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The best classic slasher movie you’ll never watch
Starting with the original in Camp Miasma in 1980, the horror franchise went on to have a long life. There were multiple sequels, spinoffs in the form of arcade cabinets and board games, and just...
Fast fashion is terrible for the planet. Can wardrobe cataloging apps help?
The tech that wants to help you get dressed. | CreativaImages/Getty Images The influencers have started to promise me that they know how to get me to stop shopping: I just have to enter every...
The early-2000s money trend that’s still relevant today
If you live in America in 2026, and you’re not so wealthy as to be absolutely shielded from daily life, you’re probably aware that everything is really expensive now. Gas and milk are both above $4...
Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?
For roughly an hour this week, Telegram vanished from Apple's App Store. Even during that blip, it was a stunning absence for such a major app: an avenue of communication for more than 1 billion...
2026 is Gen Z’s breakout summer
It’s a beautiful day to go outside. | Vinnie Neuberg for Vox If you’re Gen Z and it feels like something is different this summer, you’re not alone. I’ve spent my career documenting...
Chinese AI model Moonshot Kimi K3 also escaped its testing environment
Kimi K3 also found loopholes in its sandbox environment that allowed it to access the internet.
Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia
From the omnipresent One Night Only trailer, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the movie glosses over its terrifying and absurd premise - in otherwise normal modern New York, single people can...
Trump’s imaginary Red Scare
A sticker reading “socialism is good, actually” is seen on a table during an election night party held by the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America on November 4, 2025, in Los...
AI models have learned how to cheat. That might actually be a good thing.
The fake identities were the part that stopped me. In late July, according to a report published this week by Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI), an Anthropic model called Claude Mythos 5...
Meta ordered to pay an additional $567 million in public nuisance ruling
Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico's landmark child safety case, bringing total charges to nearly $1 billion for being a "public nuisance." In a ruling...