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The Best Global Tech Stories of 2023 ⇥ restofworld.org

I have previously linked to Bloomberg’s annual “jealousy list” of articles from other outlets they wish they had published; it is mostly an excuse to ask about the Supermicro fiasco.

This year, though, no snark and no Bloomberg. This year, Rest of World — a website you really ought to be reading, if I may be so bold — published its own list of great stuff from other publications. I like the international focus of the articles this list, even though most of them are from U.S. outlets.

In addition to the aforelinked Zeke Faux story, my favourites from this list are John Herrman’s look at Temu, Rebecca Tan and Regine Cabato’s investigation of A.I. training for the Washington Post, and Vox’s Izzie Ramirez explaining why everything you buy is a little worse now. Happy reading.

Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2021 Jealousy List ⇥ bloomberg.com

Every year, Bloomberg Businessweek’s writers and editors select stories from other publications they wish they had written. I love the concept, and this year’s “Jealousy List” is full of stuff I want to read.

In linking to the 2020 list, I said that I will be jealous of the person or publication who can fully explain the now-infamous “Big Hack” feature: the dubious story of Chinese intelligence surreptitiously implanting chips on the boards of servers made by Supermicro. But that was last year; now there are two questionable stories involving multiple intrusion techniques, a decade of spycraft, dozens of companies, several U.S. government agencies — and the only journalists anywhere who can report even a hint of this are Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley of Bloomberg. I would love to know the story behind that.

Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2020 Jealousy List ⇥ bloomberg.com

If you are lucky enough to get a few days’ downtime this year and you are looking for something to read, you could do a lot worse than picking through Bloomberg’s annual Jealousy List. It is full of great things published by other outlets, which is just as well because this year marked the second anniversary of the so-far unexplained “Big Hack” story. You know who I am jealous of? Whoever gets the full scoop on how that article was published, how criticism was handled internally, and why Bloomberg has remained entirely silent about it.

Anyway, there are some good stories on this list.