As for Wilcox, he’s long been one of that small group of privacy zealots who buys his SIM cards in cash with a fake name. But he hopes Phreeli will offer an easier path—not just for people like him, but for normies too. “I don’t know of anybody who’s ever offered this credibly before,” says… Continue reading A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
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ByteDance and DeepSeek Are Placing Very Different AI Bets
Go high or go wide? DeepSeek and ByteDance, the two leaders of China’s AI industry, are adopting vastly different strategies. On Monday, DeepSeek released DeepSeek V3.2, another open-weight model that anyone can tinker with. The startup says it performs on par with the latest models from OpenAI and Google, and it even beats them on… Continue reading ByteDance and DeepSeek Are Placing Very Different AI Bets
InnAIO AI Translator T10 Review: Feature-Loaded but Needs Work
The T10 also includes a voice-cloning feature similar to those offered by the Vasco Q1 and the Google Pixel 10. With this function, you recite a few sample sentences, press the “clone” button, and in a few minutes, you can have the T10 speak in a simulacrum of your own voice instead of its generic… Continue reading InnAIO AI Translator T10 Review: Feature-Loaded but Needs Work
BMW iX3 2026 Review: Price, Specs, Availability
The less said about the woeful Alexa assistant, the better, which pipes up when it’s not supposed to and often ignores you when you want it. It falls over at anything beyond the simplest requests. I asked it to move the map nav from the cabin screen to the Panoramic iDrive display. What it did… Continue reading BMW iX3 2026 Review: Price, Specs, Availability
The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
Members of Congress considered 19 online safety bills Tuesday that may soon have a major impact on the future of the internet as age-verification laws have spread to half of the US and around the world. In response, digital and human rights organization Fight for the Future is hosting a week of events—across Reddit, LinkedIn,… Continue reading The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
The Trump Administration Wants Immigrants to Self-Deport. It’s a Shit Show
A young, pregnant Venezuelan woman came to the US without documentation last year. After giving birth and settling in Ohio, she found that trying to stay in the country was too hard. She had no family support for herself and her newborn, and struggled to find work and housing. So she decided to self-deport. The… Continue reading The Trump Administration Wants Immigrants to Self-Deport. It’s a Shit Show
Russia Wants This Mega Missile to Intimidate the West, but It Keeps Crashing
A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly 4,000 miles away. The missile didn’t even make it 4,000 feet. Russia’s military has been silent on the accident, but the missile’s crash… Continue reading Russia Wants This Mega Missile to Intimidate the West, but It Keeps Crashing
HBO Max’s ‘Mad Men’ Vomit Scene Proves ‘Remastered’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Better’
But the problem goes beyond a change of aspect ratio. Remastering shows that were originally shot with more primitive technology sometimes goes horribly awry, like an I Love Lucy clip that went viral last year showing a pair of once-blurry background actors brought into so much focus that they now looked like surreal Picasso sketches.… Continue reading HBO Max’s ‘Mad Men’ Vomit Scene Proves ‘Remastered’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Better’
Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own
Amazon has announced a new family of frontier artificial intelligence models—and a new way for customers to build frontier models of their own. The ecommerce giant announced the second generation of its Nova AI models at re:Invent, a company conference held in Las Vegas. The models are nowhere near as popular as those offered by… Continue reading Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own
AWS CEO Matt Garman Wants to Reassert Amazon’s Cloud Dominance in the AI Era
You might think Amazon’s biggest swing in the AI race was its $8 billion investment in Anthropic. But AWS has also been building in-house foundation models, new chips, massive data centers, and agents meant to keep enterprise customers locked inside its ecosystem. The company believes these offerings will give it an edge as businesses of… Continue reading AWS CEO Matt Garman Wants to Reassert Amazon’s Cloud Dominance in the AI Era