PARIS MARX’S NEW book couldn’t have landed at a better time. The longtime critic of Big Tech and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast has been thinking about data centers for years, and Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires comes out right as opposition hits a fever pitch.
“I certainly didn’t predict that it was all going to kind of come to a head as my book was coming out,” he says with a laugh.
AN UNPRECEDENTED LEAK of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates.
The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and cybersecurity researcher and journalist maia arson crimew previewed the data to WIRED, which they say they obtained from a group calling itself the Department of Peace.
We all crave a bargain, especially entrepreneurs chasing the best deals on goods and services. In a perfect world, we would always land a low price and top-notch results. True harmony happens when value and price align. But too often, that rock-bottom price balloons when someone has to step in and fix or redo a purchase that turned out to be more trouble than it was worth.
I’ll admit that I’m drawn to a low price. Yet, after more than twenty years in business, I’ve learned to be cautious of work that’s simply cheap. While I love a good deal as much as anyone, the rates I offer my transcription clients aren’t the lowest, but what I consider an exceptional value.
Hardly a week passes without our team being asked to rescue a botched transcription from a competitor. We appreciate the business, of course, but I can’t help but wonder why clients leap at the lowest rate without weighing the quality of service.
From the outside, taking over from a founder can look like the ideal leadership opportunity. The company already exists, the product is in the market, revenue is coming in, and the team is built. Compared with starting from nothing, stepping into that environment can feel like inheriting momentum.
That impression usually fades once you are inside.
Founders leave deep impressions. Over time, companies begin reflecting their instincts, communication style, and decision-making patterns. Employees learn what matters by observing what the founder rewards, ignores, accelerates, or delays. Even when none of it is written down, everybody inside the company understands how the system operates.
You probably know where the coffee shops and gas stations are in your neighborhood. But the cameras logging your license plate as you drive past? Those can be a little harder to keep track of.
Proton, the Swiss privacy company behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN, is helping make them easier to find by hosting a free map of Flock surveillance devices on its servers (you can explore the map on Proton’s website). Flock tried to get the researcher behind the original project to take it down, according to The Intercept.
Apple’s iPhone Duo is currently in that strange limbo where it’s been announced, it’s available to pre-order, but it’s not widely available yet.
In this period, every issue and bug gets amplified, especially when the device is so different from anything Apple has done before. We’ve seen people declaring they would never buy this phone, as well as lists of reasons why that’s a good decision.
Having had the iPhone Duo in my hands for a little over a week now (not counting my time with a bunch of Duos at Apple’s September event in Cupertino), I got to experience the good and the bad firsthand. And, since I switched to the Duo as my primary phone, I can tell you that I haven’t yet encountered anything that would make me go back to a different iPhone.
As a new mom-to-be, my social media feeds have clocked me — funneling endless videos my way about pregnancy, nursery prep and birth stories, to the point of baby information overload. I needed a break.
I recently told my Instagram algorithm I’m no longer interested in seeing content about “pregnancy” or “birth,” although at least for now I’ve kept its suggestion to show me “newborn parenting hacks.”
Instagram this year expanded its feature that lets users provide this kind of specific feedback to tailor their feed. And across the social media ecosystem, platforms are increasingly offering similar options to give users greater control over what they see as they scroll.
Governments and companies around the world are racing to fix vulnerabilities revealed by artificial intelligence that could affect 70% of the world’s websites.
Some websites and services briefly went dark after the set of vulnerabilities were announced Wednesday.
The US National Security Agency and Europe’s cybersecurity agency advised companies to take immediate action to address two critical flaws in PHP, a programming language that powers 70% of the world’s websites.
Astronomers have discovered the lightest known pair of neutron stars — two ultradense stellar remnants that circle each other every 2 hours, 22 minutes, veering toward an inevitable collision about 82 million years from now. By timing radio pulses from one of the stars, the researchers detected three subtle effects predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and found that the theory describes the pair’s motion to within about 1% — proving the visionary physicist right yet again.
The researchers published their findings Sept. 15 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars that exploded as supernovas. Each packs more mass than the Sun into a ball roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter. Some, called pulsars, spin rapidly and sweep beams of radio waves across the sky like cosmic lighthouses. Their rotation is so steady that their pulses work as extraordinarily precise clocks.
Some people with depression sleep far more than average, wake up exhausted, habitually stay up late, and experience mood shifts with the seasons. A new study suggests that these symptoms may cluster in a distinct subtype of depression that’s tied to the body’s internal clock.
While research has long linked a scrambled circadian rhythm to a risk of mood disorders, neuroscientists are now proposing that these disruptions define a specific form of depression that they call “circadian depression.” First conceptualized in 2021, the body-clock subtype may affect about 1 in 4 people with severe, recurrent or persistent depression, the researchers estimate.
In their new study, published Wednesday (Oct. 21) in The British Journal of Psychiatry, the team identified the subtype in about 2,600 people out of over 11,000 evaluated.
