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Washington Post Tech
Apr 29, 2025

How one viral trend created the internet as we know it
A decade-old online stunt, which is having a comeback, helped give rise to the TikTok meme era -- and the end of social media as a place for your friends.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 28, 2025

Congress passes bill to fight deepfake nudes, revenge porn
Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force online platforms to take down nonconsensual intimate images.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 28, 2025

Tech tips for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (and everyone else)
From the proper way to use Signal to making sure you're following security rules at work, here are tech tips for anyone with a sensitive job.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 27, 2025

These autistic people struggled to make sense of others. Then they found AI.
For autistic people, experiencing confusing social interactions can be common. Autistic Translator claims to help some people make sense of their social mishaps.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 26, 2025

Government customer service shake ups have the less tech-savvy on edge
The government and private companies are rushing to add more technology and AI to customer service, but it's not for everyone.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 26, 2025

Government customer service shake-ups have the less tech-savvy on edge
The government and private companies are rushing to add more technology and AI to customer service, but it's not for everyone.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 26, 2025

Government customer service shakeups have the less tech-savvy on edge
The government and private companies are rushing to add more technology and AI to customer service, but it's not for everyone.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 25, 2025

U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,' threatens nonprofit status
Ed Martin sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation accusing it of spreading propaganda

Washington Post Tech
Apr 25, 2025

Wikipedia's nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
Ed Martin sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation accusing it of spreading propaganda

Washington Post Tech
Apr 25, 2025

Beware of Facebook posts for ‘tariff relief' payments. They're lies.
I regret to inform you about the latest deception that's enabled by Facebook and Instagram.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 24, 2025

Intel to cut jobs and spending after award of $7.9 billion in federal grants
The troubled American semiconductor giant said it will cut spending despite benefiting from a Biden-era program designed to boost U.S. chip production.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 24, 2025

Intel to cut jobs and spending after getting $7.9 billion in federal grants
The troubled American semiconductor giant said it will cut spending despite benefiting from a Biden-era program designed to boost U.S. chip production.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 24, 2025

How Trump team turned a dinner invite into a crypto boon worth millions
iNearly two dozen crypto wallets acquired more than 100,000 $TRUMP meme coins, worth roughly $100 million, after the team said top buyers could join the president for dinner.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 24, 2025

Intel cuts spending after receiving $7.9 billion in federal grants
The troubled American semiconductor giant said it will cut spending despite benefiting from a Biden-era program designed to boost U.S. chip production.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 24, 2025

Elon Musk had the government in his grasp. Then it unraveled.
The billionaire head of the U.S. DOGE Service clashed with Trump Cabinet officials well before he announced he would soon head back to Tesla.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 23, 2025

Anti-trans posts pass muster under Meta's new hate-speech rules
Meta leaders Joel Kaplan and Nick Clegg told the social media company's Oversight Board last year that videos reposted by Libs of TikTok should be treated carefully.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 23, 2025

Videos disparaging trans women aren't hate speech, Meta board says
Meta leaders Joel Kaplan and Nick Clegg told the social media company's Oversight Board last year that videos reposted by Libs of TikTok should be treated carefully.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 23, 2025

E.U. says Apple and Meta broke competition law, imposes hefty fines
Apple and Meta were fined nearly a combined $800 million, and Apple was ordered to change aspects of its business model within 60 days.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 23, 2025

Thrifting apps see rush of traffic as tariffs hit
As tariffs on Chinese goods threaten to raise prices for clothes, shoes and furniture, Americans are turning to resellers such as Poshmark, Depop and eBay for bargains.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 23, 2025

A growing coalition joins Elon Musk's war on OpenAI
OpenAI's plans to restructure away from its founding mission is meeting opposition from legal scholars, former employees, labor groups and Elon Musk.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 22, 2025

