← The Signal 500

The 50 best tech and AI sources, ranked

Technology, research and what ships next.

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The Signal 100 in Tech & AI

#1
Daring Fireball
Gruber's influential, opinionated Apple linkblog and commentary
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10/10
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9/10
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9/10
#2
Pluralistic (Cory Doctorow)
Doctorow's daily reader-funded tech-politics polemic
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10/10
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9/10
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9/10
#3
Simon Willison's Weblog
Hands-on LLM experiments from a prolific builder
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10/10
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8/10
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9/10
#4
Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier on security, cryptography and surveillance
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10/10
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8/10
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9/10
#5
EFF Deeplinks
Digital civil liberties and privacy advocacy news
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10/10
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8/10
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8/10
#6
The Markup
Data-driven investigations into big tech and algorithms.
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9/10
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9/10
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9/10
#7
netzpolitik.org
German watchdog on digital rights and privacy policy
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10/10
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9/10
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8/10
#8
Platformer
Casey Newton on social platforms and their power.
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10/10
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9/10
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9/10
#9
Troy Hunt
Have I Been Pwned creator on breaches and privacy.
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10/10
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8/10
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8/10
#10
Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Blog
Cutting-edge academic AI research explained by Berkeley labs
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10/10
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9/10
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8/10
#11
Hugging Face Blog
Open-source ML models, tools and practitioner tutorials
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10/10
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9/10
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7/10
#12
Microsoft Research Blog
Papers and projects from Microsoft Research labs.
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10/10
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8/10
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7/10

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