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The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
In short, the tentacles of US tech firms are everywhere—vaccines, food, cancer research, psilocybin centers, criminal justice reform, homelessness—the list…
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Apps Are Rushing to Add AI. Is Any of It Useful?
Ever since the ChatGPT API opened up, all sorts of apps have been strapping on AI functionality. I’ve personally noticed…
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Urban Company Lured Women Into the Gig Economy—Then Pushed Them Out | WIRED
But when this doesn’t happen, companies desperately rework their models. When they need to curb spending, or when they struggle…
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The Dream of Geothermal Energy Is Alive in Utah
If you haven’t already, go and read the WIRED feature article “A Vast Untapped Green Energy Source Is Hiding Beneath…
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The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
He describes Shapiro’s paper as “an awakening.” In CRDTs, Kleppmann saw the technical basis for a new class of software…
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India’s Internet Shutdown Means Manipur Is Burning in the Dark | WIRED
The relationship between the predominantly Hindu Meitiei community, which makes up 53 percent of Manipur’s population, and the Kuki community,…
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Norway Took On Meta’s Surveillance Ads and Won | WIRED
When you watch a video on Instagram, the app’s algorithms are also watching you. As you scroll, they are hoovering…
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LK-99 Is Fueling a DIY Superconductivity Race
All that Andrew McCalip wanted for his 34th birthday was a shipment of red phosphorus. It was a tough request—the…
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It’s Time to Rethink Digital Ownership
Lauren: I do see what you’re saying, and it plays into this rather trippy idea, which is this idea of…
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WhatsApp Made a Movie About Afghan Women’s Soccer | WIRED
For Grand, the timing of that message is key. The online safety bill does not explicitly dismantle encryption. But the…
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