Musk says he will step back from DOGE, refocus on Tesla after earnings plunge
Tesla announced quarterly earnings down 71 percent from a year earlier, amid tariff threats and protests over CEO Elon Musk's role in pushing government cuts.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 22, 2025

Instagram co-founder says Meta's Zuckerberg underinvested in photo app
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told a federal judge Tuesday that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg underinvested in the photo-sharing app after it was sold to Meta.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 22, 2025

The government wants you to get paid not to use Google search
A novel experiment suggests that Google's monopoly can be tamed with habit-altering tactics. Government authorities are listening.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 22, 2025

Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 21, 2025

Justice Dept. asks judge to ‘thaw' Google's search monopoly by forcing Chrome sale
A federal trial over what steps Google needs to take to remedy its internet search monopoly opened in Washington.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 21, 2025

A judge could force Google to sell Chrome. What you need to know.
Last year, Google was found to have an illegal monopoly in search. A court will hear arguments for what consequences it should face.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 20, 2025

Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back.
Some iPhone theft victims are taking their cases to court to get their digital lives back.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 20, 2025

Your iPhone is a target for thieves. Do this to help protect your data.
By taking a few precautions, you can dramatically reduce the fallout that comes with a lost or stolen iPhone.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 19, 2025

The workers who feel left behind by return-to-office policies
As more companies require workers to return to an office five days a week, anxiety is rising for some of the millions of people who identify as neurodivergent — those whose brains function differently such as with ADHD, autism or dyslexia.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 19, 2025

The 40-something single dad shaping liberal media from his laptop
Acyn Torabi dominates social media with fast-cut clips of political mayhem. Are they news, or something else?

Washington Post Tech
Apr 18, 2025

Why is Mark Zuckerberg jealous of Instagram?
He owns Instagram and its success is Meta's and Zuckerberg's success. But the CEO doesn't always seem to act that way.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 17, 2025

Google holds an illegal monopoly in ad sales, court rules
A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that Google's advertising technology unit is an illegal monopoly, handing the tech giant its second major antitrust loss.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 17, 2025

Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.
In their race to push out new versions with more capability, AI companies leave users vulnerable to "LLM grooming" efforts that promote bogus information.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 16, 2025

FTC confronts ex-Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg with her past emails about rivals
Former Meta Coo Sheryl Sandberg testified in federal court Wednesday that Meta was willing to block advertisements from nascent apps on Facebook.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 16, 2025

Elon Musk focuses donations on GOP lawmakers targeting judges
Musk focused his campaign contributions in the first quarter on lawmakers who share his will to impeach judges who rule against the Trump administration.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 16, 2025

Trump's new chip controls on China set to cost U.S. companies billions
Nvidia and AMD said Trump's new restrictions on exports of AI chips to China will cost them billions of dollars, adding to uncertainty caused by his trade war.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 16, 2025

An AI is going to art school — and might earn a diploma. Meet Flynn.
Two students in Vienna, Austria, created a program that talks in class and turns in artwork for assignments, to test the boundaries of artificial intelligence tools.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 15, 2025

FTC presses Zuckerberg to admit he bought Instagram to ‘neutralize' it
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled Tuesday to defend in federal court the company's $1 billion purchase of Instagram amid a landmark antitrust case.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 15, 2025

Viral TikToks say to buy direct from Chinese factories. Don't do it.
The latest TikTok trend claims to expose the "secrets" of high-end products made in Chinese factories. Don't take any of their shopping advice.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 15, 2025

These ferries speed commutes and cut pollution — and they fly
The battery-powered boats rise above the waves on hydrofoils, making them faster and better for the climate than traditional diesel ferries.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 14, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg tells court Meta faces broader competition than FTC says
The FTC and social media giant Meta made their opening statements as the first big antitrust trial of Trump's second term gets underway in Judge James E. Boasberg's courtroom.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 14, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg testifies that Meta faces broader competition than FTC says
The FTC and social media giant Meta made their opening statements as the first big antitrust trial of Trump's second term gets underway in Judge James E. Boasberg's courtroom.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 14, 2025

