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America desperately needs new privacy laws

Invasive government and corporate surveillance isn’t inevitable — but Congress needs to act.

Adi Robertson
The latest skincare fad is rubbing salmon sperm on your face

Skinfluencers swear topical salmon-sperm serums will make your skin glow. The reality is a bit less impressive.

Victoria Song
It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets

Prediction: This is going to be a mess for the Trump right.

Tina Nguyen
‘Wellness’ feels like it’s losing all meaning in health tech

Oura is lobbying for relaxed wearables regulation. It has a point, but is regulation even the problem here?

Victoria Song
Bezos could have saved The Washington Post’s local news and sports reporters

Plus: DC thinks Bezos is a bastard; Newsmax goes to war with Nexstar; and more in this week’s Regulator.

Tina Nguyen
Netflix’s Warner Bros. merger puts rival streamers in survival mode

The $82.7 billion deal will force Paramount Plus, Disney Plus, Peacock, Apple TV, and other rivals to make some changes.

Emma Roth
AG1 is a lot less science-y than it sounds

Athletic Greens is ‘clinically backed.’ What does that even mean?

Victoria Song
This Town, 2.0

Tech surrenders to the daily chaos of Washington politicking.

Tina Nguyen
The telephoto is the only phone camera that really matters

Phone manufacturers are throwing everything they have at long-distance lenses in order to stand out.

Dominic Preston
The lonely promise of cute robots

Mirumi is adorable. But living with it reminded me of the limits to the companionship a social robot can provide.

Victoria Song
The crypto bill is falling apart in Congress

A political comms professional breaks down Trump’s meme media strategy.

Tina Nguyen
The great e-bike crackdown has begun

New Jersey just approved a wildly out-of-step new law that restricts all e-bikes, regardless of speed or power capabilities. Will other states follow?

Andrew J. Hawkins
Influencers are pushing suspicious peptides. How much are you willing to risk?

The search for the contents of my mystery “GLP-3” vial leads further into the wellness wild west.

Victoria Song
Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable

The problems were baked in.

Hayden Field
This 3D-scanned insole is another example of placebo tech

The wellness wild west strikes again. This time, it’s a direct attack on my shoes and feet.

Victoria Song
Inside the White House shitposting machine

A political comms professional breaks down Trump’s meme media strategy.

Tina Nguyen
Will you have to show your ID at the app store?

App stores are gateways. Lawmakers want them to have checkpoints.

Lauren Feiner
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

Elizabeth Lopatto