Somewhere between “Welcome back!” and “Accept all cookies,” the modern internet has found a new favorite prompt: “Prove you’re old enough to be here.” Age verification has been drifting around…
There are two kinds of travelers in this world: those who pack with the calm precision of a mission control checklist, and those who stare at an open bag 20…
Discord has a talent for turning a simple product change into a community-wide stress test. This month’s episode: a brief UK experiment with age-verification vendor Persona, a user backlash that…
Apple hiring news usually arrives with the emotional texture of a firmware update: important, inevitable, and delivered in a tone best described as “silent mode.” So when a well-known independent…
On January 27, 2026, MIT Technology Review published a story with a headline that sounds like it escaped from a sci‑fi writer’s room: “The first human test of a rejuvenation…
On July 5, 2024 (06:00 UTC), hosting provider Hetzner published a blunt warning on its status page: phishing emails are circulating “in the name of Hetzner,” and they’re aiming for…
Some stories are so obviously “political” that you can hear the comment section warming up its “stay in your lane” engines before the first paragraph is done. And then there…
Some people collect sneakers. Some people collect vintage synths. Americans, increasingly, collect subscription renewals for the beings in their homes who shed on everything and judge them silently from the…
On January 22, 2026, the United States formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO). The headlines have focused on the money—because of course they have. According to…
When Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term on January 20, 2025, the photo-op of Silicon Valley royalty in the Capitol rotunda looked like the closing scene of a…