Jacob Silverman

@SilvermanJacob

Hackers extorted millions from Colonial Pipeline, and now they’ve struck the meatpacking giant JBS. There’s one clear way to prevent future attacks.

The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it.

Through ads and op-eds, Facebook is leaning into the demand for more regulation—but only on its preferred terms. Don’t trust it.

As Bitcoin’s price fell by up to 30 percent, its partisans went on Clubhouse and Twitter to offer reassurances and advice to “go outside, go exercise—just don’t follow the swings.”

By hitting foreign media bureaus in Gaza, Israel has revealed something about its view of a free press—even if objectivity-obsessed reporters won’t believe it.

The Tesla executive’s reversal affirms that Bitcoin is an environmentally wasteful multilevel marketing scheme. But the true believers won’t hear it.

Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.

Republicans think overly generous unemployment benefits are keeping people from working. Biden might be taking the bait.

Israel’s latest Palestinian crackdown cries out to be condemned by this administration. Will he break from the deadly status quo?

The popular chat app is exploding in popularity in some Middle Eastern countries. Can it keep its users safe?

Corporate America might protest, but the potential of a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines is worth celebrating—and fighting for.

The Facebook Oversight Board upheld Trump’s ban, but ridiculed the company in the process: “In applying a vague, standardless penalty ... Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities.”

The senator’s new book is a case study in why conservatives struggle to be populists.

Lyft and Uber’s autonomous vehicle hype has far outstripped progress. Let’s put our hopes, and our money, elsewhere.

The post-Covid economic recovery looks anything but fair. Tax the titans of the pandemic!

The latest bad-faith attacks on Biden’s climate envoy show that the GOP is determined to find the next #Benghazi.

What the Apple versus Facebook fight dramatizes is less two competing visions of the internet than which tech titan’s walled garden one might prefer.

Tech companies praised the Derek Chauvin conviction, but their products underwrite the kind of impunity and overstep they claim to oppose.

Countries are launching digital currencies to rival Bitcoin—and opening up new ways to snoop on their citizens in the process.

SpaceX’s Starlink project would add thousands of satellites to a very crowded sky.