We’ve left the teens! This Week in Web is still a passion project, but it would mean the world to me if you share with one friend who you think might like this type of coverage. The Appalling State of Appeals for Chelsea Manning Chelsea Manning has been imprisoned for three years already of a…

Were we Expecting Exacting Balance from Facebook? As a company run by humans, biases should be assumed. Facebook is biased. It’s not purely a question of if tech companies are biased, but could any organization honestly be considered unbiased? Big news was made this week of how journalism works at Facebook in a few posts…

I’m very happy that the majority of this week’s content, whether I had seen it or not, was suggested by readers of the newsletter. I’ve had a lot of fun putting This Week in Web together for the past four months, and will continue to do so as long as readers find value in the…

Technology and Elections Elections are kind of a big thing right now. The United States suffers from unreasonably long election cycles in presidential races, to the point that most major candidates have been on the trail for over a year already, with more than a half year left until election day. What if that was…

UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet Sacramento Bee For some reason University of California, Davis wanted to clean up it’s online reputation. Oh wait, they make the reason quite clear: to make the college’s chancellor, Linda Katehi, look better after the scumbag Lt. John Pike pepper sprayed unarmed protestors on campus.…

The Panama Papers – Exponential Growth in Data Leaks will Continue One of the largest news stories to break this week, over a year in the making, are the so-called “Panama Papers”. There’s been a lot of discussion over them, but as they deal with something largely invisible, namely the movement of funds from offshore…

Will America Ever Care About Electric Cars? If they’re as sleek and affordable as the Tesla Model 3, it looks like the answer is yes. Yesterday was the long awaited day that Tesla Motor’s Model 3 became available for preorder. Customers had to come in-person to a Tesla dealership to place their preorder, and it…

Happy Birthday Twitter! Ten years in, and Twitter is at a crossroads. Twitter has been called many things over the past ten years. Fad was an early name, before Flight 1549 and the Arab Spring anointed it the most direct, truthful news service. A worrying liability and cautionary tale for the failing unicorns around it…

iCloud scammer pleads guilty to stealing celebrity nudes Joey davidson, Techno Buffalo Remember two years ago when someone allegedly hacked into the iCloud accounts of dozens of celebrities, mainly women, and stole nude or otherwise compromising photos of them? The event, dubbed “The Fappening” by certain parts of the internet, turns out to have been…

Google’s AI Wins Pivotal Second Game in Match With Go Grandmaster Cade Metz, Wired Widely seen as a test of the growth of deep learning and neural networks in artificial intelligence, even more than Watson’s defeat of Ken Jennings on Jeopardy! five years ago, Google’s AlphaGo has defeated Lee Sedol in the second of their…

Amazon just removed encryption from the software powering Kindles, phones, and tablets Patrick Howell O’Neill, The Daily Dot All major tech coverage the past few weeks has been on Apple’s fight with the Feds over encryption on devices. Google has backed Apple. Facebook has backed Apple. Even Microsoft has finally backed Apple. Apparently Amazon wnats…