This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss messy Tea and our first livestreamed event. SAM: We had an awesome time hanging out with a couple hundred of our Angeleno friends at Rip.Space on Wednesday!…
We start this week with Jason’s story about Flock exposing a bunch of AI-powered cameras. These cameras zoom in on people as they walk by, sometimes so closely you can read what’s on their phone screen. After the break, we talk about some of our biggest stories this year. In the subscribers-only section, we give…
Amazon’s recent decision to stop allowing people to download copies of their Kindle e-books to a computer has vindicated some of my longstanding beliefs about digital media. Specifically, that it doesn’t exist and you don’t own it unless you can copy and access it without being connected to the internet. The recent move by the…
AI is transforming cybersecurity by enhancing defences and empowering attackers with new, sophisticated tools.
President Trump has signed an executive order aimed at reshaping the United States’ approach to artificial intelligence (AI) policy.
An AI startup promises to call your elderly parents for you if you don’t have time, or simply don’t want to, and we tested out the service. Called inTouch, the service uses an AI generated voice so your parent receives a phone call in which they can talk to the AI about, for example, how…
What if your coworkers were AI? What if AI agents, not humans, monitored security camera feeds? What if you had an AI tech recruiter to find motivated candidates, or an entirely autonomous recruiting firm? What if UPS, but AI, or finance, but DeepMind? Does that sound like absolute hell on Earth? Well, too bad, because…
We start this week’s episode with our massive story on TeleMessage, the Signal clone the Trump administration uses to archive messages which was hacked. We have more detail than anyone else on that story. After the break, Jason tells us about another hack, this time GlobalX Air, one of the airlines used by ICE for…
The past few years have been very exciting for those who want to believe. The U.S. government has released tantalizing videos and held several gripping hearings showing and discussing UFOs. People who always thought the government was hiding evidence of alien life from the general population saw it as proof that what they’ve said was…
Participating in interactive adult live-streams or ordering custom porn clips are about to be punishable by a year in prison in Sweden, where a new law expands an already-problematic model of sex work criminalization to the internet. Sex work in Sweden operates under the Nordic Model, also known as the “Equality,” “Entrapment,” or “End Demand…
