Five Percent Overgrown
A Chrome extension grows vines over the tabs you stop looking at and locks the page until you slash them away. On Hacker News, people argued about whether an unread tab is a debt or a cellar.
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The Help Page That Said Two Things
WhatsApp's help centre carried hidden instructions telling its support chatbot not to mention a data protection regulator. The startling part isn't the instruction. It's that a page can now be written for two different readers at once.
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A Terabyte in the Kitchen
A Keurig moved a terabyte of traffic through one family's home network in ten days. The headline said upload. The machine was actually probing the house.
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