Jonah Aragon writes and makes videos on data privacy, digital rights and cybersecurity, with analysis of surveillance tech such as Flock license plate readers and their Fourth Amendment implications. The newsletter also covers consumer privacy tools like mobile carriers and includes practical self-hosting tips, with some referral-link disclosures.
Website: https://www.jonaharagon.com/
A technology executive shares practical lessons on running AI and LLM systems in production, covering data residency in routing, reasoning-budget tuning via evals, and detecting cost drift. The writing is first-person, concrete, and grounded in measured experiments with specific numbers.
A South African-based writer shares opinion essays on digital transformation through an African lens, covering data ownership, AI deception risks, and fintech. Readers get personal, sharply argued commentary that connects global tech news to African and postcolonial history.
George News is a self-funded, ad-free investigative newsletter focused on US politics, a leaked archive of emails from the BHR whistleblower trove, and security failures in government systems. Recent issues cover a New Zealand patient-portal data exposure and a reader-funding appeal alongside a detailed look at a lawyer's business dealings.
Blog updates from the OpenSAFELY Schools project, a collaboration between the National Institute of Teaching and the Bennett Institute, on deploying a secure research platform for school and teacher data. Readers get technical and policy accounts of adapting the OpenSAFELY platform from NHS GP data to education data, including the ehrQL and SQL Runner trade-offs.
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