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Google’s New Robot Learned to Take Orders by Scraping the Web
Late last week, Google research scientist Fei Xia sat in the center of a bright, open-plan kitchen and typed a…
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Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe
Last year in Hungary, six people discovered their phones had been hacked by NSO group’s Pegasus, after they were tipped…
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Silicon Valley Conservatives Are Stepping Out of the Shadows
That stigma no longer seems to apply. There may not necessarily be more who lean right, but you no longer…
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Tech’s Offshore Hiring Has Gone Into Overdrive
In the Past year, Sebastián, a developer based in Ecuador, has received more LinkedIn messages from recruiters trying to poach…
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Colleges Are Already Ditching Income-Share Agreements
Student advocates say that feature constitutes a prepayment penalty, which is forbidden under federal rules governing student loans. In its…
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This Man Built His Own ISP. Now He’s Getting $2.6M to Expand It
Jared Mauch, the Michigan man who built a fiber-to-the-home internet provider because he couldn’t get good broadband service from AT&T…
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Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger’s End-to-End Encryption
A Nebraska woman and her 17-year-old daughter are facing felony and misdemeanor charges related to allegedly performing an abortion after…
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Smiling Dogs? Captcha Has Gone Too Far
However, after several decades, it appears as if captcha’s dominance over the internet could be waning. Apple has decided to…
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Sloppy Use of Machine Learning is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science
Kapoor and Narayanan organized a workshop late last month to draw attention to what they call a “reproducibility crisis” in…
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TikTok Is ‘Shadow-Promoting’ Banned Content in Russia
In the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin criminalized anything it considered “false information” about state entities or…
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