This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes
…When contacted by the management team, one of the remix purveyors insisted that the song was a cover and offered to share some of the royalties, but the Stick Figure team sees…
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The Screenmaxxers Who Spend Every Waking Hour on Their Phones
…On the more extreme end, there are virtual communities that share strategies for ditching smartphones and digital detox retreats where no notifications can find you. Yet there are those, like Dreiss, who…
The Gamblers Behind One of the Weirdest Cheating Mysteries in Chess Have Been Unmasked
…Outside, in a truck with a communications dish bolted to the side, teammates could pause its footage, zoom in, and see the blackjack dealer’s hidden card for a split second as…
Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
…It is shared with AI companies, their employees, hackers, subpoenas, and governments. As is always the case with unencrypted data, it will inevitably end up in the wrong hands.” Marlinspike wrote that…
Spring Cleaning? Here's How to Declutter Responsibly—and Maybe Earn Some Cash
…Who will inherit them? Do these people know? As part of your decluttering process, sticker items with people's names or write down the details in a document that you share with…
Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
…Now, in what Reid described as the most significant change to the search box in the company’s history, users are in direct communication with the latest version of Google’s Gemini…
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2026
…It can access a variety of apps to draft messages, gather photos or videos into share folders, tell you how to get tickets to an event, and pin reminders on your calendar…
Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
…Earlier this month, UK employees at Google DeepMind voted to unionize with the labor group’s parent organization, Communication Workers Union, over concerns about selling AI to the US military. Pockets of…
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
…And WIRED looked at arrests in the United Arab Emirates resulting from people sharing screenshots and other online content. And there’s more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy…
I Used Google’s New Gemini-Powered ‘Help Me Create’ Tool in Docs. It’s Great at Corporate-Speak
…This feature takes the existing “Help me write” feature in the Chrome browser even further and points to a future where humans rely on AI to craft their thoughts and share ideas…