9 Rules for New Technology: Wendell Berry’s list of what new technologies should provide for us.

The World’s Largest Search Engine Doesn’t Want You to Search: Google would just love you to stay on its own site.

A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store: They aren’t allowed to stop apps offering non-app store commission ways of paying elsewhere.

A week after a major hack brought down 4chan and doxxed all its users, it seems like it may be dead for good

The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case: ‘Facebook is being watched, and it cannot be as cavalier about its efforts to monopolize markets.’

Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over: Who needs actual friends when you’ve got “the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world and discovering what’s going on”.

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

Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat: ‘The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother…’

Parents must make tough choices on smartphones, says children’s commissioner for England: ‘As adults we are ourselves dopamine-addicted, stuck in a cycle of scrolling yet we still have no idea of what our children are seeing.’

Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools: ‘A rise in misogyny and racism is flooding UK schools as pupils ape the behaviour of figures such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate after exposure through social media and online gaming, teachers have warned.’

OpenAI is building a social network: More competition is better, but why is it always the torment nexus companies that want to do this?

OpenAI ships GPT-4.1 without a safety report: Self-regulation doesn’t work shocker.

She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said: Is your cab listening to you?

Apple said to be flying iPhones from India to US to avoid Trump tariffs: It’s estimated that iPhones would cost $3500 if they were made in the US.

We’ve built a society on bullshit and emojis.: ‘Today’s reality is the result of actively practicing and engaging in pseudo humanity.’

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill: Why do I feel this won’t end well?

How the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat: Mike Waltz saved his number under the wrong contract on his phone.

‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams : ‘Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.’