How your data is collected and what you can do about it

You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts for your location. And the app is free!

But do you know why it’s free? Look at the app’s privacy settings. You help keep it free by allowing it to collect your information, including:

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Crypto is about to get even bigger thanks to millennials

How the Boomer wealth transfer could reshape global finance.

Born too late to ride the wave of postwar prosperity, but just early enough to watch the 2008 financial crisis decimate some of their first paychecks. Old enough to remember dial-up. Young enough to buy Bitcoin on their phones. They’ve lived through tech booms, housing busts, meme stocks, student debt, and five different definitions of “retirement planning.” 

Now, as trillions in wealth begin to

Is the Velvet Sundown an AI band? Many on the internet sure think so

The Velvet Sundown is the most-talked-about band of the moment, but not for the reason you might expect.

The “indie rock band,” which has gained more than 634,000 Spotify listeners in just a few weeks, has spoken out in response to accusations that the group is AI-generated.

The suspicions first

‘You can do anything if you got money’: The Diddy verdict sparks internet uproar

Sean “Diddy” Combs was convicted of prostitution-related offenses but acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges on Wednesday, following an eight-week federal trial. The verdict immediately sparked a wave of reactions online, ranging from disbelief to outrage.

The jury returned guilty verdicts on two of the five counts after three days of deliberations. Upon h

China’s Huawei Technologies must face fraud and racketeering charges, says U.S. judge

A U.S. judge has ruled that China’s Huawei Technologies, a leading telecoms equipment company, must face criminal charges in a wide reaching case alleging it stole techn

U.K.’s Bytes Technology stock plunged over 27%. Here’s why

Shares of U.K.’s Bytes Technology plunged over 27% on Wednesday after the IT firm said its operating profit for the first half of fiscal 2026 would be marginally lower due to delayed customer decisions and longer-than-expected readjustments from internal restructuring.

Trading in the first few months of the year was hurt by macroeconomic pressures, leading to deferred customer decisions, particularly among corporates, the firm said in an update to the exchanges ahead of its a

Elon Musk is right: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill could hurt clean energy

Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act has passed through the Senate thanks to Vice President JD Vance’s tiebreaking vote. But alongside the late-night drama in the chamber this week, another wave of developments has unfolded online.

Elon Musk, once President Trump’s closest confidante during the early months of his second presidency, has broken his social media sil

These geeks are building an early warning system for disappearing government data

To a certain brand of policy wonk, January 31, 2025, is a day that will live in infamy. 

It had been nearly two weeks since President Donald Trump took office for the second time—days that passed in a swirl of executive orders to cut federal spending and rid the government of now-forbidden ideas—when suddenly, vast troves of government data began to disappear in a single day. 

“My inbox exploded, and it was just people emailing saying, ‘Hey, do you know where this da

‘Creatives are going to be elevated’: Canva’s COO on how AI is transforming the artistic landscape

For over a decade, Canva has made design and publishing accessible to anyone. Now the company is wrestling with how to harness AI while staying true to its mission of empowering individual creators. Cofounder and COO Cliff Obrecht reveals how Canva is navigating this shift—and why the stakes are so high when it comes to AI adoption in the creative industry. 

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I quit TikTok—and got my attention span back

For a few days, my finger would hover over the TikTok hole on my home screen. But it was all for naught: There was nothing there to click.

TikTok debuted at exactly the wrong time for me. I downloaded the short-form video app during my junior year of high school, just as in-person activities shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic and my life dissolved into an endless loop


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