We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
Last week, when Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would be ending third-party fact-checking, it was a shocking pivot, but not exactly
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Google’s antitrust gut punch and the Trump wild card
This story originally appeared in The Debrief with Mat Honan, your weekly take on the tech news that really matters.
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The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social
You may have read that it was a big week for Bluesky. If you’re not familiar, Bluesky is, essentially, a Twitter
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Elon Musk’s quiet, untweeted China trip
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Apple will face an uphill battle convincing developers to build apps for its headset
The ‘one more thing’ announced by Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year was the industry’s worst-kept secret.
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That wasn’t Google I/O — it was Google AI
Things got weird at yesterday’s Google I/O conference right from the jump, when the duck hit the stage. The day
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Why it’s so hard to tell porn spam from Chinese state bots
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Twitter’s imminent collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history
Almost from the time the first tweet was posted in 2006, Twitter has played an important role in world events.
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Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks
On November 4, just hours after Elon Musk fired half of the 7,500 employees previously working at Twitter, some people
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