RIP to the Google Privacy Sandbox: Third-party cookies will continue in Chrome.

A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse: Money to help find and fix those sometimes-critical bugs.

Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children

Napster Just Sold For $207 Million. Yes, That Napster. And It’s Headed Straight Into The Metaverse: Napster is not what is used to be.

The 2025 journalist’s digital security checklist: Some good ideas in here even if you’re not a journalist.

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances: Fixed but admins would need to update.

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28: They’re disabling the ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings' setting of your Echo.

Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone right now?: It’s worth taking precautions, as a minimum.

Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers: Via tricking people into using the linked devices feature to devices they don’t own.

As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them: The incredible work of the folk at the Internet Archive.

What happens when the internet disappears?: For so many links, the internet is not forever.

The World’s Most Invasive Apps: I’m not particularly convinced by the methodology, but, even so, hardly a surprise Meta apps come out as particularly terrible for keeping your personal data private.

Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia’s Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds: ‘…it is very scary to make yourself 100% dependent on the goodwill of the American government merely because it is convenient’

How to survive being online: You can use the internet without being Very Online, as they say.

Smartphones Are Hot: A decade-old take on ‘What would Marshall McLuhan make of the smartphone?’

Google Maps turns 20, adds AI features, new countries to beat Apple: Next month sees Google Maps' 20th year anniversary; it is kind of hard to imagine life without this type of software.

Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South: Due to new state-level age verification laws.