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5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance
San Francisco made history in 2019 when its Board of Supervisors voted to ban city agencies including the police department…
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Europe’s Digital Markets Act Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech
Citizens of the European Union live in an internet built and ruled by foreign powers. Most people in the EU…
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Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say
Forty-one state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are skyrocketing across the United…
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For Bitcoin Mines in Texas, the Honeymoon Is Over
Others argue the state’s strategy of paying Bitcoin miners not to mine when the grid is under heavy load is…
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The Dark Side of Open Source AI Image Generators
Whether through the frowning high-definition face of a chimpanzee or a psychedelic, pink-and-red-hued doppelganger of himself, Reuven Cohen uses AI-generated…
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How to Turn Off Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication Change
Meta changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram last year. You might have received notifications about this, but…
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Google Is Finally Trying to Kill AI Clickbait
Google is taking action against algorithmically-generated spam. The search engine giant just announced upcoming changes, including a revamped spam policy,…
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Inside Registered Agents Inc., the Shadowy Firm Pushing the Limits of Business Privacy
Since 2008, Dan Keen has grown his business from a small company serving customers in the Pacific Northwest to a…
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads Are Coming Back Online After a 2-Hour Outage
Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg used to describe his company’s mission as “making the world more open and connected.” Tuesday it…
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6 Months After New York Banned Airbnb, New Jersey Is Doing Great
More than 95 percent of the group’s members say they have no intention of becoming long-term landlords, says Lindsay. Instead,…
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