How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)
A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. They’re important enough to…
Brendan Carr Cooking Up New Sham Investigation Of Jimmy Kimmel
As the boss of the country’s media and telecom regulators, there’s plenty of corporate malfeasance and corrupt shenanigans Brendan Carr could be targeting on any given day at the…
Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies
Some failed startups are reportedly selling old Slack messages, emails, and other internal records to AI companies as training data, creating a new way to cash out after shutting…
Hyperbridge exploited two weeks after April Fools' hack joke
Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious
She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda.
“Universal” pre-K causes court to re-re-reconsider major religious precedent
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Since our last…
Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026)
Today's links A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers: We're already being turned into paperclips. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Every pirate ebook on the…
3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town?
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The Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists Discover
A rare class of meteorites called angrites likely come from a strange protoplanet that was catastrophically destroyed in the early solar system, leaving only fragmentary remnants.
First Draft: Chuck Schumer's Gotta Go
Mehdi on why the Senate minority leader is the wrong leader for this moment, when it comes to both Trump and Israel. Plus: can the new ceasefire in Lebanon hold? And what's…
$25,000 buys plenty of used EVs: Here are some options
Is $20,000–$25,000 a sweet spot for secondhand electric cars? We think so.
Are Social Media Companies Finally Being Held Accountable?
•In this interview, Isaac Saul sits down with journalist Casey Newton to unpack a major shift happening in tech: the growing legal and political
Palantir Paid No Federal Income Tax in 2025 as It Partnered With ICE, Pentagon
Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.
US Jobs Too Important To Risk Chinese Car Imports, Says Ford CEO
In an interview with Fox News, Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that allowing Chinese vehicle imports could put nearly a million U.S. jobs at risk. He said China's heavily subsidized…