Category: Technology
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SaaS contract auto-renew clauses should be illegal
Silent auto-renewal clauses in SaaS contracts trap businesses in unwanted spending. The practice survives only because customers rarely fight back.
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AI therapy chatbots may already be better than mediocre human therapists
AI chatbots are getting good enough to outperform low-quality human therapy on some measures. That’s a low bar, but the implications are unsettling.
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AI training on copyrighted work is obviously fair use and creators are panicking
The legal case for AI training as fair use is stronger than most creators realize. The economic anxiety is real, but it isn’t a copyright problem.
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The threat landscape changes constantly
Cybersecurity vendors love saying ‘the threat landscape is evolving.’ What does that actually mean, and which changes deserve your attention?
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Software Updates Can Introduce New Risks
Auto-updating is sold as universal best practice, but updates also introduce bugs and breakage. Here’s a more nuanced view of when to update and when to wait.
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iBuyers were a scam and Zillow proved it
iBuyers promised algorithmic home pricing and frictionless sales. Zillow’s $500 million implosion showed the model never worked at scale. Here’s why.
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Location sharing isn’t foolproof
Find My Friends and Life360 give parents and partners a sense of certainty that the technology can’t actually deliver. Here’s where it breaks.
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Why some USB cables charge faster even when they look identical
Two USB cables can look identical and charge your phone at wildly different speeds. The reasons live inside the cable, and most consumers never see them.
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Tech Upgrades Are Mostly Incremental
Each year’s flagship phone or laptop is marketed as revolutionary, but most upgrades are minor refinements. Here’s how to tell genuine progress from marketing.
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The legal battles over who owns the rights to a monkey’s selfie
A macaque pressed a shutter button and started a years-long legal fight over copyright, animal rights, and what it means to be the author of an image.