How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. They’re important enough to government investigations

There are myriad ways that law enforcement can access the content or other metadata of push notifications. Let’s fix that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Good on @techcrunch.com and @rebeccabellan.bsky.social for publishing the full transcript of her interview with Aron D'Souza about his new "journalism integrity" startup: techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/f...

"And what doesn’t really come across in all these memes is it’s a heartbreaking story... It’s a deranged penguin." - Werner Herzog to @knguyen.bsky.social on the DHS using a clip from Encounters at the End of the World, in @tinanguyen.bsky.social Regulator this week www.theverge.com/column/91262...

Werner Herzog is in IMAX, on AI, and over 3D The director talks about the restoration of Cave of Forgotten Dreams

[Very Herzog voice] “All what I’ve seen so far is dead on arrival. Slick and well made, but completely dead. It does not acquire the soul of poetry.” - on gen AI video

“I do not intentionally post anything that I do not believe.”

If you liked reading this, check out Vee's newsletter The Optimizer, where she digs into the health and "wellness" tech, trends, and products that promise to change your life. (Do they though?) www.theverge.com/optimizer-ne...

A year of continuous glucose monitoring pushed me to the edge My year of unrest and CGMs.

For a year, @vicmsong.bsky.social tested and researched continuous glucose monitors to find out what they could actually do for non-diabetics. Why MAHA is obsessed with CGMs, why doctors are confused, and why too much data made Vee spiral:

Here's a rundown of what happened when Grammarly used our staff's likenesses for their janky AI "experts" feature

Sung to the tune of Junior Senior's Move Your Feet:

Can't stop (can't stop) can't stop the slop.
Suno won't stop (won't stop) won't stop stealing pop.

I'm glad Jonathan is alive

If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, anyone with a link can view your notes by default
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

"The future of being trans on the internet" series, unpaywalled

Made the call a while ago that I won’t be writing much about the series itself, but it was important to spell things out now that Warner Bros. is cranking the hype machine up

Rank the 50 best Apple products Pick your favorite Apple product...if you can.

Good morning, here you can rank Apple's best 50 products by clicking this or that click click click

Online user reviews: “a middle-man scam made to steal your info,” “useless enshitification of USPS,” and “one of the worst experiences I have come across. It’s straight up predatory.”

Check.

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

This company is scraping your Zoom meetings and turning them into AI podcasts without permission. Extremely wild and weird www.404media.co/this-company...

The one where Superhuman CEO tells @reckless.bsky.social he should voluntarily upload his editor manifesto for Grammarly to make an AI clone of him, but it's ok - “you don’t really need to replicate yourself the way you would be in person"

www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer A sick dog, desperate owner, and a bunch of chatbots made for a great story. The actual science was much messier.

On today’s episode of “ChatGPT didn’t do that”

The CEO "described the system as a kind of 'MVP,' minimum viable product, of an uploaded animal, one with 'lots of limitations.' I don’t quite know how to picture a minimum viable fly. It’s a fly, not an app." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

This is not a fly uploaded to a computer C’est ne pas une fly.

Viral claim on X: This is a "real uploaded animal" with “91% behavior accuracy”

@theroberthart.bsky.social with @shahabbakht.bsky.social @asbates.bsky.social @anayebi.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social: Is it though?

Apparently you can't just say shit like "Geese sound like the Strokes coming out of a toilet" to @terrenceobrien.bsky.social because he'll immediately tell you exactly which 10 bands sound like the Strokes coming out of a toilet

"You ... identified this as one of the 'craziest' grants at NEH... Why did you do that?"
"Because it explicitly says LGBTQ."

PSA: Don’t buy a $4,400 gray market Samsung TriFold on eBay Please stick to the sellers and the stores that you’re used to.

Look what you made us do samsung

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How the experts figure out what’s real in the age of deepfakes The Guardians of Reality.

The monthly subscription is currently on sale for $5. The free-to-read articles swap out every day at 1pm. Now this is free to read.

It's too late to teach the "AI barons" reading comprehension
pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...

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