In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honour and our precious Egypt. A series of messages arrived all ostensibly from the network provider Vodafone. All pro-regime and all with the…

Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a second key, and give the copy to the government. What's changed, what's happening now, what's next.

Inside the all-hands meeting that led a third of the company to quit, and an executive to resign

Update, April 9, 2021 : We've launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create...

How to win the war on drugs

We sat down with Dimitra Nikolaou, a Greek journalist, who told us what to expect if our economy ever goes tits up.

Italy has so many wonderful, beautiful amazing places and things, and all if it in an area about the size of California.  And yet, it’s got a lot of problems too.   What drives me crazy in pa…