Review: The Smart Doorbell Has Become a Witness for the Prosecution
Sold as a convenience for missing parcels, the video doorbell now functions as an unpaid, ever-present witness with a subpoena address.
Sep 19 · 7 min read
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Sold as a convenience for missing parcels, the video doorbell now functions as an unpaid, ever-present witness with a subpoena address.
Sep 19 · 7 min read
Navigation no longer describes the road; it proposes terms, withholds alternatives, and turns an arrival time into a debt you didn't agree to.
Sep 18 · 7 min read
The phone alarm stopped being a wake-up device and became infrastructure for managing everyone else's obligations.
Sep 17 · 5 min read
Smart tariffs turned the household heating controller into an autonomous market participant — one with no idea what markets are.
Sep 16 · 7 min read
Insurers once priced your home once a year. Now the price refreshes continuously from satellites, sensors and climate models.
Sep 15 · 6 min read
Platforms delete, links rot, and users respond by photographing their screens — turning a throwaway gesture into the web's scrappiest archive.
Sep 14 · 6 min read
Consumer earbuds now carry authorized hearing aid functions, folding a regulated medical device into a gadget you charge nightly.
Sep 13 · 7 min read
Six months with two competing vaults shows the tool that stores your secrets now decides where you are allowed to log in.
Sep 12 · 6 min read
The digital replica meant to optimize our world is becoming a mandatory co-pilot, its logic overriding the messy, inefficient truth of physical life.
Sep 11 · 6 min read
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra costs $1B to train and $10 per million tokens. Here's what it can do, what it costs, and what worries the people who built it.
Sep 11 · 10 min read
OpenAI solved a $1M math problem in 88 hours. Anthropic's Claude designed proteins that beat human experts. What changed for researchers.
Sep 11 · 11 min read
We thought we were just identifying devices, but the behavioral signature we leave behind is becoming a permanent mark on our digital selves.
Sep 7 · 4 min read
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