Category: Technology

  • How to Delete All of Your Social Media Accounts: Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, and More

    How to Delete All of Your Social Media Accounts: Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, and More

    Here’s an evergreen take: There has never been a better time to get off social media. Social services have evolved even further into becoming sticky traps for doomscrolling and AI-generated slop, and are hitherto unprecedented frontiers for rage bait. Bummed out about all the misinformation and being part of a profit machine that funds one…

  • Apple Sues the YouTuber Who Leaked iOS 26

    Leaks are a constant part of big product news cycles, particularly for companies like Apple. Online soothsayers like Jon Prosser and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have long predicted the content of upcoming Apple announcements, citing anonymous sources from within the company to glean glimpses of what’s next. They have been correct often enough to become a…

  • How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyberspies

    How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyberspies

    In the summer of 2005, Tan Dailin was a 20-year-old grad student at Sichuan University of Science and Engineering when he came to the attention of the People’s Liberation Army of China. Tan was part of a burgeoning hacker community known as the Honkers—teens and twentysomethings in late-’90s and early-’00s China who formed groups like…