From a plea to stop pasting AI answers to silent fingerprinting that jams Bluetooth, from a lopsided legal contrast to short-video brain scans, today’s stories ask what more controllable relationships with tools, platforms, and each other should look like.

A day of trade-offs between trust and convenience: marking words versus choosing them well, putting capable models on laptops while a central code forge wobbles, and redrawing the lines around pricing, consent, and attention.