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Dark patterns: How websites trick you into making unintended (and possibly harmful) choices
Deceptively labelled buttons, choices that are hard to undo – these dark patterns are how some websites trick people into giving up their money and information.
Jasmine McNealy, The Conversation
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Explained: Why so many websites went down across the world on Tuesday
Sites such as the BBC, Pinterest, the Financial Times and Reddit were offline for a short period.
Paul Haskell-Dowland, The Conversation
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Tim Berners-Lee’s manifesto for fixing the internet falls short. This is why
The manifesto released by the internet founder puts the onus of ‘saving the web’ on citizens and absolves big corporations of responsibilities.
Terry Flew, The Conversation
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Memoir: A journalist remembers the 1960s and how the Naxal movement was portrayed in books and films
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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‘What does it take / to let go?’: There’s a new anthology of English haikus written by Indian poets
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Congress moves Madras HC seeking Election Commission action against Modi for propagating hate speech
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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‘We hold the power’: How Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, wants to fix his creation
What started out as a way for scientists to share information went on to change the world. Three decades later, its founder reflects on his creation.
Alex Hern, The Guardian
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India is among the countries that are most at risk from cyber attacks, finds study
Data-mining experts from two American universities ranked 44 nations based on vulnerability to such crimes.
Scroll Staff