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AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 4,917 posts.
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EU Chat Control Bill Postponed
The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!
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How Breakfast Became a Thing
Do you think breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Then you fell for an ad campaign designed in 1944 to sell more cereal.
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Discovering a security vulnerability in a major grocery delivery platform
We felt more like “Oh fuck, Databreach” Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch erschienen. During the pandemic, grocery delivery services gained popularity. New players on the market offer delivery in under an hour. One of them is Gorillas, which not only delivers apples and granola bars in 10 minutes, but just as…
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Why Facebook Failed Our Censorship Test
If you click around Facebook’s “Government Request Report,” you’ll notice that, for many countries, Facebook enumerates the number of “content restrictions” the company has fulfilled. This is a sanitized term for censorship. For example, Facebook restricted access to three items of content on its...
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Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain Works
At EFF, we've become all too accustomed to bad news on copyright coming out of Europe, so it's refreshing to hear that Portugal has recently passed a law on copyright that helps to strike a fairer balance between users and copyright holders on DRM. The law doesn't abolish legal protection for DRM...
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Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst
A former CIA analyst describes her polygraph experiences with the CIA and as a contractor working for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), FBI, and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
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California study begins screening for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD
Our Expanded Access Program study site at Sage Integrative Health in Berkeley, California, began screening participants for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD in early March. Our multi-site expanded access study site for MDMA-assisted therapy for patients with treatment-resistant PTSD at the Pearl Psychedelic Institute in…
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Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Santa Claus Confirms NSA Attack on Naughty or Nice Database
A press conference was organised this morning on behalf of Mr Santa Claus. At the conference, a spokes–elf confirmed that there had been repeated attempts to hack the “naughty or nice (NON)” database. The NON-database was thought to be used by Mr Claus to keep records of young inhabitants of planet earth, in order to…
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Sleepwalking into censorship
The essential detail is that they will assume you want filters enabled across a wide range of content, and unless you un-tick the option, network filters will be enabled.
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MIT professor's hack to recruit students
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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Release of the Full TPP Text Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights
Update [11/9/2015]: President Obama formally notified Congress of his intent to sign the TPP on Thursday November 5—90 days after which he may sign the agreement and send the agreement to Congress for ratification. Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement...
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Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers
Science needs more than answers
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Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us
Heb jij een PlayStation? Dan betaal je onterecht een Sony Tax op al je digitale games. Stichting Massaschade & Consument voert collectieve actie voor een Fair PlayStation.
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Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool
A document format is a tool for sharing knowledge and, as such, should be as simple and accessible as possible in relation to the complexity of the document content itself. This remains true even when the format is based on an XML schema that is hidden from users when the document is displayed on screen…
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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…
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What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine This exhibition explores the unforgettable art and satire of MAD, from its beginnings in 1952 as a popular humor comic book to its emergence as a beloved magazine that spoke truth to power and attracted generations of devoted readers
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No Matter What the FBI Says, Compromising Encryption Is a Technical Issue
What does the FBI want when it comes to the encryption “debate”? At an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, FBI Director James Comey offered what he called the “good news” that it’s not a debate at all. In fact, he said, government and the tech industry all want the same...
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Airbnb purged 1,000 "entire home" listings days before preparing data snapshot
Adding data to the debate
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Dave Täht has died
It is with heavy hearts that we report that Dave Täht has passed away.
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Comcast Has Always Opposed Internet Freedom
Years of lobbying and litigation has made it clear Comcast wants to turn the Internet into a toll road and run the booth If you have signed onto Twitter and have been following the network neutrality debate, you've probably seen Comcast's campaign to rewrite its history of opposition to the Open...
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Wage Theft is a Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)
Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberies, street and highway robberies, and gas station robberies. Employers steal billions of dollars from their employees…
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How Police Officers Seize Cash from Innocent Americans
Under civil forfeiture laws, police officers can take money from people with no proof of any wrongdoing, and without filing criminal charges. How does this work, and what happens to the money?
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How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Global Public Policy Hundreds of millions of users around the world use Google Earth . Many of the...