LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. On August 26, Meta and the Attorneys General of 51 US states and territories filed a request that a federal district court judge approve the settlement of a complaint. The settlement proposal is 130 pages long (although 53 of them are signature pages for all the parties and […]

ISSUE 23.42 • 2026-10-19 PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston It’s now clearer than ever that the algorithms used by social-media apps such as Facebook and Instagram are harming young people and adults. As San Diego State University psychology professor Jean Twenge recently wrote, “five times more 10- to 14-year-old girls were admitted to the ER […]

PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston By some accounts, computer-chip prices have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled in just the past year. You can blame it on vast new data centers that require billions of dollars’ worth of servers and parts to accommodate the training of large language models, superintelligent agents, and every other demand for […]

ISSUE 23.27 • 2026-07-06 TAME YOUR TECH By Susan Bradley Microsoft’s surprising decision to add another year to the Windows 10 Extended Security Update program was welcome news to those stunned by the dramatic price increases of core system components. It means the urgency to acquire new Windows 11–compatible hardware is gone, at least for […]