Nvidia plans to make AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S.
Nvidia will produce its Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 14, 2025

FTC says Meta bought up its rivals instead of competing with them
Opening arguments are expected from the FTC and social-media giant Meta as the first big antitrust trial of Trump's second term gets underway in Judge James E. Boasberg's courtroom.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 14, 2025

Blue Origin lands all-women flight including Gayle King, Katy Perry
The 11-minute space flight was the first with a female-only crew since 1963.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 13, 2025

Tariffs on chips, phones, laptops still coming, commerce secretary warns
Trump officials adjusted their position a little more than one day after the White House announced an exemption from "reciprocal" tariffs for semiconductors and tech products.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 13, 2025

A podcast star helped red-pill Silicon Valley. Now he's Trump's tech czar.
David Sacks led the tech elite's rightward shift. Now he's helping Trump unchain the crypto industry.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 13, 2025

A podcast star rallied Silicon Valley to back Trump. Now he's the nation's tech czar.
David Sacks led the tech elite's rightward shift. Now he's helping Trump unchain the crypto industry.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 12, 2025

Tech workers are leaving notes in robot taxis seeking workers and lovers
San Francisco's self-driving Waymos become community bulletin boards, a sign that the human touch is not dead.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 12, 2025

Trump's trade war casts a shadow on America's AI boom
President Donald Trump promised to help Silicon Valley stay ahead of China in artificial intelligence, but his tariffs threaten to do the opposite.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 12, 2025

Trump sued to break up Meta in 2020. It's finally going to trial.
Facebook's purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp triggered the FTC's antitrust suit that starts Monday, despite Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg lobbying the Trump administration for a resolution.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 11, 2025

Microsoft killed Skype and trapped her money. She is fighting back.
It's a question we face repeatedly: What do companies owe us when they shut down the products and services we use?

Washington Post Tech
Apr 10, 2025

Tariffs create costly chaos for Amazon sellers — including the Trump supporters
Trump's fast-changing tariffs policy has created stressful uncertainty for small businesses that sell on Amazon and other sites and face increased costs.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 10, 2025

Tariffs create costly chaos for Amazon sellers — even the Trump supporters
Trump's fast-changing tariffs policy has created stressful uncertainty for small businesses that sell on Amazon and other sites and face increased costs.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 10, 2025

Pro-Trump creators play down market turmoil: ‘Losing money costs you nothing'
After Trump's tariff pledge led to a stock market crash, pro-MAGA influencers scrambled to offer alternative explanations.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 09, 2025

Meta silenced a whistleblower. Now she's talking to Congress.
Ex-Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams slams Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill, saying he kowtowed to Beijing 10 years ago and seeks to suppress her memoir now.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 09, 2025

Trump's NASA pick says ties to Musk won't influence space agency
Jared Isaacman, President Trump's pick to lead NASA, says he would keep the space agency from undue influence stemming from Elon Musk's potential conflicts.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 09, 2025

Some people think AI writing has a tell — the em dash. Writers disagree.
Em dashes have been derided as the "ChatGPT hyphen" — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That's not quite true.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 08, 2025

White House says iPhones can be made in the U.S. It won't be easy.
Consumers are rushing to buy iPhones before the tariffs hit the company, which makes its products in China, Vietnam and India.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 08, 2025

Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump directives
The department won't pursue cases it feels are better left to financial regulators, focusing instead on crimes committed with cryptocurrency.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 08, 2025

Apple built iPhones on globalization. Trump's tariffs threaten that.
Consumers are rushing to buy iPhones before the tariffs hit the company, which makes its products in China, Vietnam and India.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 08, 2025

Americans worry AI is coming for these jobs
A Pew Research survey shows that Americans and experts agree on some jobs they think will be most affected by artificial intelligence.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 08, 2025

