Andrew Orlowski

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  • Stephen Fry rewrites computer history again

    Britain’s go-to guy for advertisement voice-overs has had another attempt at explaining computing history, in his own unique way. But he’s got it wrong, and at the same time sullied the memory of one of the industry’s true pioneers.

  • Habeas Data, or Why any Silicon Valley ‘bill of rights’ will guarantee you never have any

    Widespread ridicule has greeted the announcement that eight giant technology companies led by Google and including Facebook and LinkedIn were going to save us from the NSA. The ridicule is thoroughly justified, for trusting giant corporations – whose business models rely on selling your identity to advertisers – to safeguard your privacy is like hiring a kleptomaniac…

  • “The price of nothing”

    Kim Dotcom has a new service, with features that Forbes calls “See No Evil, Store No Evil”. But perhaps that should be “see no value, store no value”. I have not come to mock the rotund self-promoter, but rather to talk about what might happen if its users were to throw themselves at the service…

  • Why do sheep need Twitter?

    Spot the broadband user in this picture A House of Lords committee this week declared that British taxpayers must foot the bill for an internet that nobody wants – unless perhaps they have a second home in the country. Some observations by the committee may be accurate: Britain’s broadband is slower than its rivals. But…