Patrick Leigh Fermor, globetrotting twentieth-century author

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

The comedian sees being online as similar to visiting the zoo. “I don’t need to interact with that,” he says. “It’s just a thing that I enjoy, and then I walk away.”

What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.

a certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why?

In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.

More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.

The death of a lab worker in Russia has authorities looking at whether plague played a role. Even if it did, though, the odds of it spreading are very low.

The fanfic site could be down for weeks due to a “security incident.” Users are not taking it well.

With no accurate Big Tech mapping app to help him, Anas Hattab launched a Telegram group to get himself home at night. Now nearly 350,000 Palestinians rely on it to navigate the occupied West Bank.

Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet.

Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.