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…The Facebook/ Meta Disruption , Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath brought us inside the company that’s determined how the world interacts and communicates online. How has Meta shaped our relationships, and what…
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Marathon’s second season is a chance for Bungie to turn things around
Earlier this month, I finally achieved the elusive goal I had set for myself in Bungie’s Marathon. I collected six of the game’s rarest items, allowing me to attempt and…
The next YouTube phenomenon hitting the big screen
…e-reading community. (And the center of some interesting drama — I have a story on that coming soon.) The person at the center of CrossPoint is Justin Mitchell, a developer I’ve…
A better way to manage all your screenshots
…Pool, which is finally out of beta, is exactly that — a way to bookmark and do things with anything you see on your screen. It starts by grabbing and sorting all your…
The heist of iOS 26
…The videos didn’t get everything right; Some of the finer details were different when Apple finally released the software in June at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The final software wasn…
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
…An Irish company called Cannabis Club Systems (CCS), formally Nefos Solutions, develops and provides the software these clubs use for sales, accounting, and admissions, including a verification system where receptionists upload your…
Christian content creators are outsourcing AI slop to gig workers on Fiverr
In the beginning, platforms like Fiverr were places where people could hire freelancers to do specialized creative labor using skills that took years to develop. In the age of generative AI, though…
Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet
In January, Colorado lawmakers introduced a proposal to make operating systems collect users’ ages and pass them to app developers. The bill, SB26-051, had clearly been designed for commercial platforms like…
The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion
…But back then, the tech to create artificial life didn’t exist. “Finally, I get to do what I originally set out to do. It’s not just about building cool animatronics…
Internet Culture
…The ways in which we communicate, create, and live with each other have been radically altered by the internet’s powerful connective tissues, from the platforms we inhabit, like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube…