10 Hacks Every In-Flight Wifi User Should Know

Getting (and staying) online while flying has gotten way better over the years, but at the end of the day, you’re still trying to connect to the planet while you're 30,000 feet above it. In other words, it's still going to be a bit of a hassle—but there are things you can do to make it easier. With

10 Shows Like 'Black Mirror' You Should Watch Next

We may earn a commission from links on this page.Black Mirror debuted in 2011, and in the 15 years since, the real world has been racing to outpace its unsettling vision of our technological future. Certainly in the AI era, when language models can passably recreate humans (if not human empathy), "t

Vibe-Coded Apps Are a Security Nightmare, but They Don't Have to Be

Vibe coding might be extremely popular, but it comes with some serious security concerns, including exposed databases, leaked APIs, remotely orchestrated prompt injection attacks, and AI scraping. It's enough to raise the question: Is there a version of vibe coding that could actually hold up in a l

The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is the Matcha Filter?

This week's dispatch has it all: the indomitable spirit of internet perverts, a genre of music named for its awfulness, slang that didn't come from African-American vernacular English, and a couple of YouTubers who out-earned Star Wars. As always, I've done the deeply undignified work of digging int