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How is the internet less private than in 2006, when the whole family shared one computer?

Back then, the internet was weird, personal, and all of ours.

So, we got your favorite meme legends back together to say it louder: What happened to the internet?

Here’s what happened: big tech tracking you everywhere, ads that follow you around, and AI you didn’t ask for.

Their landing page: Come back to Firefox.

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Insiders at Meta and other companies leaked to us about bosses using AI to spy on them.

In tech, AI spies on workers, copies their work, and trains bots to replace them.

At a call center "Emotion AI" evaluates the way a nurse talks, and tells her she doesn't have empathy.

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We investigated what's really going on with Flock.

In Texas, the city of Pflugerville thought they were sharing data with 83 agencies. It turns out 459 had access.

We found libertarians, conservatives, liberals and leftists fighting surveillance together.

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If that person right over there, he looks like shit actually. He looks like he's ready to have a heart attack. If he did, my doctors would leave him alone.

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Anthropic is now eying a $2 trillion IPO, potentially the largest of all time.

At the same time the company is trying to shield itself from responsibility by saying its AI agents are autonomous, even sentient.

We investigated Dario Amodei, the man behind the curtain.

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Anthropic is now eying a $2 trillion IPO, potentially the largest of all time.

At the same time the company is trying to shield itself from responsibility by saying its AI agents are autonomous, even sentient.

We investigated Dario Amodei, the man behind the curtain.

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The Trump admin is using AI to analyze Medicare prior authorizations, and companies get 25% of the "savings" the system generates.

We found Carlyle Group and Patient Square Capital, private equity firms, backing this process.

It's the latest oligarch attack on healthcare.

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He made hundreds of millions, while countless people still don't have good internet.

We went to Louisiana where kids can't do their homework, schools can't support their students, and businesses struggle without a reliable connection.

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