ICYMI: The week's 7 biggest tech news stories from July 4th, 2026

As the USA turns 250, here's the week's biggest tech news stories from PlayStation, Valve, Garmin, WhatsApp and more.

Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big Tech

New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.

Why identity theft comes back for the same people

The FTC warns that scammers are keeping "sucker lists" to repeatedly target previous fraud victims with fake recovery offers and upfront fees.

Here's why QR codes can be dangerous and what to do instead

A attack using QR codes is known as "quishing," a combination of QR code and phishing. The danger isn't the QR code itself; ...

What chronic illness taught me about running a leaner, smarter business

When my health made hustle impossible, I discovered that sustainable growth comes from operational discipline, not founder ...

'Teach You A Lesson' review: Deftly sorts out the humane from the dehumanising

The opening moments of Teach You A Lesson, then, are a close equivalent to getting hit in the head with a plank, as a ...

Opera is releasing a new feature that detects and blocks malicious clipboard content

If you tend to copy/paste content from websites, you might be surprised to find yourself under the thrall of a ClickFix ...

Wearable tech used to be cool, but it's now a symbol of surveillance capitalism

Here's how to save it ...
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Big Tech Is “Fracking” Your Attention. These Activists Are Fighting to Get It Back.

Maybe you’ve repeatedly deleted then redownloaded social media apps, bought a Brick, or attempted a “digital detox”—only to ...
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Tech drives education to online platforms

This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary July 4, 2026. Stories in this series showcase what it’s like to ...

Welcome to the Collaboration Economy: How AI is Supercharging the Customer Co-Development Model and What That Means for the Future of Technology Services

Because new AI agents have made it possible to write code, automate workflows, and create custom applications so quickly and ...

In Financial Tech Times Interview, Chuck Oliver of The Hidden Wealth Solution Challenges the Roth Conversion “Default”

Chuck Oliver, founder and CEO of The Hidden Wealth Solution, is featured in a new interview with Financial Tech Times examining the retirement tax planning decisions that quietly work against Gen X, ...