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Digital Traders Want to Go Fish
The chaos begins at 5 am. The markets open, the traders arrive, and the auction floor heaves. Over the next…
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The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun
Meta denies it has to alter the way it operates in response to the EU ruling, claiming it just needs…
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Does Meta’s Horizon Workrooms Deliver? Customers Say Yes … and No
It’s a rhetorical question, but LeBeau’s statements when we met in Workrooms for an interview several weeks ago suggest he…
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Welcome to the Wet Hot AI Chatbot Summer
Late last year, I attended an event hosted by Google to celebrate its AI advances. The company’s domain in New York’s…
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No One Will Escape the FTX Fallout
Venture capital investment in crypto is drying up, according to a recent paper released by market data house PitchBook. After a…
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Twitter Promised Them Severance. They Got Nothing
Shortly after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk laid off around 50 percent of the company’s staff. On the same day, he tweeted…
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What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace,…
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The US Far Right Helped Stoke the Attack on Brazil’s Congress
“We met with all the platforms several times last year,” says Nina Santos, a researcher at the Brazilian National Institute…
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Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws
Cathryn Grothe, a research analyst at Freedom House, a US government–backed nonprofit that works on human rights, says she has seen…
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Right-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deere’s New Promises
In 2022, three lawsuits alleged that Deere has been monopolizing the repair market, and a group of farming organizations filed a similar…
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