The real danger to civilisation isn't runaway AI it's runaway capitalism (2017)
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A tech worker is selling a children's book he made using AI, then the death threats started
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The fascinating history behind a set of miniature murder scenes
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TikTok-famous doctors are getting into NFTs and it's a mess. MetaDocs’ NFTs were designed to "revolutionize medicine." But its social media–famous doctors can’t prescribe for or diagnose NFT holders.
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The co-founder of Snopes wrote dozens of plagiarized articles for the fact-checking site
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The prison and detention camps built for Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China have enough room to detain over one million people
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He thought he was helping North Koreans escape. Now he might end up in jail.
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We found Joe Biden’s secret Venmo. Here’s why that’s a privacy nightmare for everyone.
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Employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments
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A twenty-year-old man was fatally shot while filming a YouTube "prank" robbery
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Andrew Yang is running for Mayor of New York City
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Amazon will remove the Parler site from AWS
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The FinCen Files: Thousands of secret suspicious activity reports offer a picture of corruption and complicity - and how the government lets it flourish
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6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using the site to manipulate voters — and failed to act
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Facebook fired an employee who collected evidence of right-wing pages getting preferential treatment
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"The Black Lives Matter Foundation" raised millions. It's not affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement.
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A Black CNN reporter and his crew were arrested live on air at the Minneapolis protests
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Here are the Minneapolis police's tools to identify protesters
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An entire city (Noida, India) has been told to download a controversial contact tracing app — Or face jail: "Not installing the app will be considered a violation of lockdown orders," police say
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Twitter will allow employees to work at home forever
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Guy Fieri is the last unproblematic food person
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Childcare workers at SpaceX are afraid of the coronavirus spreading as Elon Musk forces them to stay open
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Tesla’s Fremont factory will reduce its workforce from 10,000 to 2,500 workers
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Elon Musk told workers they're more likely to die in a car crash than from coronavirus
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Lawsuits, mountains of unsold leggings, and families drowning in debt: The tumultuous story behind LuLaRoe, a multilevel marketing brand that promised millennial women a pathway to financial freedom
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The story of how Saudia Arabia influenced two well-liked Twitter employees to access thousands of users' private information and pass it to the Saudi Royal Family
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Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion
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A pro-Trump blog doxed a Chinese scientist it falsely accused of creating the coronavirus as a bioweapon
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Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case
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Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
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Alienated, alone and angry: What the digital revolution really did to us
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Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
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Profile of a fake Amazon reviewer, who has received over $15,000 of products for free in exchange for posting five-star reviews
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America’s Orthodox Jews are selling a ton of the products you buy on Amazon
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Millions of the comments posted during public debates like the FCC's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities
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Elon Musk hired a convicted felon to investigate the cave rescuer who is now suing him
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Ring says it doesn't use facial recognition, but it has “a head of face recognition research”
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Communications and internet have been blacked out in Kashmir since August 4 - five people explain what it's like to live through
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Teens are using Instagram to cast each other in fake Broadway shows
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"Down the rabbit hole I go": How a young woman followed two hackers' lies to her death
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If you lose your iPhone, you can’t pay your Apple Card bill on the web
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The creator of the "Upcoming Reactionary Movement Venn Diagram" explains what led to its creation on Tumblr in 2014
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"I don't feel safe anywhere": People express a new kind of anxiety living in America after El Paso and Dayton mass shootings
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There's an underground economy selling links from The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and other big news sites
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Rivers of blood, black snow — What rich men did to my Russian hometown
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The culture war has finally come for Wikipedia
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When you’re trans, living with your parents can be complicated
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The loophole: He held her down, choked her, and masturbated onto her. The law said it wasn't sexual assault.
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"Amazon's Choice" is given to products automatically and doesn't indicate quality - Many have troubling product defects and warnings, as well as review manipulation
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Facebook failed to delete 93% of posts containing speech violating its own rules in India
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