Maad al-Zekri, Maggie Michael, and Nariman El-Mofty won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and the Atlantic Media's 16th Annual Michael Kelly award for their reporting on the war in Yemen. The reporters were honored for their heroic work covering the...
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The Future of Military Technology is Intense
But the future of the human race is in doubt. The Science of war is looking more like science fiction. Technologies that were once confined to the fevered dreams of Hollywood sci-fi directors are becoming commonplace throughout projections of tomorrows military:...
Privacy Rights and Regulations
I value my privacy. It is nearly always on my mind as I interact online, but also as I live in the so-called real world. In the evening, I pull the shades down. I just don't like having people watch me, whether I am reading a book, enjoying a television show, or...
Napster, File Sharing, and Private Property
In 1999, a teenager named Shawn Fanning creating a file sharing application called Napster which took the world by storm. This application revolutionized how MP3 audio files could be shared. Anybody who was into computers at that time can remember how amazing it was...
Tor and the So-Called Dark Web
The word Tor comes from the acronym T-O-R which stands for The Onion Router. What the Onion Router--or Tor--does is it routes your internet traffic through multiple Tor nodes on its way to your destination. So, on the regular internet, what we call the clear web, if...
Amazon Shareholders Demand Halt in Sales of Facial Recognition Tech to US Government
Score one for freedom in the struggle between culture and technology.
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet: Reason Roundup
All your base are belong to us. A leaked memo circulating among Senate Democrats contains a host of bonkers authoritarian proposals for regulating digital platforms, purportedly as a way to get tough on Russian bots and fake news. To save American trust in "our...
FPF #208 – Stalin's Military Failures guest Marko Marjanovic
On FPF #208, Marko Marjanovic joins the show to discuss the failures of Stalin's centrally planned military leading up to WWII. The failures amount to the USSR having the most losses on one side of a war. While the Red Army had the equipment and technology to defend...
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