MyMove Is the US Government’s Shittiest Website
…USPS 20 times before they got their foot in the door. Even after they caught the attention of postal officials, their proposal was bogged down in government processes, privacy concerns, and a…
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Meta Glasses Are Comfortable, Functional, and Make My Spouse Recoil in Fear
…Even if you’re not concerned that face recognition will allow Meta to target immigrants or enable stalkers to find their victims, at the very least, people really do not like the…
You Can Disable Gemini in Chrome if It’s Freaking You Out
Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not…
Meta Cafeteria Workers Did What Execs Won’t: Took on ICE and Won
…In December, Mbengue’s colleagues launched a fundraising campaign to pay for the legal defense of his brother, who came to the US in 2023 to escape challenging circumstances in Senegal. As…
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
…US Central Command now confirms it has received “multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil US personnel in theater”—the first official acknowledgment that the…
They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
…of its kind—few others were paying attention to mobile security at the time. A year after its launch, Chris Soghoian, then a principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, called…
Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini
…It’s less a question of timing and more a question of doing it right, and in a way that’s respectful of users. Google recently launched Personal Intelligence in Gemini and…
A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress
…So when there was all this reporting before the inauguration about Elon Musk coming in with DOGE, and he wants to launch X Money, which is a payments platform—I was worried…
The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
…It's meant to be a middle ground between app timers and more restrictive tools like the Brick, which disables an app from launching once you've tapped your phone on the…
I Typed On a Concrete Keyboard—And Loved It
…During my time with this keyboard, it gathered quite a few smudges and stains, nearly all of which had unknown-to-me origins. Maybe they came from cleaning sprays, or from something…