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Stories about who is collecting your data, what they do with it, and the tools, laws and settings that help you take some of that control back.
A new NeuroImage study scanned 56 people while they watched short videos. When a clip landed, two of the brain’s cognitive control hubs went quiet. Here is exactly what that shows, and the four things it does not.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on August 18 and auto-enrolls anyone it thinks is under 18. The guardrails are real, the age check is a guess, and reporters had it writing a full homework essay within hours.
Zak, Zelda and Cody Williams brought their father’s dormant Instagram account back online to reclaim his likeness from AI generated video. The move works as a cultural statement. Legally, it does almost nothing, and that is the real story.
Privacy researchers are urging women in 13 US states to drop cycle tracking apps. The catch is that uninstalling does nothing to the copy on the company servers. Here is what these apps collect, what actually deletes it, and which apps never send it anywhere.
Flock says it operates more than 120,000 license plate cameras across 49 states. Crowdsourced maps have verified tens of thousands of them, down to the pole. The result is a country where you can now look up what is watching your commute, and a growing list of councils cancelling their contracts.
France’s Constitutional Council struck down the under-15 social media ban on August 14, weeks before it was due to take effect. The ruling was not about whether kids should be online. It was about how broadly the law was written and how badly it handled age verification.
Google removes every remaining Manifest V2 extension from the Chrome Web Store on August 31, and Edge began the same rollout this month. Here is what breaks, why the Manifest V3 replacement is weaker, and which browsers still run uBlock Origin at full power.
Apple sent threat notifications to users in 110 countries on August 13, and for the first time the warning lands on the iPhone Lock Screen. Here is what the alert means, how to spot a fake, and the six things to do in the first hour.
A flaw in Zoom’s annotation feature let any meeting participant run code on another participant’s device with no clicks and no warning. The researchers who found it needed fewer than 20 AI prompts and less than a day.
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the CHATBOT Act, and two more AI chatbot bills for kids on August 5. Here’s what each one requires, and why child safety groups, privacy advocates, and Big Tech all reacted differently.