Wes Davis

FTC attorney Megan Gray, also an ex-VP of DuckDuckGo, wrote a now-removed op-ed for Wired this week asserting that Google secretly swaps brand names into search queries to point users at more lucrative (for Google) results. The Atlantic wrote that the story appeared to misinterpret a chart from Google’s antitrust trial.

Samsung is reportedly “actively discussing” the possibility of going beyond five years of security updates, according to SamMobile. That’s noteworthy, if a little tepid, considering what just happened a few days ago over at Google.

Well, the FEMA alert went out — two minutes early, even. It really did hit many of our phones at once, despite people from multiple states being represented in this screenshot from one of The Verge’s Slack channels. And as you can see, it surprised the heck out of us.