Claims that NSO’s Pegasus spyware helps Israel find hostages are ‘nonsense,’ experts say
The infamous Israeli surveillance tool would be easily foiled by Hamas kidnappers.
Tech
California’s new right to repair law fails to stop the ‘parts pairing’ loophole
Companies including Apple use a little-known technique to make third-party repairs harder than they need to be.
‘We do not have fast companies anymore’: Cory Doctorow on where tech went wrong, and how to fix it
The writer and activist shares strategies to combat Big Tech's boring dystopia.
Private prison company GEO pivoted to tech, and it’s raking in hundreds of millions
Rights advocates say the electronic monitoring program is really a kind of “e-carceration."
$7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be NPCs
The videos borrow tactics honed for years by online erotic workers.
Exclusive: TSA to expand its facial recognition program to over 400 airports
AI-ethics advocates say there’s evidence the program is already violating travelers’ consent.
Could a new law pry open the black boxes of social media giants?
PATA could force social media platforms to hand over data about their inner workings.
I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket. What followed was a thing of beauty
The judge called its defense ‘persuasive.’
Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them
The Signal president on why labor organizing still matters.
Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
Tech-savvy users are rallying around Mastodon — here's how it works.
The AI startup erasing call center worker accents
New software can make overseas call center workers sound American — but at what cost?
Can ‘chief vibes officers’ keep things positive amid the crypto collapse?
The goal is to shore up the vibes as prices go down.
Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project
“People looking to make money, not lose it.”
What did I just buy? I tried to use New York’s first NFT vending machine
How the world’s first NFT vending machine lets you lose money in person.
The workers who sued Uber and won
Former Uber driver James Farrar on why we must treat digital rights as worker rights.