Justice Dept. to pull back on some cryptocurrency investigations
The DOJ won't pursue cases it feels are better left to financial regulators, focusing instead on crimes committed with cryptocurrency like drugs and trafficking.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 08, 2025

Justice Dept. says it will pull back on litigating cryptocurrency fraud
The Justice Department will largely stop bringing cases involving Bank Secrecy Act or unregistered broker dealer violations, and focus instead on crimes people commit with cryptocurrency.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 07, 2025

Pentagon may turn to Musk's SpaceX for military satellites
Concerns rise as competitors have fallen so far behind SpaceX that many fear they won't be able to catch up.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 07, 2025

Democrats launch new ‘war room' to counter Trump and Republicans
The effort includes working with influencers who can connect with hard-to-reach voters and comes as Democratic voters urge leaders to fight the Trump administration harder.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 05, 2025

Big Tech bet on Trump. It's still waiting for the payoff.
Sweeping tariffs are hitting tech giants hard, shaking the industry's confidence in a president they hoped would boost their fortunes.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 04, 2025

The White House had a TikTok deal. Trump's China tariff wrecked it.
The president said he would sign an executive order that lets the Chinese-owned video app stay online while talks continue on a sale, drawing out a years-long battle over its fate.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 04, 2025

Trump says he will extend TikTok's reprieve from ban for 75 more days
The president said he would sign an executive order that lets the Chinese-owned video app stay online while talks continue on a sale, drawing out a years-long battle over its fate.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 04, 2025

Buy these electronics now before tariffs kick in
Smartphones, laptops and tablets are mostly made in China and had zero tariffs before Trump took office. Not anymore.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 03, 2025

Tinder lets you flirt with AI characters. Three of them dumped me.
We tested Tinder's new AI bot, which purports to help you improve your flirting skills. Here's how it went.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 02, 2025

Trump team has weighed deal to save TikTok that would leave algorithm in Chinese ownership
The White House has examined a menu of options to avert a TikTok ban deadline set for Saturday. One proposal — letting TikTok's Chinese owner lease the algorithm to a TikTok spinoff in the U.S. — would probably face resistance from China hawks in Trump's party.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 02, 2025

Trump team has weighed deal to save TikTok, leaving algorithm in Chinese ownership
The White House has examined a menu of options to avert a TikTok ban deadline set for Saturday. One proposal — letting TikTok's Chinese owner lease the algorithm to a TikTok spinoff in the U.S. — would probably face resistance from China hawks in Trump's party.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 01, 2025

Elon Musk merged X and xAI. Is that self-dealing?
Merging xAI and X underlines how Elon Musk has parlayed his power to shuffle around his assets, even if the underlying deals are opaque.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 01, 2025

Musk's merger of X and XAI adds to history of opaque deals
Merging xAI and X underlines how Elon Musk has parlayed his power to shuffle around his assets, even if the underlying deals are opaque.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 01, 2025

Companies are ignoring your privacy demands. No one is stopping them.
An experiment by Consumer Reports suggests companies may not be consistently complying with data privacy laws.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 01, 2025

They were stuck in space for 9 months. They'd go back ‘in a heartbeat.'
In their first news conference since returning to Earth, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore praised the Starliner and described the challenge of being far from family for so long.

Washington Post Tech
Apr 01, 2025

Rural internet program on hold as Musk's satellites get new consideration
The new administration has frozen a $42 billion plan to get broadband into rural areas as it shifts toward satellite service from Elon Musk's Starlink and Jeff Bezos' Kuiper.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 31, 2025

Radio City Music Hall banned him. A T-shirt and AI might be to blame.
Security may have used facial recognition technology to escort a man out of a concert. He once designed a Knicks shirt that criticized the team's owner.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 31, 2025

Huge OpenAI funding round hinges on shedding nonprofit status
The ChatGPT maker is raising $40 billion, but it won't get all of that money unless it transitions into a for-profit company.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 31, 2025

Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.
Uncertainty around high-skilled visas is rattling the immigrant tech community in Silicon Valley long viewed as one of the key pillars of U.S. innovation

Washington Post Tech
Mar 31, 2025

Amazon's AI assistant Alexa launches with some features
Internal documents obtained by The Post show that many of the new Alexa features won't be available immediately.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 31, 2025

Amazon's AI assistant Alexa launches with some missing features
Internal documents obtained by The Post show that many of the new Alexa features won't be available immediately.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 31, 2025

Silicon Valley's immigrant workers fear targeting from Trump administration
Uncertainty around high-skilled visas is rattling the immigrant tech community in Silicon Valley long viewed as one of the key pillars of U.S. innovation

Washington Post Tech
Mar 30, 2025

DOGE wants businesses to run government services ‘as much as possible'
Elon Musk's effort is pushing privatization — a longtime goal for conservatives and for Silicon Valley alike — across federal agencies

Washington Post Tech
Mar 30, 2025

Inside the online effort to foil Trump's deportation raids
On social media, immigrants and their allies are working together to track ICE officers in real time.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 29, 2025

Meet the militant Jewish group backing Trump's deportation push
As the Trump administration cracks down on antisemitism, Zionist group Betar has emerged as an ally, volunteering names of activists it wants detained next.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 29, 2025

Meet the militant Zionist group backing Trump's deportation push
As the Trump administration cracks down on antisemitism, Zionist group Betar has emerged as an ally, volunteering names of activists it wants detained next.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 29, 2025

A militant Zionist group threatens activists online with a ‘deport list'
As the Trump administration cracks down on antisemitism, Zionist group Betar has emerged as an ally, volunteering names of activists it wants detained next.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 29, 2025

China wants to lead the world in robots — from dogs to dancers
Beijing is promoting China's robotics sector as part of its drive to own the technologies of the future. It is fast closing the gap with the United States.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 28, 2025

AI generated Ghibli images go viral as OpenAI loosens its rules
OpenAI is shifting its policies around copying artistic styles, even as the debate over what AI companies owe artists is still raging

Washington Post Tech
Mar 28, 2025

Elon Musk says his AI company and X are merging
The all-stock deal values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, according to Musk's post. The billionaire has increasingly linked the two companies, wielding user data from X to train its AI models.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 28, 2025

That Google result for the IRS might be fake. Here's how to tell.
The company keeps profiting from sending people to IRS look-alike sites, fooling taxpayers out of their time, personal information and money.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 28, 2025

Tesla is uniting the anti-Trump movement
Democrats are furious at the Trump administration. But no one is firing them up as much as Elon Musk.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 28, 2025

The anti-Trump movement has found its target: Elon Musk's Tesla
Democrats are furious at the Trump administration. But no one is firing them up as much as Elon Musk.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 28, 2025

China offers ‘safe' place for investment, Xi tells execs amid trade war
In a rare meeting with heads of 40 multinational companies, Chinese leader Xi Jinping sought to strike a contrast with protectionist President Donald Trump.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 27, 2025

How Kristi Noem's $50,000 Rolex in a Salvadoran prison became a political flash point
The homeland security secretary's choice of a gold Rolex watch has been criticized as insensitive to the harsh reality of mass imprisonment and deportation.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 27, 2025

Musk's Tesla faces impacts from tariffs. His competitors will suffer more.
Tesla will be insulated from the brunt of Trump's latest trade directive, as the bulk of its parts are made in the U.S. and Canada. Its competitors will fare differently.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 27, 2025

Democratic FTC members file suit challenging their firing by Trump
Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, kicked off the Federal Trade Commission this month, say their dismissals were unconstitutional.

Washington Post Tech
Mar 27, 2025

The fearful traveler's guide to locking down phones and other devices
Worried about your phone being checked when traveling into the United States? Here's how to protect yourself.

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