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select all Oct. 5, 2018

Talking With the Man Whose Techno-Thriller Is Based on a China Supply-Chain HackAugust Cole and P.W. Singer’s 2015 book Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War just got a whole lot scarier.

By Jake Swearingen

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Either Bloomberg or Apple and Amazon Are Badly Wrong About the China Hack StorySomebody is wrong, and it’s driving me crazy trying to figure out who — and why.

By Jake Swearingen

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The Facebookification of Instagram Has BegunThe newest features from the platform feel out of touch for Instagram but old hat for Facebook.

By Madison Malone Kircher

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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Desperately Wants to Be a Zelda GameThe newest game in the series offers a lot of meaningless choices.

By Brian Feldman

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Hoo Boy, China May Have Hacked Apple, Amazon, and Dozens MoreTiny microchips implanted on motherboards used in servers by Apple, Amazon, and over 30 other companies are now under intense scrutiny.

By Jake Swearingen

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Trump ‘Texting’ the Entire Country Was Already the NormThursday’s FEMA alert test was strangely chill.

By Madison Malone Kircher

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Holy Crap, Am I a Microsoft Surface Fanboy?They’re the laptops that Apple should be making.

By Jake Swearingen

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Hey, Just a Reminder That Facebook Revealed a Huge Data Breach Last WeekThe company is doing the bare minimum to notify affected users.

By Brian Feldman

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Facebook Has Everything GE Once Had, Except JobsWhile GE has lost the equivalent of Facebook’s market valuation since 2018, it also employs ten times as many people as Facebook.

By Jake Swearingen

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Justice Department Sues California Over Net-Neutrality LawJeff Sessions was ready and waiting.

By Brian Feldman

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Can You Believe How Many Women Own This One-of-a-Kind Couch?Inside a Soho penthouse decorated entirely for Instagram influencer photo shoots.

By Madison Malone Kircher

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I Can’t Control My Social-Media Usage. But iOS 12 Can!Using technology to solve my addiction to technology. What could go wrong?

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 28, 2018

Facebook Says Hack Hit 50 Million AccountsFacebook forced 90 million users to log out of their accounts on Friday as a precaution.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all Sept. 27, 2018

SEC Sues Elon Musk for FraudIt all started when Musk tweeted a pot joke that wasn’t entirely a joke.

By Madison Malone Kircher

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How ‘Zendaya Is Meechee’ Came to BeAlso, Common is Stonekeeper.

By Brian Feldman

select all Sept. 26, 2018

If Zuck Acquires You, You’ll Feel Gross. The Only Question Is HowTwo separate products, three separate founders, two separate reasons for leaving — all with regrets about being bought (& made rich) by Zuck.

By Jake Swearingen

Sept. 26, 2018

Inside the Happiest Corner of the Internet With Instagram’s ASMR DarlingsSlimes, hot knives, and lipstick smashing — what’s not to love?

By Samantha Lee

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Fortnite Is Finally, Actually Cross-PlatformEverything syncs now.

By Brian Feldman

select all Sept. 25, 2018

Is Instagram About to Suck?Instagram’s co-founders announced a surprise departure this week.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all Sept. 25, 2018

The Bongo Cat Meme Is Our Light in the DarknessIt’s a cat, and it plays sweet music for you.

By Brian Feldman

select all Sept. 24, 2018

Why Would Google’s Ex-CEO Predict a Separate Chinese Internet?Let’s put on our tinfoil hats and read too much into what Eric Schmidt had to say about China and the future of the internet.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 21, 2018

Google’s Internal Resistance Probably Won’t Keep It Out of ChinaA cadre of Google employees managed to stop Google’s work with the U.S. military. But Google seems much more ready to keep pushing on China.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 21, 2018

Twerendipity: When Characters in Your Stories Suddenly Show Up in Your MentionsMoments of Twitter serendipity are the last glimpse of what social networks were supposed to be for.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all Sept. 21, 2018

I Wanted to Understand This Fareed Zakaria Meme. So I Talked to Waluigi.Twitter’s favorite new meme format for today goofs on Fareed Zakaria talking to Bono about populism.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 20, 2018

How Nervous Should You Be About Life Insurance That Tracks Your Health Habits?Would you share data about your health habits to save a few bucks on your insurance?

By Jake Swearingen

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Haha Sure: Amazon’s Voice-Controlled Microwave Is Here“This is so sad Alexa play dinner for one.”

