What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app.
Existing Signal users might be getting more notifications than usual. “Jack is on Signal,” “Cathy is on Signal,” “Miriam is on Signal,” all pings showing phone contacts who are joining…
How to block channels on YouTube
Whether you’re looking to restrict comments on your video or you’re done feeding the trolls, blocking a YouTube channel is quick and easy to accomplish.
Elon Musk’s endorsement of Signal is causing the good kind of problems
So many people are joining Signal that there’s now a wait. The end-to-end encrypted messaging app endorsed by the likes of Edward Snowden got a major (ahem) signal boost Thursday…
The privacy wins worth celebrating in an otherwise dreary 2020
Let’s talk about the good things that happened this year. Yes, 2020 has been a relentless nightmare that’s unspooled at rapidly shifting speeds — and it’s showing no signs of…
Zoom employee secretly censored users on behalf of China, alleges DOJ
A senior Zoom employee falsely accused users of supporting terrorism and distributing child sexual abuse material in an effort to stop them from talking about the Tiananmen Square massacre, according…
All the privacy apps you should have downloaded in 2020
In case there were any lingering doubts, 2020 swooped in hard to remind us all that life is now mediated through devices. The ongoing pandemic, the murder of George Floyd…
Latest iOS update shows all the ways Facebook tracks you. There are a lot.
Knowing Facebook tracks everything you do is one thing, but actually seeing it? Oof. Apple officially launched iOS 14.3 Monday, and with it came an update to the App Store…
Signal adds encrypted group video calls that friends can pop in and out of
The best messaging app around just got even better. Signal, the free and open source encrypted messaging app, launched end-to-end encrypted group video calls Tuesday. The feature, which at present…
Online testing is a biased mess, and senators are demanding answers
We finally know who watches the (exam) watchers. On Thursday, six Democratic senators sent an open letter to the CEO of the online test-administering company ExamSoft. At issue are claims…
Amazon announces new employee tracking tech, and customers are lining up
Amazon-powered employee tracking is coming to a warehouse, and possibly a store, near you. The ecommerce, logistics, and (among other things) cloud computing giant quietly previewed Tuesday new hardware and…