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TL;DR Democratic lawmakers have asked the FTC to investigate Trump Mobile over alleged false advertising. The request centers on the still-unshipped T1 Phone and Trump Mobile’s handling of preorders and marketing. Lawmakers say the case should be treated like any other consumer protection issue, regardless of politics. My colleague C. Scott Brown ordered the T1 […]
Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as president of Lucasfilm. Although she will continue as a producer for several Star Wars projects, including upcoming movie The Mandalorian and Grogu, the company will now be helmed by a duo in Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan. It’s a big changing of the guard for Star Wars fans, and […]
A reader asks: Why is capping credit card rates a bad idea? What are other ways we could make rates less insane? President Trump threw out an idea recently to cap credit card rates at 10%. At face value, this sounds like a good idea. Credit card rates for most borrowers are in the 20-30% […]
Dear patient readers, Our moderators and your humble blogger are wasting time on a persistent troll who has tried posting under many many handles. That is a violation of our written site Policies. We will keep not approving and on the occasion when they manage to briefly appear, ripping out these fuckwit comments and banning. […]
It’s been nearly a year since we launched Leaders of Code, a segment on the Stack Overflow Podcast where we curate candid, illuminating, and (dare we say) inspiring conversations between senior engineering leaders. An impressive roster of guests from organizations like Google, Cloudflare, GitLab, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and more joined members of our senior […]
Duvet day at Monevator as we update our asset allocation quilt with another year’s worth of returns. The resulting patchwork reveals the fluctuating fortunes of the major asset classes across a decade, and invites a question… Could you predict the winners and losers from one year to the next? Asset allocation quilt 2025 Data from […]
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House last January, the biggest names in tech have mostly fallen in line with the new regime, attending dinners with officials, heaping praise upon the administration, presenting the president with lavish gifts, and pleading for Trump’s permission to sell their products to China. It’s been mostly business as […]
The subscription economy helped boost mobile app revenues in 2025, even as app downloads declined for the fifth consecutive year, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures‘ annual report. In 2025, global downloads of all mobile apps and mobile games via the App Store and Google Play reached an estimated 106.9 billion, 2.7% lower than the […]
from the eyeballs-please dept We’ve always known the ultimate goal was to subject everyone to biometric collections, whether it’s at border crossings or international airports. At some point, the tech will move inland and become an annoying part of traveling from Point A to B because national security or whatever the fuck. The acceleration was […]
Research analyzing 4,700 leading websites reveals that 64% of third-party applications now access sensitive data without business justification, up from 51% in 2024. Government sector malicious activity spiked from 2% to 12.9%, while 1 in 7 Education sites show active compromise. Specific offenders: Google Tag Manager (8% of violations), Shopify (5%), Facebook Pixel (4%). Download […]
