Cyber Security

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

If it wasn’t already obvious, the last 72 hours have made it crystal clear that it is urgent to build…

6 months ago

Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump

Shortly after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, many Facebook users…

6 months ago

Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users’ Broad Location

An issue with Cloudflare allows an attacker to find which Cloudflare data center a messaging app used to cache an…

6 months ago

The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds

A powerful AI tool can predict with high accuracy the location of photos based on features inside the image itself—such…

6 months ago

The Moon Got Obliterated and Lost a Bunch of Craters

Welcome back to the Abstract!  This week, we’re going to the movies. For 77 hours straight. At the end, we’ll…

6 months ago

Behind the Blog: The TikTok Ban and Joyless AI

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of…

7 months ago

Opting Out of Gmail’s Gemini AI Summaries Is a Mess. Here’s How to Do It, We Think

This week, Google shoved various capabilities from Gemini, its AI tool, into Workspaces for Business and Enterprise customers, including associated…

7 months ago

Donald Trump Has Mark Zuckerberg By the Balls

Mark Zuckerberg can see the finish line. He is so close to getting what he has wanted for years. The…

7 months ago

Nokia’s Weird Y2K Designs Show the Future We Could Have Had

One of my first cellphones was a Nokia 3310. I still miss it: Launched in 2000, it was a solid…

7 months ago

Meta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump’s Mass Deportations

With Meta’s recent speech policy changes regarding immigration, in which the company will allow people to call immigrants pieces of…

7 months ago