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.
Tech
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.
‘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.
Uber and Lyft are playing chicken with lawmakers—and the rideshare giants keep winning
Why don’t localities stand their ground against rideshare companies?
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."
$7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be NPCs
The videos borrow tactics honed for years by online erotic workers.
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.
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.
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?
Ron DeSantis’ deepfakes of Trump and Fauci are a kind of ‘fascist realism’
Deepfakes like these reinforce a grim new reality.
I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket. What followed was a thing of beauty
The judge called its defense ‘persuasive.’
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.
Amazon was cited for ‘serious’ worker safety violations. Why was the fine only $60,000?
How Amazon gets off with a slap on the wrist for systematically endangering its workers.
Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
Tech-savvy users are rallying around Mastodon — here's how it works.
The AI startup erasing call center worker accents
New software can make overseas call center workers sound American — but at what cost?
Can ‘chief vibes officers’ keep things positive amid the crypto collapse?
The goal is to shore up the vibes as prices go down.
Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project
“People looking to make money, not lose it.”
‘This can’t be real’: Grubhub promotion turns New York City restaurants into a ‘war zone’
A food delivery platform Grubhub went badly awry – and proved there’s really no such thing as a free lunch.
Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like
How Elon Musk makes Chinese workers put in hours that would be unacceptable elsewhere.
