Got a road toll text? Don’t click on this ‘smishing’ scam

State officials are warning Americans not to respond to a surge of scam road toll collection texts.

The texts impersonating state road toll collection agencies attempt to get phone users to reveal financial

UN report reveals alarming extent of Iran’s increased surveillance of women

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country’s mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties for those protesting the law, a United Nations report released Friday found.

Block Party offers tool for optimizing social media privacy

If optimizing your social media privacy settings feels important but overwhelming, a company called Block Party may be able to help. 

Founder and CEO Tracy Chou has long been known for advocating for diversity in the tech industry. And like many diversity advocates, and women and people of

Siri’s delay is an artifact of Apple’s unsure AI footing—and more

Before I go any further, a programming note: On Thursday, March 27 at 1 p.m. ET, my colleague Max Ufberg and I will host “The AI Tools We Love Right Now—and What’s Next,” an online event exclusively for Fast Company Premium subscribers. We’ll discuss the AI-assisted productivity products that are actually helping us get our jobs done, and where we’d like to see the whole category go. Fast Company Premium subscribers can

West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez isn’t here for locker room dances

From the White House to the local police department, TikTok trends are now part of the cultural conversation—for better or worse. But don’t expect to see the latest dance craze in the West Virginia football team’s locker room.

Asked whether he had a social media policy for his program, Mountaineers coach Rich Rodriguez didn’t mince words: “

Why DeepSeek’s arrival looks like a key moment for safe AI

The AI industry is growing up fast. New model releases are now a regular event and premium AI features are quickly overtaken by free or freemium alternatives.

Exhibit A: OpenAI unveiled its Deep Research tool, which can write reports on complex topics in minutes, as part of its $200-a-month Pro package, but rival Perplexity gives non-subscribers some access to its

Social media addicts: Here are tips to stop wasting time on apps

If you’ve got a smartphone, you probably spend too much time on it — checking Instagram, watching silly TikTok videos, messaging on WhatsApp or doomscrolling on X.

It can be hard to curb excessive use of smartphones and social media, which are

Match Group’s new CEO admits the company’s dating apps have too often ‘felt like a numbers game’

Match Group’s new CEO Spencer Rascoff sent a letter to employees Thursday outlining his vision for the company, while also acknowledging the dating giant has fallen flat when it comes to public sentiment.

Rascoff, who cofounded Zillow and served as chief executive for a decade, was appointed Match Group CEO in early February to shake up the beleaguered parent company of Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid. Rascoff isn’t entirely a newcomer to the dating economy: He joined Match

The future of AI isn’t the model—it’s the system

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The model is not the product

Back in 2023, software engineer Matt Rickard wrote a sh

StudentAid.gov website went down, following mass layoffs at Department of Education

An hourslong outage Wednesday on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, underscored the risks in rapidly gutting the Department of Education, as President Donald Trump aims to


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