Tech Dissent Digest - May 9, 2025
Welcome to the first edition of the Tech Dissent Digest: Independent thinking for an independent web. A weekly digest of Big Tech news with solutions to fight back. Hope you're having a great week, let's get started.
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This week in the news.
PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom, but now schools say they are being extorted | TechCrunch
Schools in Toronto and North Carolina are reporting extortion attempts.
Zack Whittaker
Report: DOGE supercharges mass-layoff software, renames it to sound less dystopian
Report: DOGE software automates layoffs, slashing biggest agencies in a blink.
Ashley Belanger
Apple: “Hundreds of millions to billions” lost without App Store commissions
Argues that recent “extraordinary Order” is punishment, not based on findings.
Kevin Purdy
Ways to Dissent:
Grist
Google Sheets holds budgets, expenses, contacts you name it. It's time to own your own data. Self-hosting a Grist instance ensures you know how your data is used and who's viewing it. Another similar visual database is NocoDB
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