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Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools
Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and...
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Maryland Passes 2 Major Privacy Bills, Despite Tech Industry Pushback
One bill would require apps like Instagram and TikTok to prioritize young people’s safety, and the...
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In Battle Over Health Care Costs, Private Equity Plays Both Sides
As medical practices owned by private equity firms fuel overbilling, a payment tool also backed by...
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How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law...
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What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.
As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to...
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Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology....
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Is A.I. Already Taking Jobs? +A Filmmaker Tries Sora + The XZ Backdoor Caper
“I’ve always said if you have a ChatGPT subscription and a hose, you can get very...
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Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.
A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech...
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Back in the ’90s, This Eclipse Webcast Put the Cosmos on Demand
A total solar eclipse in Aruba was streamed to millions of users of the World Wide...
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Andres Freund, el ingeniero que previno un posible ciberataque global
Un ingeniero de Microsoft notó que algo andaba mal en un software en el que había...
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Ford Slows Its Push Into Electric Vehicles
The automaker said it would delay new battery-powered models and shift its focus to hybrid cars,...
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TikTok Spends Millions on Ad Blitz as Congress Considers Banning the App
The video app is spending millions on ads as Congress considers a bill that could lead...
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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?
A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He...
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NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon
The agency’s future moon buggies will reach speeds of 9.3 miles per hour and will be...
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‘Carefluencers’ Are Helping Older Loved Ones, and Posting About It
On TikTok and Instagram, people are sharing what it’s like to take care of relatives who...
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Switching From iPhone to Android Is Easy. It’s the Aftermath That Stings.
Even if you manage to ditch your iPhone, Apple’s hooks are still there.
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George Carlin’s Estate Reaches Settlement After A.I. Podcast
The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I....
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Tesla’s Sales Drop, a Sign That Its Grip on the E.V. Market Is Slipping
Sales of the company’s electric cars dropped in the first three months of the year, even...
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An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes
Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools...
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Sticks. And the People Who Love Them.
Those who appreciate “something as basic as a stick” are sharing their enthusiasm through a newly...
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Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in Latest Settlement
The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web...
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How One Tech Skeptic Decided AI Might Benefit the Middle Class
David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past...
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China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms
China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016...
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Daniel C. Lynch, Founder of Major Computer Exhibition, Dies at 82
After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a...