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October 2026

  1. Eternal Black October
  2. North Korea Gets Away With $3 Billion From Binance
  3. Meta Executives Met to ‘Get the Academic Community to Disavow’ Jonathan Haidt
  4. Reddit Is Further Locking Itself Down
  5. A Further Status Update on the Toaster-Refrigerator Project
  6. Rest of World Faces Prospect of Shutting Down
  7. The Annoying Implementation of Translation in Safari
  8. Apple Finds Some Personality
  9. A.I. Has Made It Easy to Brute Force the Internet
  10. Australia Becomes Latest Region to Require More Competitive iOS App Distribution
  11. PHP Warns Admins to Expect Emergency Patches Tomorrow
  12. NetNewsWire Themes
  13. NetNewsWire 7.2
  14. What Is the Truth?
  15. The Last Skeuomorph in iOS?
  16. Meta Revises Its Commercial Terms of Service Again
  17. Tech Hype Is Cannibalizing the Future
  18. How Targeted Ads Become a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware
  19. Meta’s New Business Terms Appear to Supersede Opt-Outs for A.I. Training on Commercial Websites
  20. Evidence Does Not Show Decreased Russian Propaganda After Ukrainian Strikes on Yandex Data Centres
  21. Here’s to the Normal Ones
  22. W Social Makes Verified Users’ Personal Details Visible on the Open Web
  23. ‘A Man From the Future’
  24. Elevation Lab Pulls Its AirTag Silencing Product
  25. Tired of Recommendation Engines
  26. The Probably Fake Russian Troll Exodus
  27. Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff, Toadies
  28. The People Holding Up the Internet
  29. Next Year, YouTube Will Allow Testing Different Versions of the Same Video
  30. Meta Is Restricting Some Pages to Two External Links Per Month Unless They Pay Up
  31. Alberta’s ‘Wonder Valley’ Is Still Just a Thought
  32. A Betting Market for Conspiracy Theories
  33. Apple Says It Will Further Lock Down MacOS in Response to Third-Party A.I. Agents
  34. Elon Musk, Toady
  35. Semafor’s U.S. Tourism Graph Crime
  36. Silencing AirTags Enables Stalkers and Domestic Violence
  37. Google Tacitly Acknowledges the End of ChromeOS as It Launches Googlebooks

September 2026

  1. Anthropic’s Looney Tunes IPO
  2. How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centres to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
  3. Siri A.I. Is the Real Deal
  4. Muse Is What Meta Means by ‘Personal Superintelligence’
  5. About Those Property Taxes
  6. Colossus mark
  7. Apple: ‘Turn Off and Restrict Access to Apple Intelligence Features on Mac’
  8. USB 3 Speeds Finally Come to a Non-Pro iPhone
  9. With Apple Watch Eavesdropping Features, What Is at Stake Is Public Perception
  10. App Tracking Transparency Changes Coming to the European Union
  11. Apple Releases Its OS 27 Updates
  12. A.I. Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out of Control
  13. Canadian Politicians Have Launched a New Push for Data Centres
  14. Is Data Centre Criticism Sustainable?
  15. iPhone 17 Model Popularity
  16. Why Is the iPhone Duo?
  17. Live Rewind Is a Creepy Part of Apple’s Audio Intelligence Suite
  18. LG’s Smart Televisions and Displays Are Rotten
  19. The Age-Gating of History
  20. Indigo Keeps Getting Great Feature Updates
  21. FBI Probes Service Selling Tens of Millions of Drivers Licenses
  22. How Accurate Have Ed Zitron’s Predictions Been?
  23. About Half of U.S. Smartphone Owners Say They Spend Too Much Time Using It
  24. Apple’s John Ternus Era Begins

August 2026

  1. Travelling With a Separatist Alberta Group That Thinks the CBC Are ‘Federalist Scumbags’ Publishing ‘Drivel’
  2. ‘Here’s What’s Coming’
  3. Society Runs on Stimulants
  4. World’s Most Powerful Person Does a Stupid Thing About a Lake
  5. Apple Reverses Proposed Hide My Email Domain Change
  6. E.U. Privacy Organizations Launch Initiative to Kill Cookie Consent Banners​
  7. ‘Every Right on Red Frays the Social Contract a Little Further’
  8. Nitter’s Developer Says X Sent a Cease and Desist
  9. Meet Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
  10. Apple News Publisher Sign-in Required
  11. Meta Figured Out How to Build a Mac App
  12. Did Someone Wearing Meta Glasses Film You Today? Are You Sure?
  13. The U.S. Anti-China Tech Protectionism Racket From a Middle Power
  14. After Regulator’s Investigation, Apple Will Make Changes to App Tracking Transparency Prompts in Germany
  15. MacOS Golden Gate Reintroduces Buttons with Light and Shadow
  16. YouTube Will Mimic the Dishonest View Counts of Other Social Video Platforms On All Videos
  17. Annotating Mark Zuckerberg’s Latest Thought Leadership Essay
  18. Google and Our Collective Memory
  19. X’s Advertising Business Continues to Tank
  20. The End of Google Search as We Know It
  21. Judge Orders Meta to Create $567M Abatement Fund for Child Harms in New Mexico
  22. Marketers Are Hoping Brand Mentions on Reddit Will Influence Chatbots
  23. Digital-Only Media Is a Loss for Libraries, Too
  24. Who Is Legally to Blame for Autonomous A.I. Hacks?
  25. EchoFeed is Shutting Down
  26. Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits Is Leering and Traumatic
  27. A TikTok A/B Test Proves It Is Responsible for What Users See
  28. Sony Gives Its Disc-Loving Customers a Giant Middle Finger
  29. F.T.: Apple Filed a Legal Complaint in the U.K. Over Revised iCloud Backdoor Demand

