Blake Montgomery

I have no sense of direction after using Google Maps for 15 years; I can’t flirt because of Grindr; now I wonder what ChatGPT will render vestigial.

Sarah Stusek posted a TikTok going after a GoodReads reviewer, which sparked a BookTok storm and got her dropped from her publisher.

Lawyers for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, are accusing the Federal Trade Commission of attempting to exert more power than the agency is granted by law. The agency is planning to revise its 2020 settlement with Facebook over the company’s privacy violations, which fined the company $5 billion, a move Meta says is illegal. The social networking company is seeking to block the agency’s proceeding that would determine the settlement revisions. “The FTC seeks to substitute its…

Why someone would pay for print copies of images freely available online remains a question for Midjourney magazine and for the media business writ large.

In an excerpt from “Robot Ethics,” professor Mark Coeckelbergh examines how self-driving cars would decide which humans to save

What should you make of the mess of Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi, the ‘Twitter Files,’ and Hunter Biden’s laptop?

Gizmodo’s own Blake Montgomery weaves io9 a tale of connection and despair in the face of an unraveling world in “Post-Nihilism.”

In an excerpt from the new book “Superspy Science,” a chemist traces how death rays became “fatal status symbols” for every would-be world-dominator.

Joel Simkhai is back with a new gay dating app, Motto, that aims to tamp down on behavior most associated with his previous creation.

The professor was awarded a “Genius Grant” for her work encoding “very trivial knowledge that you and I share about the world that machines don’t.”