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Recent Posts

No one’s ready for GDPR
Samsung's smart TVs are inserting unwanted ads into users' own movies
Welcome to hell: Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook and the slow death of the web
Paper: the next great iPad app, from the brains behind Courier
Magic AI: these are the optical illusions that trick, fool, and flummox computers
Do you have the cognitive patience to read this?
Speak, Memory
Twitter is killing off Vine
EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
The breach that killed Google+ wasn’t a breach at all
A philosopher explains how our addiction to stories keeps us from understanding history
It’s easier than you think to craft AI tools without typing a line of code
Best practices for passwords updated after original author regrets his advice
No, machines can’t read better than humans
Bad Romance
IBM didn’t inform people when it used their Flickr photos for facial recognition training
Google’s Nest changes risk making the smart home a little dumber
How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problem
Google reveals ‘Project Nightingale’ after being accused of secretly gathering personal health records
Google publishes largest ever high-resolution map of brain connectivity
Public media found its answer to Spotify in Pocket Casts
Microsoft thinks coronavirus will forever change the way we work and learn
Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids
Facebook reportedly ignored its own research showing algorithms divided users
Microsoft Teams’ new Together Mode is designed for pandemic-era meetings
Substack launches an RSS reader to organize all your newsletter subscriptions
TikTok teens’ latest passion is enterprise software
The climate controversy swirling around NFTs
Elon Musk’s Neuralink says this monkey is playing Pong with its mind
Twitter’s decentralized, open-source offshoot just released its first code
Twitter confirms it’s working on a built-in Notes feature
Microsoft partners with Meta to bring Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox to VR
The people who make your apps go to Stack Overflow for answers. Here's how it works.
Xbox's Phil Spencer says the metaverse is a "poorly built video game"
Welcome to hell, Elon - The Verge
How Kindle novelists are using ChatGPT
Inside Elon's "extremely hardcore" Twitter
BuzzFeed says it will use AI tools from OpenAI to personalize its content
I don't want to log in to your website
Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly
OpenAI co-founder on company's past approach to openly sharing research: 'We were wrong'
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
Can ActivityPub save the internet?
1Password is rolling out passkey management next month
Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
Who killed Google Reader?
Adobe created a symbol to encourage tagging AI-generated content
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content
Microsoft officially launches Loop, its Notion competitor
Bluesky posts are finally visible if you're not logged in
The rise and fall of robots.txt
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down
Hello, you're here because you compared AI image editing to Photoshop
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
Mark Zuckerberg: creators and publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI
Bluesky pitches new features at disgruntled Threads users
Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots - except the ones that pay
Google’s AI 'learning companion' takes chatbot answers a step further
Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration
Google Home hubs can now work locally thanks to Matter
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
Facebook is about to mass delete a lot of old live streams
Sesame is the first voice assistant I've ever wanted to talk to more than once
Google is killing software support for early Nest Thermostats
An AI-generated radio host in Australia went unnoticed for months
Microsoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts
Google is opening its NotebookLM AI tools to students under 18
The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
Google's latest AI model uses a web browser like you do
Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy
Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia
65daysofstatic’s new No Man’s Sky album searches for humanity in an AI-filled world
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month