The tactics behind protest policing are changing—from one of cooperation to intentional antagonism for political marketing purposes.
After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives easier, 2025 was the year erotic chatbots defined AI’s narrative.
Government staffing cuts and instability, including this year’s prolonged shutdown, could be hindering US digital defense and creating vulnerabilities.
Dating apps and AI companies have been touting bot wingmen for months. But the future might just be good old-fashioned meet-cutes.
US support for nuclear energy is soaring. Meanwhile, coal plants are on their way out and electricity-sucking data centers are meeting huge pushback. Welcome to the next front in the energy battle.
Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them.
The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.
In a year that began with a memecoin trading frenzy, stablecoins have emerged as the respectable face of the crypto industry.
In the AI boom, chatbots and GPTs come and go quickly. (Remember Llama?) GPT-5 had a big year, but 2026 will be all about Qwen.
Militias and far-right extremists believed they would be central to Trump’s mass deportation plans. Instead he militarized law enforcement agencies.