Claims that NSO’s Pegasus spyware helps Israel find hostages are ‘nonsense,’ experts say
The infamous Israeli surveillance tool would be easily foiled by Hamas kidnappers.
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California’s new right to repair law fails to stop the ‘parts pairing’ loophole
Companies including Apple use a little-known technique to make third-party repairs harder than they need to be.
Central Park warned a festival would ruin its lawn. New York went ahead with it
The Great Lawn will be closed for months after the city held a concert in torrential rain.
‘I pulled my sock down and saw blood’: drivers for Amazon in US complain of dog attacks
Why Amazon's Flex drivers receive no worker’s compensation after a bite.
‘We do not have fast companies anymore’: Cory Doctorow on where tech went wrong, and how to fix it
The writer and activist shares strategies to combat Big Tech's boring dystopia.
‘They’re big, bad bullies’: New York’s bitter fight over a 34,000-seat cricket stadium
Is cricket truly ready to expand in the United States?
Uber and Lyft are playing chicken with lawmakers—and the rideshare giants keep winning
Why don’t localities stand their ground against rideshare companies?
New York is building the world’s tallest jail in Chinatown. Can anyone stop it?
A brutal symbol of incarceration, or the sign of an improving justice system?
Private prison company GEO pivoted to tech, and it’s raking in hundreds of millions
Rights advocates say the electronic monitoring program is really a kind of “e-carceration."
‘The police see us as disposable’: what life’s really like in New York’s maligned ‘red light district’
"People need to survive. And we’re not going anywhere."
‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol
The bills’ supporters say there’s nothing to worry about.
$7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be NPCs
The videos borrow tactics honed for years by online erotic workers.
Yu & Me Books, after the fire
"It just feels like, Oh my God, no, not again."
A DoorDash worker cursed at her over a $5 tip. Then she learned what they’re paid
A viral video becomes a lesson about the grim economics of gig work.
New York’s first Narcan vending machine Is working
In Brownsville, the city’s latest experiment in harm reduction has already stopped overdoses.
Exclusive: TSA to expand its facial recognition program to over 400 airports
AI-ethics advocates say there’s evidence the program is already violating travelers’ consent.
‘Any mistake can take your life’: the immigrant women working construction in New York
Why more immigrant women are training to be construction workers — despite the danger.
Four more people just died in an e-bike fire. If nothing changes, they won’t be the last
After yet another deadly lithium battery fire, why isn't more being done to prevent them?
Could a new law pry open the black boxes of social media giants?
PATA could force social media platforms to hand over data about their inner workings.
Ron DeSantis’ deepfakes of Trump and Fauci are a kind of ‘fascist realism’
Deepfakes like these reinforce a grim new reality.
Will America’s first ‘right to sleep outside’ actually help unhoused people?
It leaves out the one right that would actually solve homelessness: housing.
I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket. What followed was a thing of beauty
The judge called its defense ‘persuasive.’
‘It’s a failure of the system’: before Jordan Neely was killed, he was discarded
How did Jordan Neely fall through New York City's sprawling safety net?
Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them
The Signal president on why labor organizing still matters.
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