2mos ago
Apple Hide My Email bug can expose addresses, 404 Media reports
404 Media says it verified a still-unfixed flaw that can reveal real email addresses hidden by Apple’s privacy feature.
By Mara Chen-Doyle/section
Long Reads/
2mos ago
OpenAI folds Codex into ChatGPT desktop app and ships GPT-5.6
The release adds ChatGPT Work, new GPT-5.6 models and a messy Mac app transition that leaves ChatGPT, Codex and ChatGPT...
By Theo Lindgren
2mos ago
Gruber says Ternus should pull Apple back from more ads
The Daring Fireball writer argues Apple’s App Store, News and planned Maps ads are eroding the privacy pitch Tim Cook ma...
By Theo Lindgren
2mos ago
World Cup security money expands surveillance in US host cities
FEMA funding for the 2026 tournament is paying for drones, cameras and biometric systems, raising privacy warnings from...
By Theo Lindgren
2mos ago
Trump floats US equity stakes in AI firms as OpenAI weighs 5% deal
Reports say Trump wants government stakes in AI companies, while OpenAI has proposed giving Washington 5% to ease politi...
By Theo Lindgren
2mos ago
ICE internal watchdog is investigating critics’ online posts
Wired reports ICE’s oversight office has pursued online critics, including through warning notices and administrative su...
By Theo Lindgren
2mos ago
Doctorow recasts 'dead economy' as a market failure around AI hype
Cory Doctorow argues that AI risk is less robot replacement than capital and bosses mistaking sales pitches for producti...
By Theo Lindgren
2mos ago
Doctorow argues shareholder supremacy is an accountability dodge
Cory Doctorow says Milton Friedman's profit-maximization test gives executives a tidy excuse because it cannot be proved...
By Mara Chen-Doyle
2mos ago
Doctorow says sovereign AI misses the real platform risk
Cory Doctorow argues that national AI plans do little to reduce dependence on US-controlled software, cloud services and...
By June Castellano
2mos ago
SpaceX cuts Starlink price in Memphis as xAI faces pollution suit
A half-price Starlink offer lands as civil rights and environmental groups accuse xAI of running unpermitted gas turbine...
By Theo Lindgren
2mos ago
Doctorow defines the left-right split as humans versus property
Cory Doctorow’s latest Pluralistic essay rejects “post-political” centrism and argues that the core political divide is...
By Theo Lindgren
2mos ago
Gruber argues Apple’s iOS icon rules do not belong on the Mac
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber says macOS loses useful visual information when Apple pushes iOS-style rounded-square app...
By Mara Chen-Doyle