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X Isn’t a Super App. It’s Just Twitter | WIRED
The last time Elon Musk flipped the bird at his users, it was to switch Twitter’s logo to a grinning…
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It’s Getting Harder for the Government to Secretly Flag Your Social Posts
Wrote Doughty, “Defendants ‘significantly encouraged’ the social-media companies to such extent that the decisions (of the companies) should be deemed…
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Everyone Wants Ukraine’s Battlefield Data
Instead, Ukraine wants to use the data that’s being gathered for its own defense sector. “After the war has finished,…
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5 Ways ChatGPT Can Improve, Not Replace, Your Writing | WIRED
It’s been quite a year for ChatGPT, with the large language model (LLM) now taking exams, churning out content, searching…
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Wild Donkeys Are on the Vanguard of Ukraine’s Ecological Recovery
The war, unsurprisingly, has made conservation a lot harder. Oleg Dyakov, a rewilding officer from Rewilding Ukraine’s head office in…
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Please Stop Asking Chatbots for Love Advice
As he sat down across from me, my patient had a rueful expression on his face. “I had a date,”…
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Almost 50 Years Into the Crypto Wars, Encryption’s Opponents Are Still Wrong
When I contemplate the return of the crypto wars—attempts to block citizens’ use of encryption by officials who want unfettered…
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A Leaked Memo Shows TikTok Knows It Has a Labor Problem
Last month, a court in Kenya issued a landmark ruling against Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram. The US tech…
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AI Giants Pledge to Allow External Probes of Their Algorithms, Under a New White House Pact
The White House has struck a deal with major AI developers—including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—that commits them to…
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Don’t Ask Dumb Robots If AI Will Destroy Humanity
Hanson and I talked about the idea of adding real intelligence to these evocative machines. Ben Goertzel, a well-known AI…
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