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Critical Update
How Apple Is Making Your Older iPhone Run Faster and Stay Alive Longer
By Julian Chokkattu
2026 World Cup
1 in 4 World Cup Matches Could Be Played in Dangerous Temperatures
By Fernanda González
Xxxtortion
A Crypto Scam Targeted a Gay OnlyFans Star. Then His X Feed Was Flooded With ‘MAGA Propaganda’
By Jason Parham
Black Boxes
The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire
By Vittoria Elliott and Molly Taft
Age Gate
The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16
By Joel Khalili and Ben Gartside
Spec Ops
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
By Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra
Money Moves
The Strait of Hormuz Has Been Closed for 100 Days. Why Aren’t Oil Prices Higher?
By Carla Sertin
Pod Goals
The Laduora Duo Red-Light Therapy Hair Care Device Isn’t Your Mother’s Hairbrush
By Molly Higgins
Hallucinations
A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
By Fernanda González
Jailbreak
Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order
By Maxwell Zeff
Hacking Away
Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon
By Paresh Dave and Maxwell Zeff
Social Meltdown
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
By Paresh Dave and Zoë Schiffer