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This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale | WIRED
This wasn’t Supposed to happen. In 2020, in a house surrounded by fields in the Irish countryside, Liam, 19, sat…
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Buffalo Mass Shooting Victims’ Families Sue Meta, Reddit, Amazon
Elmore says the goal is to force reform. “We can’t bring the victims of this lawsuit back, but we can…
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More Penguins Than Europeans Can Use Google Bard | WIRED
The bloc’s omission hints at the larger power struggle between regulators and Big Tech in Europe. At a minimum, the…
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The Curious Case of the Missing Google Assistant
Google executives hosted the company’s I/O developer conference this week, an annual ritual that has in recent years centered on artificial…
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Twitter’s New CEO, Linda Yaccarino, Has a Fearsome To-Do List
Some airlines have stopped offering customer service through Twitter because of the changes. Transit authorities and public health agencies paused…
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You’re Probably Underestimating AI Chatbots
In the spring of 2007, I was one of four journalists anointed by Steve Jobs to review the iPhone. This…
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The Boring Future of Generative AI
This week, at its annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, Google showcased a head-spinning number of projects and products powered…
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Self-Driving Cars Are Being Put on a Data Diet
Self-driving-car developers initially held a similar philosophy of data maximization. They generate video from arrays of cameras inside and outside…
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Europe’s Moral Crusader Lays Down the Law on Encryption | WIRED
“If we, as the EU, can mandate service providers to scan for some content through a backdoor, other states will…
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Twitter’s Encrypted DMs Are Deeply Inferior to Signal and WhatsApp
Elon Musk’s long-promised launch of encrypted direct messages on Twitter has arrived. Like most attempts to add end-to-end encryption to…
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