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Tracking Screen Time Is Ruining Your Life

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Tracking Screen Time Is Ruining Your Life

Sarah Hagi

Nervous About ChatGPT? Try ChatGPT With a Hammer

Pandora's Box

Nervous About ChatGPT? Try ChatGPT With a Hammer

Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders

You Are Not Responsible for Your Own Online Privacy

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You Are Not Responsible for Your Own Online Privacy

Alice Marwick

Could AI-Generated Porn Help Protect Children?

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Could AI-Generated Porn Help Protect Children?

Danielle Bernstein

The Internet Is Turning Into a Data Black Box. An ‘Inspectability API’ Could Crack It Open

Power Grab

The Internet Is Turning Into a Data Black Box. An ‘Inspectability API’ Could Crack It Open

Surya Mattu

Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living

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Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living

Tamara Kneese

What Do My Screenshots and Selfies Actually Say About Me?

Cloud Support

What Do My Screenshots and Selfies Actually Say About Me?

Meghan O'Gieblyn

Let Venice Sink

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Let Venice Sink

Catherine Bennett

TikTok Is Letting People Shut Off Its Infamous Algorithm—and Think for Themselves

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TikTok Is Letting People Shut Off Its Infamous Algorithm—and Think for Themselves

Nita Farahany

Zoom Became a Part of Daily Life. It Needs to Tell Users Exactly How It’s Using Their Data

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Zoom Became a Part of Daily Life. It Needs to Tell Users Exactly How It’s Using Their Data

Damien Patrick Williams

The All-American Myth of the TikTok Spy

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The All-American Myth of the TikTok Spy

Yangyang Cheng

Why Is It So Hard for Scholars to Launch Startups?

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Why Is It So Hard for Scholars to Launch Startups?

Mureji Fatunde

The Internet Speech Case That the Supreme Court Can’t Dodge

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The Internet Speech Case That the Supreme Court Can’t Dodge

Jeff Kosseff

What Meta’s New Studies Do—and Don’t—Reveal About Social Media and Polarization

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What Meta’s New Studies Do—and Don’t—Reveal About Social Media and Polarization

Jonathan Stray

Google’s Search Box Changed the Meaning of Information

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Google’s Search Box Changed the Meaning of Information

Elan Ullendorff

Chronic Illness TikTok Through the Eyes of a Doctor

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Chronic Illness TikTok Through the Eyes of a Doctor

Nitin K. Ahuja

My Tips for a Killer Product Launch

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My Tips for a Killer Product Launch

Paul Ford

What Isaac Asimov’s Robbie Teaches About AI and How Minds 'Work'

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What Isaac Asimov’s Robbie Teaches About AI and How Minds 'Work'

Samir Chopra

They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media Without Consent Is Immoral

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They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media Without Consent Is Immoral

Mark Hill

To Watermark AI, It Needs Its Own Alphabet

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To Watermark AI, It Needs Its Own Alphabet

Alistair Croll