Huawei fires back, points to US’ history of spying on phone networks
Enlarge / Huawei sign displayed at CES 2020 in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Chinese vendor Huawei has...
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This Week In Techdirt History: February 2nd – 8th
Five Years Ago This week in 2015, Michael Hayden was saying some worrying things about the 4th Amendment, while we learned about the FISA court’s...
This Week In Techdirt History: January 26th – February 1st
Five Years Ago This week in 2015, the Charlie Hebdo attack had the UK reviving interest in its “Snooper’s Charter”, while we learned about how...
This Week In Techdirt History: January 19th – 25th
Five Years Ago This week in 2015, newly released documents from the Snowden leak revealed how the UK’s GCHG collected emails from journalists and used...
This Week In Techdirt History: January 12th – 18th
Five Years Ago This week in 2015, New York’s top prosecutor was jumping into the war on smartphone encryption alongside UK Prime Minister David Cameron...
Cherry Viola Mechanical Keyboard Switch: The Biggest News in Keyboard History?
Keyboard switch manufacturer and designer, Cherry, just announced their newest and most revolutionary product: the Viola mechanical switch which may appear in keyboards by the...
This Week In Techdirt History: January 5th – 11th
Five Years Ago This week in 2015, the administration made the meaningless gesture of sanctioning North Korea over the Sony hack, while James Clapper was...
A Conversation With Tom Richey – History Teacher & YouTube Star
During winter break I caught up with my friend Tom Richey to record an episode of The Practical Ed Tech Podcast. Tom is a high...
The Hacker History of Music Technologies
Music throughout history has been inspired and changed by hackers and makers, and never moreso than in the 20th century. Helen Leigh is one such...
This Week In Techdirt History: December 29th – January 4th
Five Years Ago This week in 2014/15, we reveled in the tradition of governments dropping news on Christmas Eve in the hopes that nobody will...
Teaching History With Technology 2020
The primary means through which I’m able to keep this site running is through revenue from speaking engagements and sales of my Practical Ed Tech...
This Week In Techdirt History: December 22nd – 28th
Five Years Ago This week in 2014, NSA mega-defender Mike Rigers took a moment on his way out of congress to attack Obama for not...
5 milestones that shaped 50 years of internet history
Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET....
This Week In Techdirt History: December 15th – 21st
Five Years Ago This week in 2014, the world was reeling from a major hack of Sony and a trove of documents it exposed. While...
Aramco, Holder of the Largest IPO in History is Available on eToro
Founded in 1933, Saudi Aramco is the owner of one of the world’s largest oil reservoirs, containing 260 billion barrels — that’s more than ten...