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Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

Tech

“Dawg it won’t listen”: ChatGPT is getting dumber, lazier, users bemoan

Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

Mikael Thalen

Viral Politics

Tech entrepreneur blasted for gleefully publishing how-to guide for using AI to steal content from competitors

Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

Katherine Huggins

Sam Altman memes: The best reactions to his departure, return to OpenAI

YouTube admits it implemented delays on loading site for specific users

Deborah Grey is an independent journalist covering a variety of socio-economic and human rights issues in the Global South.

Deborah Grey

India’s wanton internet shutdowns are cruel, capricious, and entirely ineffective

Divya is an independent writer based in Bengaluru, India covering issues on social justice and governance.

Divya Chirayath

speech bubbles communicate with an open eye between them

WhatsApp’s 100 billion daily messages in India are all under the BJP’s watchful eye

Arbab Ali is an independent reporter based in New Delhi, India. He tweets @arbabali_jmi.

Arbab Ali

arm and hand with indian flag on sleeve controlling puppet on YouTube

Modi turned India’s influencers into an army of YouTube puppets

Shweta Desai is an independent journalist and researcher based in Mumbai.

Shweta Desai

In India’s biggest surveillance state, 1 million cameras watch your every move

Whitney Jefferson is the Executive Editor of The Daily Dot. She previously worked at BuzzFeed, Jezebel, Gawker, and The Late Show with David Letterman, and is the author of a series of books published by Simon &amp; Schuster. She lives in New York City.

whitney jefferson author photo by jon premosch

Whitney Jefferson

new apple contact poster of man with three different backgrounds

The best new iPhone features worth trying out in iOS 17

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw was a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom. Specializing in sci-fi movies and superheroes, she also appears as a film and TV critic on BBC radio. Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested.

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

person playing Genshin Impact on phone in front of Unity pattern background

Unclick

‘They will destroy indie gaming’: Why Unity’s runtime fee is the biggest gaming scandal of 2023

Tiffany Kelly was the culture editor at Daily Dot. Previously, she worked at Ars Technica and Wired. Her writing has appeared in several other print and online publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Popular Mechanics, and GQ.

Tiffany Kelly

Is Threads cringe?

Mariam Sharia is a writer and editor at the Daily Dot.