Open Sourced
The hidden consequences of tech, revealed
Want to see how polarized America is? Look no further than Nextdoor.
Add spoofed emails to the pile of 2020 voter intimidation tactics.
Trump wants the FCC to help him rewrite Section 230, the law that protects the internet as we know it. But the agency isn’t that powerful.
New research shows a surprising number of police departments have the technology to break into your phone — even when it’s password protected.
A new browser setting will do what Do Not Track didn’t, but you could switch to a more private browser right now.
Respond to the census! October 15 is your last chance.
Online registration was brought back up and extended, but Virginia is not the only state this year to have technical difficulties at a crucial time.
Airlines offering Covid-19 testing show us what the future of flying might look like.
The state extended the voting registration deadline, but that won’t solve all of its issues.
Rep. Tom Malinowski has been attacked by QAnon adherents. He says Facebook’s ban isn’t nearly enough.
New York and New Jersey are the latest states to use the Apple-Google exposure notification tool.
Black voters are targeted on social media, too.
Online political ads are wildly unregulated — and increasingly important for campaigns.
Tech and our democracy are more connected than ever before.
The company just announced a tiny drone that can carry a Ring camera anywhere in your home.
QAnon is scary, but misinformation about voter fraud poses a bigger and more immediate threat to democracy.
Unless Postmaster General Louis DeJoy gets in the way.
What happens when the campaign trail is an ethernet cable?
Reid Hoffman symbolizes a bigger debate over whether Silicon Valley disruption has any place in our politics.
Mail-in ballots, safe polling locations, and fraud allegations are only a few of the concerns in the pandemic election.
During a pandemic that’s made in-person campaigning a public health hazard, influencers aren’t just fun. They’re a campaign necessity.
Enter a website address and Blacklight will tell you which trackers it has, what they do, and who else is getting your data.
Preparing for misinformation might mean decluttering your feed, or making some suggestions to your friends and family.
One pastor said he’s embraced a “TED Talk style” for his sermons because he knows that watching online can test people’s focus.
The same tech that powers Pokémon Go might make virtual meetings more like real life.
Untangling the influence of right-wing media is hard, especially with limited data.
Apple and Epic Games are at war, and Fortnite has been booted from the App Store.
Public health authorities won’t need to make their own apps in order to use Apple and Google’s exposure notification tool.
It’s not just TikTok that’s in trouble. The open internet is too.
Neuralink has demonstrated a prototype of its brain-machine interface that currently works in pigs.
Students are going back to school — but they may not have everything they need to learn.
How Palantir and Peter Thiel might lead the biggest tech IPO of the year.
Consumers have more choices than ever to protect their homes, but those choices come with trade-offs.
Beware of what you retweet.
Some conservatives were quick to spread conspiracy theories when Joe Biden announced his VP pick.
This fall, AI could be watching students social distance and checking their masks.
In an interview with Recode, Rep. Jackie Speier calls on the company to do an internal audit of misogyny on its platform.
Virginia is the first US state to come out with an app that uses Bluetooth-based tech, nearly three months after its release.
The Senate’s biggest privacy hawk talks about Section 230 and sending Mark Zuckerberg to prison.
New legislation would require that companies get your consent before taking your biometric data.