Technology Companies

Table of Contents

TODO

  1. Techies and the Homeless: Frenemies Forever?
  2. Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America
  3. Bodies Are Canceled
  4. Facebook Uses Deceptive Math to Hide Its Hate Speech Problem
  5. The Enshittification of TikTok
  6. Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?
  7. The College Kids Doing What Twitter Won’t
  8. Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish
  9. Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jay-graber-bluesky/
  10. Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode https://www.wired.com/story/airbnb-is-in-midlife-crisis-mode-reinvention-app-services/
  11. Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-china-996-work-schedule/
  12. Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/twitter-outage-elon-musk-user-restrictions/674609/
  13. Zuckerberg has a plan to rescue Meta, but can he convince his own employees? https://www.theverge.com/23277797/mark-zuckerberg-meta-facebook-employees-pressure
  14. Facebook is Dead; Long Live Meta https://stratechery.com/2025/meta-earnings-meta-turns-the-dial-social-network-r-i-p/
  15. A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home

Palantir

  1. Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government
  2. What Does Palantir Actually Do?

Google and Apple

  1. Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-google-ai-workers-were-fired-amid-fight-over-working-conditions/
  2. The Meta Trial Shows the Dangers of Selling Out https://www.wired.com/story/the-meta-trial-shows-the-dangers-of-selling-out/
  3. The Pressure Is on for Big Tech to Regulate the Broken Digital Advertising Industry: https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-digital-advertising-regulation/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
  4. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/19/no-1-thing-that-makes-navy-seals-olympic-athletes-google-employees-highly-successful.html
  5. Tension Inside Google Over a Fired AI Researcher’s Conduct - https://www.wired.com/story/google-brain-ai-researcher-fired-tension/
  6. Is this another tech bubble bursting? - https://www.vox.com/recode/23069110/tech-bubble-google-facebook-tesla-amazon-crypto-charts
  7. Europe’s Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning - https://www.wired.com/story/google-analytics-europe-austria-privacy-shield/
  8. A Bunch of Malicious Google Play Apps Stole User Banking Info - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/google-play-apps-downloaded-300000-times-stole-bank-credentials/
  9. A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
  10. U.S. Waged Secret Legal Battle to Obtain Emails of 4 Times Reporters - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/politics/times-reporter-emails-gag-order-trump-google.html
  11. Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? - https://paygo.media/p/25171
  12. Apple Finally Remembered What Makes Laptops Great - https://www.wired.com/story/macbook-pro-ports-magsafe-design/
  13. Apple and the End of the Car as We Know It - https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-and-the-end-of-the-car-as-we-know-it-11621656010
  14. Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies - https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-amazon-and-common-enemies/
  15. Jony Ive on Why the iPod Was Apple’s First Wearable - https://www.wired.com/story/rewired-2021-jony-ive-anna-wintour/
  16. Apple Finally Makes It Easier to Repair Your Own iPhone - https://www.wired.com/story/apple-self-service-repair-right-to-repair-iphone-mac/
  17. Apple’s Private Relay Roils Telecoms Around the World - https://www.wired.com/story/icloud-private-relay-blocking/
  18. https://stratechery.com/2024/gemini-and-googles-culture/
  19. Making a Mountain Out of Molehill-Sized M4 News (Apple Company) : https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/making_a_mountain_out_of_molehill-sized_m4_news

Tags

  1. Amazon’s outage on October 20, 2025 and it’s impacts and implications
  2. Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand
  3. What Went Wrong With Zillow? A Real-Estate Algorithm Derailed Its Big Bet
  4. Problems With Oracle’s AI Growth?
  5. Why every website you used to love is getting worse
  6. He Thought He Could Outfox the Gig Economy. He Was Wrong.
  7. Facebook Should Shut Itself Down

Apple

  1. Apple’s Tight Grip on iMessage Spurs Fresh Calls for an Antitrust Probe
  2. F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree
  3. How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

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