Every day, we happily and freely export the texture of our lives to the cloud via our chief stenographer, the smartphone. You’re not just writing emails and texting close friends. You’re writing to everyone: loose federations of group chats; your neighbors on WhatsApp and Facebook; acquaintances in Instagram DMs; prospects on ­dating apps; co-workers on Slack. You’re typing into Search, Notes, Venmo. Realizing your trove exists is terrifying. So is learning that it’s never been more vulnerable. Cybercrime is rising at harrowing rates. It can also become exposed to the public through explicitly legal means. You don’t need to be the target of litigation yourself to find your private conversations suddenly available to a wider audience: see the 2025 lawsuit filed by Elon Musk against Sam Altman and OpenAI, which exposed more than a decade of group chats and emails between some of the world’s richest men, squabbling over their personal financial stakes in the fate of humankind. It could be your coworker, your friend, your family member — why else would texts from Matt Damon’s wife, non-famous person Luciana Damon, become a matter of public record? She can thank Blake Lively for suing Justin Baldoni and dragging her iMessage history into discovery. Most of us, however, no matter how seemingly unimportant, conduct ourselves differently in public than we do in the digital realm, our version of behind closed doors. The problem now is that this private self has been recorded in your trove. Its very existence, and the sheer volume of its contents, means it could be useful, interesting, compromising, or lucrative to someone, somewhere, given the right set of circumstances. For our Cover Story, Bridget Read reports on how hacks, lawsuits, and data breaches are increasingly exposing our digital records — threatening to spill everything into the public: nymag.visitlink.me/CGzkMh

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The Valley’s Michelle Saniei confirms she’s still with Dr. Dre and that she met the headphones mogul through a mutual friend. Could it be Quentin Tarantino? vulture.com/article/the-vall…

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Callista Gingrich has had the same hair for 15 years, but her ironclad bob was looking particularly immovable while she greeted Trump at Switzerland’s G7 summit on Monday. We asked two stylists how on earth she gets it to do … that. thecut.com/article/how-does-…

A new video released after the Knicks’ big Finals win shows Madison Square Garden CEO James Dolan suggesting (as a joke?) that the players give up sex for the ten weeks. Come again? thecut.com/article/james-dol…

The teaser trailer for ‘Shrek 5’ has dropped, and the characters look like cheaper, gummier versions of themselves. But hey, at least now we get Skyler Gisond–ogre! vulture.com/article/the-shre…

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The vice-president’s new memoir, ‘Communion,’ is as much about him being “saved” as it is about how his wife, Usha Vance, doesn’t need any saving from him. thecut.com/article/jd-vance-…

Trump’s Iran deal doesn’t solve his big midterms problem. Even if prices start coming down before the election, it seems unlikely that Trump can remain focused on the GOP’s affordability message. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

Los Angeles native Andrea Ámez on where she gets her beauty supplies, as well as spots like Los Angeles Athletic Club and Olympic Spa. thecut.com/article/los-angel…

When Chiki Uno showed up to set for Nike’s Knicks ad, he assumed he was there as an extra. ‘I’m like, ‘You’re not putting makeup over my tattoos. I’m an extra. What do you care?’ And they’re like, ‘Haha, you think you’re an extra? That’s so sweet.’’ vulture.com/article/new-york…

Sam Bankman-Fried says his biggest regret isn’t starting FTX, or getting into effective altruism, or committing any of the transgressions he was accused of but relinquishing control of FTX shortly after its collapse. “I was really weak in that moment, and part of me knew I should have kept fighting.” nymag.visitlink.me/u6NsMv

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The first clip for Louis C.K.’s new Netflix special recounts how absurd (and dark) it was to pay for his father to go to ‘the home.’ vulture.com/article/louis-ck…

Hannah Neeleman doesn’t consider herself to be a tradwife, but she knows many people do. It’s a label the 35-year-old, better known as Ballerina Farm to her 20 million followers across social media, has found difficult to shake. She first began to post about her life on a 300-acre ranch in Kamas, Utah, with her husband, Daniel, and their children in 2018 and soon after became a lightning rod for fascination, speculation, and controversy. Neeleman’s ethereal videos of homemade meals; her large, growing family (she had her ninth baby in March); and bucolic scenes of cows and rolling hills have been called subtle propaganda that encourages a patriarchal ideal of regressive womanhood. More recently, people have speculated that the conniving protagonist in Caro Claire Burke’s best-selling novel ‘Yesteryear’ is a thinly veiled satire of Neelman. For several years, Neeleman didn’t respond to her critics. After a viral 2024 ‘Sunday Times’ article, which painted Neeleman as a long-suffering wife to a husband who forced her to give up her ballet career, she expanded her company’s online presence while giving few media interviews. It’s time, Neeleman thinks, to expand the world’s view of her as well. “I know I’ll never be loved by everyone,” she tells Stephanie McNeal, “but if there’s things that I’m sharing that people think are actually doing harm to our sex, then okay, let me take the feedback.” Read their full conversation: nymag.visitlink.me/8reEHw

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