1107 - Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware
Ever wonder where the internet stops and IRL begins? Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor. From internet trends to AI slop to the politics of memes, Close All Tabs covers it all.
How will AI change our jobs and lives? Is the government watching what I post? Is there life beyond TikTok? Host Morgan Sung pulls from experts, the audience, and history to add context to the trends and depth to the memes. And she’ll wrestle with as many browser tabs as it takes to explain the cultural moment we’re all collectively living.
Morgan Sung is a tech journalist whose work covers the range of absurdity and brilliance that is the internet. Her beat has evolved into an exploration of social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more.
We love listening to shows about technology and culture like Power User with Taylor Lorenz, ICYMI, Wow If True, Hard Fork, There Are No Girls On the Internet, Endless Thread, Uncanny Valley from Wired, It’s Been a Minute, and You’re Wrong About. If you like them too, then trust us–you’ll like Close All Tabs.
1107 - Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware
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Ever wonder where the internet stops and IRL begins? Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor. From internet trends to AI slop to the politics of memes, Close All Tabs covers it all.
How will AI change our jobs and lives? Is the government watching what I post? Is there life beyond TikTok? Host Morgan Sung pulls from experts, the audience, and history to add context to the trends and depth to the memes. And she’ll wrestle with as many browser tabs as it takes to explain the cultural moment we’re all collectively living.
Morgan Sung is a tech journalist whose work covers the range of absurdity and brilliance that is the internet. Her beat has evolved into an exploration of social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more.
We love listening to shows about technology and culture like Power User with Taylor Lorenz, ICYMI, Wow If True, Hard Fork, There Are No Girls On the Internet, Endless Thread, Uncanny Valley from Wired, It’s Been a Minute, and You’re Wrong About. If you like them too, then trust us–you’ll like Close All Tabs.
Episódios
1107-
Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware
Ouvido
qua., 29 abr. 2026
1106-
The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game
Ouvido
qua., 22 abr. 2026
1105-
Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits
Ouvido
qua., 15 abr. 2026
1104-
The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers
Ouvido
qua., 08 abr. 2026
1103-
Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme
Ouvido
qua., 01 abr. 2026
1102-
To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair
Ouvido
qua., 25 mar. 2026
1101-
The Fight for Your Right to Repair
Ouvido
qua., 18 mar. 2026
1100-
'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis
Ouvido
qua., 11 mar. 2026
1099-
Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws
Ouvido
qua., 04 mar. 2026
1098-
Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age
Ouvido
qui., 26 fev. 2026
1097-
Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall
Ouvido
qua., 18 fev. 2026
1096-
Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling
Ouvido
qua., 11 fev. 2026
1095-
How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities
Ouvido
qua., 04 fev. 2026
1094-
The Real Cost of AI Slop
Ouvido
qua., 28 jan. 2026
1093-
Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think
Ouvido
qua., 21 jan. 2026
1092-
Are You Allowed to Record ICE?
Ouvido
qua., 14 jan. 2026
1091-
Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote
Ouvido
qua., 07 jan. 2026
1090-
Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat
Ouvido
qua., 17 dez. 2025
1089-
One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione
Ouvido
qua., 10 dez. 2025
1088-
What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?
Ouvido
qua., 03 dez. 2025
1087-
Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’
Ouvido
qua., 19 nov. 2025
1086-
Where Do Games Go When They Die?
Ouvido
qua., 12 nov. 2025
1085-
Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality
Ouvido
qua., 05 nov. 2025
1084-
A Political Reckoning for Twitch?
Ouvido
qua., 29 out. 2025
1083-
Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet
Ouvido
qua., 22 out. 2025
1082-
Beyond the AI Hype Machine
Ouvido
qua., 15 out. 2025
1081-
The All-Seeing Eyes of Modern Dating
Ouvido
qua., 08 out. 2025
1080-
In Search of Thock: The Quest for the Perfect Keyboard
Ouvido
qua., 01 out. 2025
1079-
AI Prophets and Spiritual Delusions
Ouvido
qua., 24 set. 2025
1078-
Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post
Ouvido
qua., 17 set. 2025
1077-
23andMe (andGeneticPrivacy)
Ouvido
qua., 10 set. 2025
1076-
From MIT’s TeachLab: The Homework Machine
Ouvido
qua., 03 set. 2025
1075-
Teachers Strike Back Against AI Cheating
Ouvido
qua., 27 ago. 2025
1074-
Before ChatGPT, There Were 'Shadow Scholars'
Ouvido
qua., 20 ago. 2025
1073-
Does Gen Z Have A Staring Problem?
Ouvido
qua., 13 ago. 2025
1072-
Is Algospeak Coming for Us?
Ouvido
qua., 06 ago. 2025
1071-
Save or Scroll: ICE + Influencers, Data Hygiene on Grindr, and Labubu Desserts
Ouvido
qua., 30 jul. 2025
1070-
Bonus: A Big Win for the Internet Archive
Ouvido
seg., 28 jul. 2025
1069-
OGs of Tech: A Latino Engineer in Silicon Valley
Ouvido
qua., 23 jul. 2025
1068-
Teens Under the Influence (of Chatbots)
Ouvido
qua., 16 jul. 2025
1067-
How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye
Ouvido
qua., 02 jul. 2025
1066-
Curls, Coils, and Pixels: Researchers Crack the Code on Black Hair Animation
Ouvido
qua., 25 jun. 2025
1065-
The Spotify Effect, Pt 2: Micro-Genre Madness
Ouvido
qua., 18 jun. 2025
1064-
Elon's Great Crash-Out / Unmasked in LA
Ouvido
qua., 11 jun. 2025
1063-
The Spotify Effect, Pt 1: Ghosts in the Playlist
Ouvido
qua., 04 jun. 2025
1062-
Do You Hear What I Hear? Audio Illusions and Misinformation