Welcome to Kernel Panic!, the weekly newsletter where Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess take you inside the strange and fast-moving world of privacy and digital security. If you’ve ever…
There is something almost poetic about a data release that arrives not as a sterile spreadsheet, but as a time capsule of human curiosity.…
For four years, Cassidy Hutchinson has lived in a strange, suspended space between history and scandal. She was a young White House aide, barely…
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You’ve heard it a thousand times: buying a new car is one of the worst financial moves you can make. The moment you drive…
There is a particular unease that settles in when a beloved television institution decides to stop being merely entertainment and becomes a kind of…
For the longest time, it felt like MacBooks had completely stolen the show. And honestly, who could blame them? Laptop performance has gotten so…
There’s something about the final hours of Amazon Prime Day that makes you feel like you’re standing in front of a vending machine with the snack stuck halfway—you know you…
If you’ve ever found yourself standing in an aisle or scrolling through endless tabs online, just wanting a pair of earbuds that won’t break the bank or fall out during…
Growth in tech is oddly simple and painfully competitive at the same time. Simple because the path is clear: get in front of the…
The recent ruling by US District Court Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall declaring the FBI's warrantless searches of US citizens' communications under Section 702 of…

Lottie Weaver was doing what millions of people do every day: scrolling through TikTok, half-watching videos, letting the algorithm carry…
Paragraph 1: The Illusion of Accountability Leah Feiger’s observation cuts to the heart of a deeply uncomfortable truth about power…
The Human Side of the PERM Crackdown: What Microsoft’s Suspension Really Means for Skilled Immigrants The Trump administration has made…
Imagine being a hospital technician faced with a wall of screens showing the brainwaves of dozens of patients, each one…
Jessica Hische has spent her career doing something increasingly rare in the digital age: making letters by hand. A celebrated…
We’ve all felt that quiet frustration when we pay our taxes in full and on time, only to suspect that…
A year ago, the promise of artificial intelligence felt like a strange paradox. On one hand, AI was supposedly coming…
If you’re the kind of person who wants the best phone Samsung makes, you’re probably an Ultra kind of person.…
For most of its public life, artificial intelligence has been a talker, not a doer. You ask a question, it…
The midterm elections are exactly one month away, and if you thought you had seen strange political seasons before, you…
In mid-December 2025, a convicted drug trafficker who had been living on borrowed time finally ran out of it. Police…
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