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79% of Ransomware Victims Used to Pay. Now It’s 28%. The Attacks Hit a Record Anyway.

For years the advice given to ransomware victims was easy to say and hard to follow: don't pay. Paying funds the next attack, marks you as a soft target, and…

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Streaming Prices Keep Rising and Nobody’s Leaving. The Price Isn’t the Point.

Netflix raised prices again in March, its second increase in barely over…

AI Won the Copyright Fight. It Paid $1.5 Billion Anyway. Here’s What Actually Happened.

The largest copyright settlement in history was approved this summer, and almost…

Right to Repair Won. Then the Fight Moved Somewhere Harder to See.

The right to repair won. After a decade of bills dying in…

Is AI a Bubble or a Revolution? The Honest Answer Is Both — and That’s the Danger

The single most important argument in technology right now is not about…

Passkeys Won. The Password Still Isn’t Dead. The Reason Is the Whole Point.

The password was supposed to be dead by now. For a few…

AI’s Energy Use Is Both Wildly Overblown and Seriously Underrated. Here’s the Part That’s True.

There are two stories about AI and electricity, and they are both…

Chrome Broke Ad Blockers and AI Answers Broke Traffic. It’s the Same Story.

Two things happened to the web this past year that were reported…

AI Writes Code Faster Than Ever. The Productivity Gain Is About 10 Percent. Both Are True

In July 2025, a nonprofit research group called METR published the result…

The Entry-Level Job Is Vanishing. The Fight Is Over Whether AI Is Holding the Knife

If you graduated into a white-collar field in the last two years,…