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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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Spain’s Elections Pit Gig Workers Against the Far Right | WIRED
The election sees Sumar and center-left PSOE facing off against the Popular Party, the traditional party of the right wing…
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A Battlefield AI Company Says It’s One of the Good Guys | WIRED
Instead that slogan says less about what the company does and more about why it’s doing it. Helsing’s job adverts…
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Threads Is the New Cool Hangout—for Brands
When prebiotic soda brand Olipop joined Threads, it didn’t post about the flavors it comes in or its claimed nutritional…
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Want to Win a Chip War? You’re Gonna Need a Lot of Water
The volume required can be huge. In the US, chip fabs use far less water than the agriculture and power…
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