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Q&A with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, who will leave the role later this year after leading the nonprofit since 2015, on privacy, encryption, AI, and more (Dell Cameron/Wired)

Dell Cameron / Wired:
Q&A with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, who will leave the role later this year after leading the nonprofit since 2015, on privacy, encryption, AI, and more  —  After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director.

Apple’s newest health-tracking features are coming to older watches

Apple just announced a bunch of new health-tracking features alongside its new smartwatch lineup — but you might not need to upgrade your device to get access to them. With the launch of watchOS 26 next week, Apple will bring hypertension notifications, live translation, and the new wrist-flick gesture to the Watch Series 9 and […]

The new iPhones have an 18MP Center Stage front camera that features a new square sensor and can use AI to automatically adjust the field of view and rotation (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
The new iPhones have an 18MP Center Stage front camera that features a new square sensor and can use AI to automatically adjust the field of view and rotation  —  They have new square sensors that don't require you to rotate the phone to take landscape selfies.

Verge staffers react to the iPhone Air: what we love and don’t love

Determined to give us something new to talk about, Apple has introduced its ultra-thin iPhone Air. It's just 5.6mm thick with a 6.5-inch ProMotion display, a 48-megapixel dual camera, a selfie camera that supports Center Stage, and an add-on MagSafe battery. Among other things. We asked the staff of The Verge for their first impressions […]

Google announces an AI Plus subscription tier for emerging markets, offering "more access to Gemini 2.5 Pro" and tools like Flow, starting with Indonesia (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google announces an AI Plus subscription tier for emerging markets, offering “more access to Gemini 2.5 Pro” and tools like Flow, starting with Indonesia  —  Google today announced “Google AI Plus” as a new subscription tier “designed to empower people in emerging markets to do more with Google AI, for less.”