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Cinema Is So Back. And Gen Z Is Behind It.

Cursed All Tabs: Portals, Creepy Caves, Jumpscares and Haunted Objects

“Sister, yesss!” What’s Behind the Viral Nun Podcast?

Are Chatbots Harming Our Relationships? | Close All Tabs Presents

Influencers Are Peddling Peptides, but Is Tanmaxxing Worth the Risk?

Can We Cool Data Centers With… Pee?

AI, Artists, and the Future of Creative Work from Life, Automated | Close All Tabs Presents

Save or Scroll: Fake NFL Players, Girly Coding, AI Music Scams and Community Garden Drama

Close All Tabs Presents Snap Judgment: Runaway Car

What Happened to the Quantified Self Movement?

Going Down the AI Music Slop Chute with Camilo Landau | Dream Machines

AI Agents Are Turning Marxist Under Stress

Could AI Transform How Science Gets Done? with Jungwon Byun | Dream Machines

The Emily Hart Saga, Part 2: The AI Thirst Trap Grift

AI Will Create Enormous Wealth — But Who Benefits? with Erik Brynjolfsson | Dream Machines

The Emily Hart Saga, Part 1: MAGA’s AI Dream Girl

Language, Landscapes and Robot Minds with Annalee Newitz | Dream Machines

Why The Ethan Klein Fair Use Lawsuits Are Way More Than Internet Beef

Introducing: Dream Machines from KQED

The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control

How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload)

Are We Doomed If The Internet Goes Dark?

'Get The Flock Out': The Fight Over License-Plate Readers Heats Up

Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures

The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried

A Queer History of The Sims

How To Prove You're Not AI

Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap

Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics

Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War

How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload)

Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware

The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game

Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits

The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers

Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme

To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair

The Fight for Your Right to Repair

'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis

Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws

Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age

Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall

Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling

How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities

The Real Cost of AI Slop

Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think

Are You Allowed to Record ICE?

Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote

Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat

One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione

What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?

Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’

Where Do Games Go When They Die?

Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality

A Political Reckoning for Twitch?

Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet

Beyond the AI Hype Machine

The All-Seeing Eyes of Modern Dating

In Search of Thock: The Quest for the Perfect Keyboard

AI Prophets and Spiritual Delusions

Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post

23andMe (andGeneticPrivacy)

From MIT’s TeachLab: The Homework Machine

Teachers Strike Back Against AI Cheating

Before ChatGPT, There Were 'Shadow Scholars'

Does Gen Z Have A Staring Problem?

Is Algospeak Coming for Us?

Save or Scroll: ICE + Influencers, Data Hygiene on Grindr, and Labubu Desserts

Bonus: A Big Win for the Internet Archive

OGs of Tech: A Latino Engineer in Silicon Valley

Teens Under the Influence (of Chatbots)

How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye

Curls, Coils, and Pixels: Researchers Crack the Code on Black Hair Animation

The Spotify Effect, Pt 2: Micro-Genre Madness

Elon's Great Crash-Out / Unmasked in LA

The Spotify Effect, Pt 1: Ghosts in the Playlist

Do You Hear What I Hear? Audio Illusions and Misinformation

Why Can’t Hentai Go Legit?

The Surveillance Machine, Pt 2: No Opt-Out

The Surveillance Machine, Pt 1: How We Got Here

Recession Indicator Memes Are Getting Too Real

How Safe is AI Therapy?

Twitter on a Vape: Puff, Post, Pollute

Save or Scroll: Manosphere Mornings, Luigi Sex Tape Rumors, and the Art of the Hard Launch

The Broligarchy Pt 2: Is this Techno-Fascism?

The Broligarchy Pt 1: Chronicles of the PayPal Mafia

What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark?

Waymo Problems

Children of the Vlog

TikTok's Vibe Shift

Introducing Close All Tabs

Influencer Endorsements Gone Wild

Stan Wars, The Fandom Menace

Couch F***** Memes vs The Truth

From the Dean Scream to Brat Memes