Every city is going to change as people realize that they can work from home just as easily as in the office. But Silicon Valley might change the most: tech workers largely have flexible jobs, and tech companies have been very open to employees working remotely. Combine that with the crazy rents in Silicon Valley and you have the recipe for major change, even when we’re all able to come back from quarantine.

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Marcus Hutchins saved the Internet and then the FBI arrested him. Here’s his riveting life story, with lessons for all of us and a big moral question. Can good deeds in the present absolve us from the sins of the past?

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Many of my peers, and some legislators, are now arguing that the tech platforms should pay publishers directly. that’s an argument that i understand, but that also makes me uneasy.

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Moderna has moved into phase II clinical trials. This is fast! We’re making genuine progress toward a vaccine for Covid-19, which means it’s a good to step back and look at all the different efforts now underway.

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Companies are using more and more surveillance software to monitor what their employees do on their machines. You can see why! With everyone working from home, it’s harder to tell who’s being productive. But it’s also creepy and could easily be misused.

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Facebook announces the members of its new oversight board. It's an impressive group! The key questions, to me at least, are how far the purview of the group eventually stretches and how much their decisions really matter. After all, whether content stays up or goes down, is a fairly small matter with Facebook. The bigger question is what the algorithm shows to a huge number of people and what it shows to very few.

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