From the archives:

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If you're going out to protest, you should definitely turn off biometrics on your phone. Indeed, you should probably consider using a passcode only. My latest for Gizmodo

Columbus Police exactly one year ago when dealing with armed neo nazis vs today when dealing with college protesters.

Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.

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I'm going through the Google News Initiative (Google News Initiative) and today's session was about ad revenue. Took a few minutes to offer some thoughts on how Google's HCU was hurting small publishers, and express concerns over their decision to block links to California publishers.…

We - with good reason - spend hours trashing Elon Musk for destroying Twitter. But I'd say that Sundar Pichai and Prabhakar Raghavan deserve a hundred times more bile for destroying Google Search, and have casually harmed society so that they can make Google over $100bn a year.

DIE is one of my all time favourite comics, so it is with great pleasure that I get to give the world a sumptuous first look at the next comic from Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans foreva: WE CALLED THEM GIANTS.

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I knew Jersey would kill us all.

Anchor Cuts Off Israeli Spokesman During Heated Interview: 'If You Can’t Answer the Question, Then I Can’t Allow You To Do the Propaganda Bit' mediaite.com/tv/anchor-cuts…

Discord April Fool's Video Surpasses a Billion YouTube Views in a Day and Nobody's Sure How dlvr.it/T4z85z

I spent 40 days writing the first draft of MOTHEATER. I spent the next four years rewriting it. Today, I can officially announce that my horror-ish fabulist Appalachia novel will be published by Erewhon Books in 2025.

Y'all, meet Motheater. ⛰️🖤🦋

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Read this awesome feature from Max Zeff and Thomas Germain if you still think that there's really a difference between how different AI chatbots 'censor' your prompts.

Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 los (carlos) & I got to collaborate with some stellar people Kyle Barr Passant Rabie Max Zeff Blake Montgomery Florence Ion Graduates lin codega, rascal at large Mack DeGeurin Rhett Jones Rose Pastore NoicePins Andy Mills Isaac Schultz Jody Serrano Matt Novak Lucas Ropek so many others I miss you guys 🥹🫡

Personal news ~ this is my last day at Gizmodo, and in a few weeks I'll be taking on a new role as a tech reporter at the BBC. In the meantime, I want to take a minute to celebrate some of our smartest and most handsome stories from the last year and a half

Great roundup by Germain Lussier of the toys from our childhoods. My personal pick? The Beyblade Beystadium of course. The only plastic tray that 10x'ed your fun. But there are lots of other contenders worth checking out in here.

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There is no one who embodies the Gizmodo 👻 more than Rose Pastore 😍🥰😍 congratulations beautiful! Honored to work on your ship! 🛳️

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Never underestimate what ppl will do for a meme. Crypto bros raised $705,000 in a matter of days to put the mascot of the DogWifHat memecoin (WIF) on the Las Vegas Sphere. 🔮

Their campaign was called 'Wif on Sphere.'

From me at Gizmodo 🧢: gizmodo.com/dogwifhat-meme…

After Democrats showed dumb and humiliating videos of him during a House hearing, Donald Trump defended himself by saying the videos were AI-generated. This was, unsurprisingly, not true.

I tracked down all 32 videos shown in the hearing for Gizmodo.

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