Technology
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.
The justices risk miring the entire federal judiciary in the content moderation wars.
To find out who did, look all the way back to the start of the story.
The battle over how large language models can use published works is just beginning. Copyright law isn’t ready.
Your local meteorologist is always going to be more accurate than a weather app.
Elon Musk and the other platform owners aren’t entirely to blame for misinformation around the Israel-Hamas conflict.
It’s a lot more than Verizon treating all broadband traffic equally.
Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is easy to find online. Here’s how to avoid spreading it.
AI will play a major role in how children born today experience the world. It’s up to us whether that’s for the better, or the worse.
Europe’s probe into harmful content on X about the Israel-Hamas war tests a new law that could reshape the internet.
Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard, after dodging roadblocks from several government agencies around the world.
Former FCC chair Tom Wheeler has a few ideas for how to regulate the “Digital Gilded Age.”
A “limited number” of customers’ Social Security numbers were taken.
Castor oil won’t dissolve cysts and tumors. Some creators on TikTok Shop are earning commissions by suggesting otherwise.
Why the FTC is going after your Prime subscription (and a few other things).
The Federal Trade Commission, led by longtime Amazon critic Lina Khan, finally makes its move.
Remember when Netflix’s competitors, like Warner Bros., kept their biggest stuff on their own streaming services? That’s so 2021.
The FCC is cracking down on space litterbugs, starting with Dish Network.
Social media is our public diary — and it’s only getting more intimate.
Hungry for money, hackers in Vietnam have hacked into thousands of Meta accounts.
A rogue federal court effectively put the Republican Party in charge of social media, and now the justices have to deal with this mess.
Linda Yaccarino used to sell TV advertising. Selling Elon Musk is a whole different deal.
The founders of Anthropic quit OpenAI to make a safe AI company. It’s easier said than done.
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have a vision for generative AI. Will it work?
How to buy a new phone for less without paying more.
Lachlan Murdoch will be formally in charge of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and everything else his father built and bought. For now.
The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.
AI doesn’t have to be superintelligent to cause serious havoc.
Exclusive: 63 percent of Americans want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI, a new poll reveals.
Microsoft was first to AI search, but Google’s Bard can now pull stuff in from Gmail, Docs, Maps, and more.
Tap-to-pay makes spending money fun, easy, and virtually invisible.
A new study shows how anti-vaxxers quickly regroup when Facebook removes vaccine misinformation.
California’s new Right to Repair Act can’t magically make Apple’s popular earbuds good for the environment.
The new Shop feature appears to be transforming the entire app experience.
The Massachusetts senator explains why we need an FCC for Big Tech.
In Walter Isaacson’s buzzy new biography, Elon Musk emerges as a callous, chaos-loving man without empathy.
Apple is going to sell us $3,500 headsets next year. It still hasn’t said why.
The dehumanizing philosophy of AI is built on a hatred of our animal nature.
From R.U.R. to Mrs. Davis, humans have feared — and identified with — robots for over a century.
Fiction has long wondered if AI can love. We just might find out.
It’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old.