By Brian Feldman

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Kanye West Is Finally Right About Something: Social Media Shouldn’t Have MetricsA rare moment of Twitter clarity from Kanye West.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all Sept. 19, 2018

E.U.’s Biggest and Baddest Antitrust Enforcer Pokes at AmazonMargrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, takes an initial look at how Amazon uses data from its marketplace.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 19, 2018

4 Possible Futures for Elon Musk and TeslaDoes Tesla motor along? Does it get acquired? Will Elon serve jail time? We do some divination for America’s weirdest CEO.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 18, 2018

Why We Love Thinking About How the President’s Penis Looks Like Toad From MarioStormy Daniels’s latest disclosure is just another part of the new normal for Mario.

By Brian Feldman

select all Sept. 18, 2018

Activate This Twitter Setting to Help Save What Remains of Your Feeble BrainSwitch to a strict chronological timeline.

By Brian Feldman

select all Sept. 17, 2018

Elon Musk Gets Sued for Calling Diver Who Rescued Cave-Trapped Boys a ‘Pedo’The billionaire tripled down on his speculation that the heroic diver was a pedophile and dared him to sue.

By Brian Feldman

select all Sept. 17, 2018

The Key to Amazon’s E-Commerce Success Is Also Its Biggest HeadacheAmazon is a platform for anyone to sell nearly anything to anyone, and is tremendously lucrative. It’s also tremendously hard to moderate.

By Jake Swearingen

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Just Clicking a Link Will Crash and Restart Your iPhoneA simple CSS-hack can instantly crash and restart your iPhone.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 14, 2018

Only 11 Percent of the State Department’s Devices Are Highly SecureEven the U.S. State Department does not use multi-factor authentication.

By Mack DeGeurin

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‘Wow Queen’: The Story Behind the Internet’s Most Famous Goofy ArtA self-taught artist created the iconic image that’s taken on a life of its own.

By Brian Feldman

select all Sept. 13, 2018

Your iPhone Is Just Another Household Appliance NowWhy a newer, slightly faster smartphone really isn’t news anymore.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 12, 2018

Reddit Bans Major QAnon Hive, r/GreatAwakeningWhere will the conspiracy theorists head now?

By Brian Feldman

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Boy, This Year’s iPhones Sure Felt Like a Letdown, Huh?iPhone ennui.

By Jake Swearingen

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How New FCC Rollbacks Could Cut Off Rural Americans From the InternetNearly 24 percent of all rural Americans reported major barriers to high-speed internet access.

By Mack DeGeurin

select all Sept. 11, 2018

U.S. Silently Enters New Age of CyberwarfareBuried beneath a mound of political scandal, the Trump administration silently rescinded key regulations limiting the use of destructive cyberweapons.

By Mack DeGeurin

select all Sept. 11, 2018

The Big Reasons Apple Is Putting Out a Big PhoneWhy Apple is going to put out a huge old honking phone.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 7, 2018

The ‘Do Yall Hear Sumn?’ Meme Cares About Not CaringA new SpongeBob meme tells users to not even bother.

By Brian Feldman

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Tesla Stock Goes Up in Smoke As Two Executives DepartBut at least Elon seems to be having fun!

By Jake Swearingen

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Elon Musk Smokes Weed, Talks Electric Planes on Joe Rogan’s PodcastBut it appears he did not inhale.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 6, 2018

Twitter Finally Bans Alex JonesApple, Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify did this weeks ago.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all Sept. 6, 2018

Cops Raid Home of Couple Who Maybe Committed GoFundMe FraudKate McClure and Mark D’Amico raised over $400,000 on GoFundMe and have since been accused of fraud.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all Sept. 5, 2018

Vague Questions and Vaguer Answers from Twitter and Facebook on Capitol HillThe first step is articulating the problem.

By Brian Feldman

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44 Percent of Young Americans Deleted Facebook From Their PhoneBetween the ages of 18 and 29? There are decent odds that you deleted the Facebook app in the past 12 months, per new numbers from Pew.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Sept. 4, 2018

Facebook Used the Philippines to Test Free Internet. Then a Dictator Was ElectedFacebook used 100 million people as a test bed for cheap internet provided by Facebook, and unwittingly helped fuel a brutal crackdown.

By Jake Swearingen

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