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Harden Your iPhone: The Settings That Make You More Expensive
In December 2024, the Federal Trade Commission caught a data broker called Mobilewalla holding more than 500 million advertising IDs paired with…
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Harden Your Android: The Settings That Make You Expensive
A guide to the settings you can change on your Android phone to make tracking you more expensive, make your data less profitable.
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The Leonardo Patent That Turns Your Devices Into a Location Fingerprint and Forecasts Where You'll Go Next
A defense contractor already built a system that reads the devices in your pockets as you drive past a camera. Then it patented something worse: finding…
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The Architecture of Visibility: How Meta Made Political Speech Disappear Without Banning It
If you joined Instagram after February 9, 2024, you have never seen a political post from an account you don’t follow surface in your discovery feeds…
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No Warrant Required: How a Social Media Post Becomes a Federal Threat
A poll worker in Syracuse posted that the agent who killed Renée Good should be indicted. Five months later, two federal agents arrived with a dossier …
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Make Yourself Expensive: A Field Guide to Shrinking Your Data Footprint
Asked under oath last week whether he would commit to not buying Americans’ location data without a warrant, the Director of the FBI declined.
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The Power the Pope Warned About Has a Guest List
The Thiel's Dialog group leak reveals a private power outside the institutions meant to govern it
Jun 19
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The SAVE Database at 97%:
How a 3% Error Rate Could Become Millions of Ignored Votes
Jun 16
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They Said the Quiet Part in June
The Battle Between Anthropic and the Administration Takes a New Turn as Fable is Taken offline — For Now.
Jun 15
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Caesar’s Stablecoin?
Trump posted his face as the Christ and gilded it at a golf course. Now he wants a federal charter for a coin that bears his name.
Jun 14
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The 91 Percent
How an FPDS Audit Revealed the Architecture of Defense-AI Procurement
Jun 13
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The Recusal That Wasn’t
The Army's No. 2 swore he was "recused, writ large" from his former employer Anduril. The document he'd signed did much less. Then Anduril won $20…
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