RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025
Apple released a new developer beta build of macOS 26 Tahoe today, and it came with another big update for a familiar icon. The old Macintosh HD hard drive icon,…
The Trade Deal Coup
As the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues apace, and MAGA grapples with the gaslit reality they live in, the Trump Administration continues to negotiate so-called trade deals, which are negotiated and…
Analysis: The Trump administration’s assault on climate action
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency made lots of headlines by rejecting the document that establishes its ability to regulate the greenhouse gases that are warming our climate. While the…
Murena’s Pixel Tablet is helping to wean me off Google
A lot of people are overly reliant on Google. They put all of their important messages, appointments, musings, contacts, and spreadsheets into Google products. Many are aware that Google, like…
Another Horror Story Leaks Out From Trump’s Favorite Deportation Hellhole
Anyone with the tiniest bit of humanity would have found a better way to mass deportations, if they even felt compelled to do it all. Under Trump, the extra layers…
Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked
Backlash over offensive Grok outputs continues, just a couple weeks after the social platform X scrambled to stop its AI tool from dubbing itself “MechaHitler” during an antisemitic meltdown. Now,…
OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.
OpenAI is preparing to raise what could be its final defense to stop The New York Times from digging through a spectacularly broad range of ChatGPT logs to hunt for…
Jury finds Meta broke wiretap law by collecting data from period-tracker app
A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state’s wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app without user consent. Plaintiffs…
Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco
Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that allowed threat actors to download profile information belonging to users of a third-party customer relationship…
Roku gets frugal with the content and price of its new streaming service
At a time when subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming services keep getting more expensive and their ads more extensive, Roku’s new streaming service, Howdy, is worth a closer look. Howdy launched…