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Apple Discusses iPhone Repairability at Keynote for First Time in Its History
In 15 years of new iPhone announcements, Apple had never talked about repairability, until now.

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'I Will Cut and Kill You:' New Lawsuit Against Pornhub Alleges Girls Do Porn Threatened Victim’s Life
Kristy Althaus is suing Pornhub and its parent company, seeking a jury trial for accusations that it contributed to her abuse from Girls Do Porn.

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Customs and Border Protection Says It Will Stop Buying Smartphone Location Data
For years, journalists and lawmakers have investigated CBP and other agencies’ purchase of smartphone location data without a warrant. Now CBP says it will stop using such data at the end of the month.

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Masked Man Filmed Smashing San Francisco RoboTaxi With Hammer
A Cruise robotaxi was bashed repeatedly with a hammer and spraypainted in the middle of a San Francisco intersection.

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Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns
Starfield players looking for how to fix a bug that breaks guns figured out changing their character's gender is a solution.

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Archivists Back Up Nonprofit TV History Museum Before Sony Copystrikes Get It Taken Down From YouTube
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television eventually came back up, but the incident shows how fragile our shared history is in an age of overzealous copyright enforcement.

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Forensic Investigators Allege Nina Agdal's Snapchat Was Hacked to Steal Private Video
“I have concluded that Ms. Agdal’s Snapchat account was in fact compromised," an affidavit by a forensic investigator said.

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404 Media Got CEO Coaching From John Hittler
John Hittler told us why he hasn’t changed his name, and why we need to celebrate 404 Media at the French Laundry next year.

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Let's Check What Drugs, Guns, and Counterfeit Money Instagram Is Advertising Today
Two weeks after a 404 Media investigation, let’s see if Meta has learned to do a basic search of its own platform.

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Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port at a Time
Ethan Lee has been keeping your favorite indie games running for years by porting them to Linux. Now he wants developers to start thinking about “maintenance” instead of “remasters.”

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Andreessen Horowitz Funds ‘Uncensored’ AI That Will Tell You How to Kill Yourself
a16z funds open source AI developers who are building alternatives to OpenAI’s closed systems, but we still have no idea what’s going to happen when anyone can access uncensored LLMs.

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AI Image Company Rebrands After 404 Media Investigation
On Wednesday 404 Media reported Kaedim had promised AI-powered 2D to 3D conversions, but had actually used human workers. Hours later, Kaedim rebranded its website and messaging.