Fresh off abandoning its controversial mandate to preload a state-run “security” app on all smartphones, the Indian government may already be heading into an ev...
The vampire squid Vampyroteuthis infernalis has the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced: more than 11 billion base pairs. That’s more than twice as large a...
WebP is fantastic for website speed, but it’s a nightmare when you’re trying to edit images in older software or upload them to platforms that still don’t suppo...
A big part of my job is spending several hours per week staring at charts of my data. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior...
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The pet company has published almost no details about what happened, who was affected, and what personal data was exposed....
A new anonymous phone service allows you to sign up with just a zip code....
Russia has blocked Apple's FaceTime video calling app in an ongoing effort to eliminate private communication methods, reports Reuters. Russia claims FaceTime...
Based on a leaked video, security researchers alleged that Intellexa staffers have remote live access to their customers' surveillance systems, allowing them to...
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything abou...
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=461...
Proton today announced the launch of Proton Sheets, its end-to-end encrypted spreadsheet web application designed to offer a privacy-focused alternative to Goog...
