I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.
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Anbernic RG SP vs Miyoo Flip vs TrimUI: 8x RAM Gap [2026]
The budget retro handheld market hit an odd inflection point in August 2026. DRAM prices are up double digits year over year, several small manufacturers have paused production, and yet three of the most talked-about clamshell and pocket emulation handhelds of the year all launched or remained in active rotation under $70. The Anbernic RG…
Clone a Hard Drive to an SSD: 12 Steps, 45 Min [2026]
A worn-out hard drive is still the single biggest drag on an otherwise capable PC in 2026. Swapping it for an SSD or a faster NVMe drive can cut boot times from over a minute to single digits, but only if you clone the drive correctly the first time. Reinstalling Windows from scratch means hours…
Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.
South Korea’s ‘AI for All’ Push Gives Free Access to Every Citizen
The program seeks to connect more South Koreans to homegrown AI chatbots with the goal of advancing the country’s push for AI sovereignty.
How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly want to treat them like one. A virtual power plant, or VPP, is a collection of household devices (such…
As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space
Launched by Belgian startup Any, LUV1 is a modular electric motorcycle with 120 liters of cargo space that can be used to carry bags, work equipment, or even pets.
There Are So Many Conspiracy Theories About Dolly Parton and Vaccines
Influential right-wing conspiracy theorists and MAGA-aligned pundits are falsely claiming that the Covid vaccine killed Dolly Parton, the vaccination advocate and philanthropist.
How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.
Network Segmentation Against Ransomware: 13 Steps [2026]
The advisory arrived from CISA on August 12, 2026, and it read like most of the ones before it: patch known exploited vulnerabilities, keep offline immutable backups, and segment the network so a single infected laptop can’t become a company-wide outage. That last instruction is the one most organizations still skip. The NIST Zero Trust…