AI is making economists rethink the story of automation
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University suspends students for AI homework tool it gave them $10,000 prize to make
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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Taiwan, on China’s doorstep, is dealing with TikTok its own way
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How GPS warfare is playing havoc with civilian life
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The surprising reason few Americans are getting chips jobs now
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Funding shortfall for new tech endangers rural cell service, US FCC says
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A lawsuit argues Meta is required by law to let you control your own feed
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Instagram's Nudify [non-consensual fake nude photo generator] ads
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US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform
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How one author pushed the limits of AI copyright | US Copyright Office grants copyright for work made with AI, with caveat
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Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
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Instagram generated almost 30% of Meta’s revenue in early 2022
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The costs of a phone-based childhood
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Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue
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Noam Chomsky: The false promise of ChatGPT
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Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
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Hackers found a way to open any of three million hotel keycard locks in seconds
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How American evangelicals use digital surveillance to target the unconverted
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Can Reddit survive its own IPO?
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On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm
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Big Tech must be scared – bigger isn’t necessarily better when it comes to innovation
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Reddit is letting power users in on its IPO
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The FBI’s new tactic: Catching American suspects with push alerts
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Google announces major update to combat AI-generated spam in search results
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Elon Musk sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for breaching firm’s founding mission
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How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin
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Frequent/long-term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways
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How Kharkiv’s tech start-ups became the ultimate test of business resilience
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‘Neural network’ fake ID site goes dark after 404 Media investigation - Site creator denies illegal applications after boasting of them
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Over three decades, tech obliterated media - my front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe
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WhatsApp chats will soon work with other encrypted messaging apps
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How Quora died - The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.
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A startup allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then came the censorship—and now the backlash
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Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo's misdeeds in China
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What we discovered on ‘Deep YouTube’ – The video site isn’t just a platform. It’s infrastructure.
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Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet (LiveJournal, AIM, and other pre-Facebook internet things)
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Big Tech won’t let you leave. Here’s a way out.
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The Hofmann Wobble - Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory
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The internet is being ruined by bloated junk
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TikTok invaded this cruise for content. Maybe someday it’ll come for you.
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The US Federal Trade Commission made an unprecedented move against data brokers
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The young moderators sifting through the internet’s worst horrors
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Is GenAI’s impact on productivity overblown?
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The worst technology failures of 2023
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My parents’ dementia felt like the end of joy. But when they got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations.
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FT interview with the Hinge (dating app) founder
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India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
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Welcome to the ad-free internet
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The invisible tech behemoth [Microsoft] (2021)
8 votes