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NordVPN review 2025: Innovative features, a few missteps
When we say that NordVPN is a good VPN that's not quite great, it's important to put that in perspective. Building a good VPN is hard, as evidenced by all the s...
Republicans attack ‘woke’ Netflix — and ignore YouTube
When Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos entered the Senate office building on Tuesday, he got thrown a curveball. What started as a standard antitrust hearing relating...
X's latest Community Notes experiment allows AI to write the first draft
X is experimenting with a new way for AI to write Community Notes. The company is testing a new "collaborative notes" feature that allows human writers to reque...
Iron Lung’s path to theaters was unique, even if the movie isn’t
As a movie, Iron Lung is occasionally thrilling but mostly forgettable. It's a small-budget horror flick that has some cool ideas and pulls them off in an extre...
The price of Bitcoin drops below $65,000
On Thursday, Bitcoin's value fell over 10 percent in a single day, dropping to around $64,000, the lowest it has been since the 2024 Presidential election, as C...
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approv...
Everything we know about Valve's new Steam Machine
The Steam Machine is back from the dead. Not as a Valve-supported program for manufacturers to create living room PCs, but instead a home console sibling to the...
Prime members can play Alan Wake 2 for free on Luna
If you haven't yet played Alan Wake 2, here's your chance to immerse yourself in its terrors for free. Prime members can play it this month on Amazon's Luna clo...
Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own
Meta is developing a standalone app for Vibes, its feed of AI-generated videos, according to reports from TechCrunch and Platformer. Vibes was introduced as a f...
Project Hail Mary is getting its own LEGO set
The upcoming science fiction film Project Hail Mary is getting a LEGO set. This is fascinating because LEGO typically makes sets based on long-standing franchis...
Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after research got it in trouble
One day after The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster story about Meta's own dismal findings about teen girls' mental health on Instagram, CEO Mark Zuck...
The CIA stops publishing The World Factbook
The US Central Intelligence Agency is ending one of its popular services, The World Factbook. Over the decades, this reference has provided readers with informa...