The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real

Dhruv Mehrotra and Andy Greenberg

The inside story of the teenager whose “swatting” calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the private detective who tracked him down.

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How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work

Matt Burgess

The fate of TikTok now rests in the hands of the US Supreme Court. If a law banning the social video app this month is upheld, it won’t disappear from your phone—but it will get messy fast.

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Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

Kate Knibbs

Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

Joseph Cox

A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.

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The 31 Best Gadgets From CES 2025 You Can Buy Right Now

Brenda Stolyar

From smartphones to smart glasses, here’s everything announced at this year’s big tech trade show that you can actually order—or preorder—today.

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Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

Kate Knibbs

One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.

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