With the final major browser committing to a hard cutoff date, third-party cookies are on track to be functionally extinct across the web within the next two release cycles.
Sam Okafor//2 min
As phone and laptop makers push more AI features to run locally rather than in the cloud, privacy advocates see real gains — alongside new, less visible tradeoffs around update opacity and on-device data retention.
Sam Okafor//2 min
A widely used encrypted messaging app has quietly extended how long it retains connection metadata, prompting questions about what end-to-end encryption does and doesn't actually protect.
Sam Okafor//2 min