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Can the West curb its addiction to Chinese tech?
Calls to ban TikTok are growing ever louder in Washington, D.C. The sensational video-sharing app is in the pockets of 150 million Americans, a figure that explains, at least in part, the grilling of...
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Florida’s ban on transgender care pushes doctors to leave the state
Florida's ban on providing gender-affirming care to new patients went into effect this month after the state’s Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine voted to approve the rule last year. Under...
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Missouri librarians are risking jail time – for doing their jobs
Amy was busy at her job in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, when the officer strode through her open doorway to investigate a sordid accusation: Someone had called the police department and...
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Fingerprinting employees could cost Illinois businesses billions
Each time Latrina Cothron, a manager at a local White Castle restaurant near Chicago, Illinois, wanted to access workplace computers or see her pay stubs, she had to provide her fingerprint. She sued...
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Texas lawmakers want to erase abortion from the internet
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, state legislators across the country have introduced laws implicating the doctors who perform the procedure, reproductive health clinics,...
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Forget milk and eggs: Supermarkets are having a fire sale on data about you
When you hit the checkout line at your local supermarket and give the cashier your phone number or loyalty card, you are handing over a valuable treasure trove of data that may not be limited to the...
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Why Florida’s new university restrictions are ‘straight out of the global...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis kicked off Black History Month last week by declaring a plan to dismantle the state public college system’s diversity and critical race theory programs. The proposed ban...
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Be real or be stalked? Privacy pitfalls of Gen-Z’s favorite app
This app “won’t make you famous,” its creators say, but BeReal is “a chance to show your friends who you really are, for once.” The premise of one of GenZ’s favorite new social apps is simple....
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Conspiracy theorists target your local TV weather forecaster
Severe winter storms have battered much of the United States this winter — most recently in Buffalo, New York — resulting in fatalities and injuries from tornadoes and dangerous travel conditions...
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What a law designed to protect the internet has to do with abortion
The United States Supreme Court unleashed a political earthquake when it overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, reversing nearly fifty years of precedent establishing a constitutional right to abortion....
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The Assassination of Donald Trump
The Assassination of Donald trump by Jay Rechsteiner. Image courtesy Jay Rechsteiner. ART AS PROPHECY On 13 July, 2024 former US President Donald Trump turned his head just in time to escape the path...
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What is the cost of freedom?
The Avenue in the Rain is one of six works by the American impressionist painter Childe Hassam in the permanent art collection of the White House in Washington DC. It is also the image that feels most...
View ArticleIn a year full of elections, does Big Tech have democracy’s back?
It’s a new year and the artificial intelligence wing of the tech industry is still dominating the headlines and crashing through our lives like a recent Stanford dropout who’s had way too much to...
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About a year ago, police outside Atlanta, Georgia, pulled over a 29-year-old Black man named Randal Reid and arrested him on suspicion that he had committed a robbery in Louisiana — a state that Reid...
View ArticleThe surveillance industrial complex is thriving at the border
On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights issued a pivotal ruling on mass surveillance that should have implications in the U.K. and beyond. The court found that plaintiffs Claudio Guarnieri and...
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THE NEW UTOPIA The summer is over and the secret is out about Flannery Associates, the once-mysterious company that has bought thousands of acres of land east of the San Francisco Bay as part of a...
View ArticleYou want to tackle the fentanyl crisis? Print smaller bills
CRYPTO VS CASH There is an interesting case in Wales (where I’m from), in which a drug smuggling gang used the crypto exchange Coinbase to launder their profits. This provides further evidence for the...
View ArticleMusk joins the right-wing legal crusade against tech researchers
LITIGIOUS ELON AND THE WAR ON RESEARCH Another social media research organization is being sued this week, this time by the company formerly known as Twitter. On Monday, X filed a lawsuit against the...
View ArticleAn AI entrepreneur bets on cryptocurrency to mitigate AI’s dangers
The EU smacked Meta with the largest fine it has ever issued on data protection grounds on Monday, demanding that the Silicon Valley giant, which brought in $116 billion in revenue in 2022, cough up...
View ArticleTech billionaires want to regulate themselves. What could go wrong?
Turkey’s presidential race will go to a runoff, but control over Turkey’s internet clearly belongs to Erdogan. This past weekend, as Turks prepared to cast their ballots, the government appealed to...
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