What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced: It’s as bleak as you’d expect.

Is it safe? Is it spying? Disquiet over NHS ‘magic eye’ surveillance camera in mental health units: Including concerns that Oxevision may be being used as a substitute for, as opposed to an adjunct to, human care.

Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’: Bezos refuses to let any opinions other than his own be published in the paper he bought.

Why I regret using 23andMe: I gave up my DNA just to find out I’m British: The results weren’t exciting, and the company was in the process of imploding.

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

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada: So as “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”.

Trump Demands Social Media Accounts for Immigrants in U.S.

Musk’s xAI buys Musk’s X social media platform for $33 billion: Again?

The R-Word: Why Language Matters and How We Can Do Better

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.

America Is Done Pretending About Meat: Gone is the dream of a cruelty-free world of vegans; apparently Real Men eat raw beef testicles

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.

Rachel Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest: Based on this year’s Spring Statement.

How Terrorgram Collective Influencers Groomed a Killer: Juraj Krajčík, who shot people outside an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

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

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans: The top US national security brass, VP and all, inadvertently included a journalist in their military ops groupchat.

‘There was just wave after wave’: Gaza doctors recount horror of the last week: Israel’s airstrikes mark the end of the Gaza-Israel ceasefire arrangement.

Trump administration’s blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher: insomuch as no one can possibly think of what adding $TRUMP memecoins to the system could possibly do to help the beleaguered.

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

‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn: There’s little suggestion we’ll really know any better what to do next time.