Shining a Spotlight on Digital Rights Heroes: EFF Awards 2025

It’s been a year full of challenges, but also important victories for digital freedoms. From EFF’s new lawsuit against OPM and DOGE, to launching Rayhunter (our new tool to detect cellular spying),…

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages – Krebs on Security

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on GitHub,…

Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: Discreet and intuitive

I’ve been testing smart glasses for almost a decade. And in that time, one of the questions I’ve been asked the most is “oh, but can you see anything in…

Why OpenAI’s Solution to AI Hallucinations Would Kill ChatGPT Tomorrow

OpenAI’s latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up—known in the world of artificial intelligence as “hallucination.” It also reveals why the…

The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work

This week, the Trump administration released a strategy for improving the health and well-being of American children. The report was titled—you guessed it—Make Our Children Healthy Again. It suggests American…

Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sept. 10

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections:…

Apple says the iPhone 17 comes with a massive security upgrade

It’s less noticeable than a thinner profile or trick camera lenses, but Apple is pointing out another upgrade in the iPhone 17 family of phones that it says is part…

New iPhones use Apple N1 wireless chip—and we’ll probably start seeing it everywhere

Apple’s most famous chips are the A- and M-series processors that power its iPhones, iPads, and Macs, but this year, its effort to build its own wireless chips is starting…