Read me first Technology Guardian columns from Nick Carr, Seth Finkelstein and Andrew Brown.
Charlie's Country review — slow indictment of a colonialist relationship Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil's latest collaboration explores the tension between white law and Indigenous people
The battle is on against Facebook and co to regain control of our files Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier: Our use of social networking, as well as iPhones and Kindles, relinquishes control of how we delete files – we need that back
People understand risks – but do security staff understand people? Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier: Natural human risk intuition deserves respect – even when it doesn't help your security team
A spot of schoolboy wish-fulfilment Review: Unplayable by Simon Rae If I am any judge, young boys will read this book and like it a lot, says Nicholas Lezard
Facebook should compete on privacy, not hide it away Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier: From a business perspective, social networking sites don't want their members to exercise their privacy rights very much
The moral quandary of involving Wikipedia in online 'censorship' Seth Finkelstein The suppression of news about a reporter's disappearance saw the New York Times and Wikipedia work together – but raises issues about control of information
Wireless Review: Wireless by Charles Stross This omits several of Stross's strong recent stories, but the best stories here are very good, says Eric Brown
Google isn't making us dumb – or smart. That's the problem Andrew Brown Andrew Brown: Far from dumbing us down, the constant ebb and flow of information on the internet is forcing us to change our habits
Raising the cost of paperwork errors will improve accuracy Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier: Paperwork errors are part of the modern world but could raising the cost of mistakes help to rid us of them?
Far too often, new media serves up popularity without accuracy Seth Finkelstein Seth Finkelstein: Check your serving of online news for factual accuracy before you give it a taste
Why buying secondhand should become part of the PC process Andrew Brown Buying a secondhand PC shouldn't leave you searching for the processing power you want
Be careful when you come to put your trust in the clouds Bruce Schneier Read me first: Cloud computing may represent the future of computing but users still need to be careful about who is looking after their data, says Bruce Schneier
Do commercial pressures outweigh artistic ideals at Wikipedia? Seth Finkelstein Read me first: When do commercial pressures affect ideals? Testing that proposition was an unexpected result of the 'Wikipedia Art' project, says Seth Finkelstein
It's a puzzle: why don't more of us burst the bubble of online ads? Andrew Brown Users will install software to do something fun and worthwhile, but they won't change software just to make computers less annoying
We shouldn't poison our minds with fear of bioterrorism Bruce Schneier Terrorists attacking our food supply is a nightmare scenario that has been given new life during the recent swine flu outbreak.
Twitter is a sucker's game that only serves the needs of a tiny elite Seth Finkelstein People aren't being connected by the 'real-time messaging service', they're being bundled up and sold
The Sun ain't gonna shine on OpenOffice any more Andrew Brown The takeover of Sun by Oracle should concentrate our minds on what open-source software means, says Andrew Brown
How the great Conficker panic hacked into human credulity Bruce Schneier Conficker's April Fool's joke is a good case study on how we think about risks, says Bruce Schneier
Shutdown of Wikia Search proves empty rhetoric of collaboration Seth Finkelstein The shutdown of Wikia Search – an attempt to apply Wikipedia-style ideas to create an open source, commercial search engine – came as no surprise to informed observers
Madeleine Peyroux: Bare Bones One of the few singers who can make me keep replaying a track just to hear her intone one word, says John Fordham
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