Meta makes private chats public, airlines fund surveillance, and OpenAI fights (unsuccessfully) to keep its privacy promises.
Chatbots are under legal scrutiny, Apple’s handing over your push alerts, and one AI just wants everyone to get along.
This week: how to trick yourself into putting down your phone.
Surveillance tech expands, 23andMe cashes out, and a conductor finds his rhythm again.
Can OpenAI, TikTok & SoundCloud make amends? Meanwhile, KOSA faces backlash and the FTC hits pause on Click-to-Cancel.
If AI can record you, undress you, and monetize you...what protections do you have? Here's where we're at.
Meta drops a new AI app while listening through your Ray-Bans, Texas bans social media for kids, and dating apps get real(er).
Musk uses free speech shield to protect deepfakes, families hold vigil at Meta HQ, and new grants from Harry and Meghan will fuel a movement for a safer internet.
Meta faces Congress, ChatGPT plays detective, and one lab asks if AI chatbots can be bullies.
GPT 4.5 officially passes the Turing Test, a human ditches his smartphone for good, and state bills starts treating Big Tech like Big Tobacco.
Apple quietly disables iCloud encryption in the UK. The Light Phone adds a camera. NICUs add livestreams for peace of mind.
Protect your DNA in a post-23andMe world, decode Utah’s latest tech regulation, and meet the app trying to make social media civil again.
