Month: June 2026
The best July 4th sales we found so far
July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the…
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Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data
A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans’ health and location information to data brokers — including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version…
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Usernames Are Coming to WhatsApp Soon. Here’s How to Reserve Yours
Even if you only use WhatsApp sometimes, you might want to snag your username now to stop giving out your phone number. Source
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WhatsApp is launching usernames: here’s how to reserve yours
WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will be launching “later this year,” in a move to make the communications platform “even more private,” allowing you to keep your phone number concealed from people who aren’t already…
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‘I don’t like that he made this donation’ — Mullvad CEO reacts to co-founder’s donation to controversial Swedish populist party
Mullvad VPN’s co-founder Daniel Berntsson donated 5M SEK to the Örebro Party Mullvad confirms the donation “is not part of Mullvad’s values or mission” Örebro party’s leader, Markus Allard, is known for controversial views Daniel Berntsson, co-founder and co-owner of Mullvad VPN, has donated 5 million Swedish kronor (around $514,000)…
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Supreme Court allows firing of FTC commissioners, ends agency independence
The Supreme Court just placed once-independent agencies more firmly under presidential control. The court ruled in Slaughter v. Trump with a 6-3 vote that President Donald Trump had the authority to fire the Federal Trade Commission’s two Democratic commissioners, even though it broke with decades of prior legal precedent at…
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