While you were enjoying the long weekend, engineers and developers were fixing what could have been one of the biggest cybersecurity incidents of all time.

What is a zero-day vulnerability?

Any security flaw or vulnerability in a computer system that its owners or developers don’t know about.

We’re sorry to report that ~vibes~ might be the only way to judge AI models.

The fight to get kids to stop scrolling on TikTok has gone from the classroom to the court. 

What happened: Four of Canada’s largest school boards have filed $4.5 billion worth of lawsuits against the owners of Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook and Instagram, accusing them of deliberately harming students and interfering with their ability to learn. 

There could be a new category for your Spotify Wrapped this year: number of new skills and concepts mastered. 

What happened: Spotify has launched a pilot in the U.K. offering video learning courses to users, available both on mobile and on desktop. The classes fall into four wide-ranging buckets: “make music,” “learn business,” “healthy living,” and (vaguest of all) “get creative.”

What is retail media?

It’s when retailers use their customers’ purchase data to target ads across the internet. If you buy peanut butter, your grocery store might start hitting you with peanut butter ads when you visit websites, social media platforms, and even while watching TV.

An app store that was meant to get more developers and users interested in AI might be doing just the opposite.

Apple just got thrown into a real-life game of Monopoly that it probably wants absolutely no part of. 

What happened: The U.S. Justice Department and 16 jurisdictions filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple that alleges the tech giant uses its dominance in the smartphone market to deter and prevent iPhone users from accessing rival software, services, and devices. 

We tried to avoid this, we really did. But it’s gotten to the point that it can’t be ignored.

It’s time to talk about Kate Middleton.  

Driving the news: A recently published video showing Kate Middleton (or Catherine, Princess of Wales, if you’re fancy) and Prince William shopping has done little to dissuade conspiracy theorists that she is dead, ill, or otherwise indisposed and replaced by a double.