I Let Reddit Choose My Wedding Dress — and They Got It Right
It can be easier to talk to strangers, which might explain why Reddit has become an increasingly popular resource for wedding planning.
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App That Tracks ICE Raids Sues U.S., Saying Officials Pressured Apple to Remove It
The developer of ICEBlock, which notifies users of ICE agent sightings, said Attorney General Pam Bondi censored his free speech.
Climate Change linked to frequent landslides in Pakistan
Researchers record 335 non-seismic landslides, damaging roads with rock, mud and ice during a period from 1990 to 2023 A shallow landslide along the N45 at the Balakot area. PHOTO: NAZIR BAZAI The erratic patterns of heat and rain are triggering landslides in Pakistan, even on a very busy and attractive mountainous route dubbed the … Read more
Human washing machine goes on sale in Japan
A prototype ‘human washer of the future’ drew long queues at the Osaka Expo, which saw 27m visitors Local media reported that the retail price will be 60 million yen ($385,000). PHOTO: SCIENCE COMPANY After wowing World Expo visitors, a human washing machine is now on sale in Japan, a company spokeswoman said Friday. Users … Read more
Meta is shutting down third-party AI chatbots on WhatsApp
Meta is kicking out ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, and other outside AI chatbots from WhatsApp starting January 15, 2026. If you’re using any of these tools through WhatsApp, they’ll stop working. Meta’s updated policy prohibits “general-purpose” conversational bots from external providers, shutting down any AI assistant not built using Meta’s own tools. Large language model … Read more
Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
“You can’t tell the story of 2025 without these icons.”
Alibaba unveils Quark AI glasses in China to challenge Meta’s lead in wearables
Quark glasses start at 1,899 yuan and run on Alibaba’s Qwen AI, offering a regular eyewear design A woman tries on a pair of Quark AI glasses by Alibaba at the company’s booth at the expo of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen town of Tongxiang city, Zhejiang province, China November 8, 2025.PHOTO: REUTERS Alibaba … Read more
EU could hit X with fine before 2025 ends
X faced the EU’s first content-law probe in 2023, but no penalty or action has followed since X was the target of the EU’s first ever probe under stricter online content rules in December 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS The European Union could fine Elon Musk’s X platform for breaking its digital rules by the end of … Read more
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-it of Apple Computers, Dies at 72
He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.
