Last Week in Plain English

By In Plain English

A weekly dose of tech news, a fascinating global news roundup, with a few unique stories mixed into the concoction.

Previous issues

Internet's Worst Stalker Site, Big Tech Hiring Loses Steam

#51 Sep 26, 2022

Uber Hacked By Teen & Robot Who Laughs

#50 Sep 19, 2022

How Tech Firms Penalise the Innocent & Historic Drop in US Life Expectancy

#49 Sep 12, 2022

#48

Sep 6, 2022

10 Most Popular Programming Articles (August 2022) – Here are the 10 most popular articles on In Plain English. Need inspiration for your next article — l
#47

Sep 5, 2022

What GPT-3 Knows About You & Middlemen Who Make Money Off Climate Disasters – Large language models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-3, are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from t
#46

Aug 29, 2022

Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Regret & Europe’s Narrow Escape From Radiation Disaster – Jack Dorsey, the Founder and former CEO of Twitter expressed his regret about the social media platfo
#45

Aug 22, 2022

Car Explosion Kills Daughter of ‘Putin’s Brain’ & Google Workers Demand Abortion Protection – Darya Dugina, daughter of Putin’s ally and far-right philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, was killed in a car
#44

Aug 15, 2022

The State of Online Privacy Post-Roe & How Meta is Tracking Users – Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is using a tracking code to follow its users arou
#43

Aug 8, 2022

Alex Jones Fined $45m for Sandy Hook Claims & A Troubling Trend in Startup Layoffs – InfoWars’ Alex Jones, who claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings were a hoax, has been ordered to
#42

Aug 2, 2022

The 10 Most Popular Programming Articles (July 2022) – Here are the 10 most popular articles on In Plain English. Need inspiration for your next article — l
#41

Aug 1, 2022

Bitcoin & Recession, Tor Vs. Russian Censorship, & President Biden Deepfake? – The US economy shrank for two consecutive quarters - setting off the alarms of recession. But crypto
#40

Jul 25, 2022

Chess Robot Attacks 7-Year-Old & What It's Like to Live on Mars Time – At the Moscow Open chess tournament, an AI-powered robot grabbed its opponent—a seven-year-old boy’s—
#39

Jul 18, 2022

Ruined Amateur Crypto Traders & Influencers Vs. Social Media Algorithms – The crypto market was once an “obscure niche” but went on to become a trillion-dollar industry attrac
#38

Jul 11, 2022

How Top Politicians Secretly Helped Uber & Netflix Tech Workers’ Woes – The Uber Files, a trove of 124,000 records spanning 2013 to 2017, was leaked to The Guardian and shar
#37

Jul 5, 2022

The 10 Most Popular Programming Articles (June 2022) – Here are the 10 most popular articles on In Plain English. Need inspiration for your next article — l
#36

Jul 4, 2022

FBI's Most Wanted 'Bitcoin Billionaire' and Code-Stealing AI – When OneCoin was at its peak in 2017, its owner, Dr. Ruja Ignatova, disappeared, scamming thousands o
#35

Jun 27, 2022

Impact of Roe v Wade on Millions & Web3's Shortcomings – In an unprecedented reversal, the US supreme court overturned the landmark Roe v Wade case that grant
#34

Jun 20, 2022

Meltdown in Cryptoland, Firing of 5 at Space X, & Negotiating Salary – Up until a few months ago, cryptocurrencies were all the buzz but now the crypto world is in chaos wi
#33

Jun 13, 2022

Lay Off After $100K Loan, ADHD in Adults & Musk vs. Nadella – Bolt, a fintech startup supposedly growing “at lightning speed”, laid off 250 employees - almost a th
#32

Jun 7, 2022

The 10 Most Popular Programming Articles (May 2022) – Here are the 10 most popular articles on In Plain English. Need inspiration for your next article — l

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