardian • November 2022 Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them Tech-savvy users are rallying around Mastodon — here's how it works.
The Guardian • August 2022 The AI startup erasing call center worker accents New software can make overseas call center workers sound American — but at what cost?
The Guardian • July 2022 Can ‘chief vibes officers’ keep things positive amid the crypto collapse? The goal is to shore up the vibes as prices go down.
The Guardian • June 2022 Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project “People looking to make money, not lose it.”
The Guardian • May 2022 ‘This can’t be real’: Grubhub promotion turns New York City restaurants into a ‘war zone’ A food delivery platform Grubhub went badly awry – and proved there’s really no such thing as a free lunch.
The Guardian • May 2022 Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like How Elon Musk makes Chinese workers put in hours that would be unacceptable elsewhere.