LLM E2EE made simple Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works. Dan Goodin – Jan 13, 2026 7:00 AM | 0 Credit: Getty Images Credit: Getty Images Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn…

Gift a 404 Media subscription to a friend. Thursday morning, Ezra Klein at the New York Times published a column titled “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way.” Klein’s general thesis is that Kirk was willing to talk to anyone, regardless of their beliefs, as evidenced by what he was…

Charlie Kirk debates with students at The Cambridge Union in May 2025Nordin Catic/The Cambridge Union/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Tragedy is a powerful shaper of narratives. In the aftermath of the horrific…

George Orwell’s dystopian novels “Animal Farm” and “1984” have remained popular in the U.S. ever since their initial publication in the 1940s. What’s less well known is that in the years before the publication of “Animal Farm” and “1984,” Orwell’s writing often focused primarily on other themes…

Share This Article There is an estimated $12 billion market of companies that buy and sell location data collected from your cellphone. And the trade is entirely legal in the U.S. Without legislation limiting the location data trade, Apple and Google have become the de facto regulators for keeping…