Google sued for negligence after man drove off collapsed bridge while following map directions
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US FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai: banning fast lanes and ISP restrictions on legal content
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Taylor Swift managed to drive record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million followers on Instagram to take action
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Automated translation programs cause problems with US asylum cases, make 'insane' mistakes
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Inside ShadowDragon, the tool that lets ICE monitor pregnancy tracking sites and Fortnite players
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Google US antitrust trial - judge ordered trial exhibits removed from the web - the Verge responds by publishing them
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The gruesome story of how Neuralink’s monkeys actually died
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US FTC warns tax prep companies against invasive online tracking
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Interview with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark highlights large gift to counter harms of artificial intelligence, other philanthropic initiatives
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Economist, business professor, digital economy expert Shane Greenstein discusses the US Department of Justice vs Google antitrust case
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The batshit crazy story of the day Elon Musk decided to personally rip servers out of a data center
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California passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring seven years of parts
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What to know about US Congress’s inaugural AI meeting
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And then Elon Musk said there’ll be no more war – not via his satellite. Aren’t we lucky to have the world in his hands?
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Google goes to trial in biggest US challenge to tech power in decades
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EU ‘gatekeeper’ list has five American and no European companies
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Elon Musk’s X sues California over content moderation law, claiming it violates free speech
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Obituary: Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and his quest to capture the world with logic
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Hollywood’s latest pirate site blocking injunction covers ‘future content’
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Molly Holzschlag, known as 'the fairy godmother of the web,' dead at 60
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As employers expand artificial intelligence in hiring, few states in the USA have rules
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Scientologists ask US Federal government to restrict right to repair
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Pentagon's new website lets you explore declassified UAP sightings info. Eventually, people will be able to submit their own reports of "unidentified anomalous phenomena."
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2/3 of foreign components in Russian drones are made in the US; China is the main supplier, according to the Yermak-McFaul International Working Group and KSE Institute
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What’s inside that McDonald’s ice cream machine? Broken copyright law.
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Maryland school district sues social media alleging addictive design rewires young brains
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TSMC blames struggle to build Phoenix plant on skilled labor shortage but workers cite disorganization and safety concerns
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Mom’s Meals discloses data breach impacting 1.2 million people
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How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—four billionaire techno-oligarchs—are creating an alternate, autocratic reality
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Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
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Huawei accused of building secret microchip factories to beat US sanctions
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Apple formally endorses right to repair US legislation after spending millions fighting it
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The US tech industry has largely co-opted the once-dreaded “patchwork” of state rules through effective lobbying— and its success is sapping momentum for federal legislation
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US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announces plans to regulate sale of personal data
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US Special Counsel got a search warrant for Twitter to turn over info on Donald Trump’s account
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Illinois just passed the first law in the US protecting financial rights of children of influencers
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White House unveils ban on US investment in Chinese tech sectors linked to the military
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$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
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Twitter threatens legal action against US nonprofit that tracks hate speech
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Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Ivanti's software undetected for at least three months, US and Norwegian cybersecurity agencies warn
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Get the lowdown on 'e/acc' — Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about progress at all costs, which has been embraced by Marc Andreessen
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How to search for a better deal on broadband
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'Straight out of the authoritarian playbook': US watchdog sued by Musk's X hits back
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The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel
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OpenAI's Altman launching a cryptocurrency with an eye-scanner gimmick. Does this impact how you feel about AI?
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Twitter’s future is a return to Elon Musk’s past
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How Big Tech rewrote the USA's first cellphone repair law
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Amazon plans to expand use of its palm scanning technology this year
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US federal aid is supercharging local Washington state police surveillance tech
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Past FBI seizure of Mastodon server should be a reminder to Fediverse users and hosts to protect users privacy
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