July 2026

  1. OpenAI Finds Evidence It Failed to Monitor Other A.I. Agents
  2. SerpApi’s Motion to Dismiss Reddit Lawsuit Fails
  3. Fuck Everything, Says Anthropic, We Have Three Models Hacking Infrastructure
  4. How to Plant a Nuclear Plant in Iran
  5. The U.S. State Department Entirely Mislabelled a Map of Africa at the AIDS2026 Conference
  6. Hugging Face Publishes a Technical Writeup of the OpenAI Autonomous Exploit
  7. Joseph Cox Interviews Mike Yeagley
  8. Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Overturns Case Investigated and Decided Based on a Typo
  9. Chris Person Hates Adobe, and I Do Too
  10. Links to Claude Chats Were Indexed by Google and ‘Bing’, Whatever That Is
  11. Data Privacy in the U.S. Border Zone
  12. Young Adults and A.I. Use
  13. Every App a TikTok Clone
  14. Podcasts Are Growing, but That Does Not Necessarily Track for Podcast Apps
  15. Kylie Jenner Is Barely Using Her Own Meta Glasses
  16. Grain Is a Photo-First Social Network Built on AT Protocol
  17. Judge Dismisses Google’s Lawsuit Against SerpApi
  18. Google Says It Still Sends ‘Billions of Clicks’ to Websites
  19. Gurman: Apple Set to Launch Device Leasing Program
  20. Blaming Data Centres, Alberta Electricity Industry Expects Tripling of Power Prices
  21. Apple to Recap WWDC Announcements in Calgary This Week
  22. Meta Faces Tennessee Trial Over Instagram Design
  23. Copyright Is Not Enough
  24. Breach of A.I. Music Generator Suno Reveals Scraping of Music From Deezer and YouTube
  25. Permanent Daylight Saving Time
  26. And Another Thing About Squircles
  27. Amazon Will Print Book-Length A.I. Gibberish on Demand
  28. Morgan Stanley Says the ‘Space’ in SpaceX Is Worth About $8 Per Share
  29. Apple Updates Its Advertising Policies
  30. The Shape of Apps
  31. Meta’s ‘Activity from Other Businesses’
  32. Lies Told About Data Centres
  33. Stories Told About Data Centres
  34. Perhaps Meta Should Not Have Spent Decades Being Creepy
  35. ShinyHunters Leaks Madison Square Garden Surveillance Records
  36. We Need Modern Equivalents to Those Old ‘Twin Cam’ Badges on Cars
  37. Apple Sues OpenAI Alleging Trade Secret Theft
  38. Serial Fraudsters Are Responsible for an Offensive Cybersecurity Startup
  39. Meta Announces First Canadian Data Centre to Be Built North of Edmonton
  40. Flock and Ring Are Champions of the Privatized Surveillance State
  41. Google Discontinues Google Earth Pro for Desktop
  42. An Age-Gated Internet Is an Admission of Defeat
  43. Meta Laid Off Staff in Favour of Agentic Coding, and It Is Not Going Well
  44. Indonesia Is Also Facing Problems With Age-Gated Social Media
  45. Maestral, My Favourite Dropbox Client for MacOS, Is No Longer Being Maintained
  46. A.I. and Liability
  47. Tiny Awards Nominations for 2026 Are Closing Soon
  48. An Updated Look at the Environmental Impact of A.I. Data Centres
  49. Canada in the 1870s
  50. Apple’s ‘Trusted System Agent’ Proposal Has Not Actually Been Built
  51. Sony Announces Closure of PlayStation Store for PS3, Says Digital Distribution Is the Future
  52. Is There a New Quantum Processor or Is Microsoft Lying?
  53. Apple Has Known About a Hide My Email Vulnerability for Over a Year
  54. Reddit Login-Walls ‘Old Reddit’

June 2026

  1. U.K. Competition Authority Proposes Restrictions on Apple’s Anti-Steering Rules
  2. Australian Competition Authority Accuses Amazon of Avaricious Contracts
  3. Australia Pledges Tougher Enforcement of Social Media Ban for Teens
  4. The Claude Aesthetic
  5. The Real Problem the Metaverse Set Out to Solve
  6. The Marketplace of Ideas Is Rigged When It Comes to Artificial Intelligence

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