When Online Content Disappears: On link-rot - ‘A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible’

Okay, so age verification is pretty painless. It’s still not a good thing. At all.: ‘It doesn’t work. It’s intrusive. It creates new vulnerabilities.’

Why RSS matters: RSS has always seemed like one of the increasingly few unconditionally good aspects of the internet to me.

The Majority AI View: Perhaps there’s a silent majority who think that we should just treat it as a “normal technology”?

ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web: Bad UI, doesn’t actually let you see the web, and uses you as a way to snaffle up data it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds: “their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.”

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.