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US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers
The US Supreme Court decided that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore – with major implications for EU-US Data Transfers.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 1,045 posts.
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Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
Meta filed for a patent that includes a "memory recall" system that appears to detect people via facial recognition and record them automatically, and show you a highlights real later.
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Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
Imagine one day you wake up, you drink your morning glass of milk, brush your teeth, sit on your computer, stare your own diffuse image on the display, while reflecting on your own gingerness. You turn on the nerd machine while doing the daily "no updates" Windows pray. The computer is finally on, and what is that…
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Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
As of this month, Netflix prices are going up again.
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New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal
With a unanimous vote, the Times Guild Unit Council and The Athletic’s contract action team approved the following statement:
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US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
Pollution and steam are seen rising from the stacks of the Miami Fort Power Station along the Ohio River, in North Bend, Ohio, on July 23, 2026.
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How Singapore's government-run dating service works
Here are the 30+ questions in the matchmaking tool that Singapore is deploying on government workers.
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AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
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Getting arrested in Japan
This is what happens when you get arrested in Japan and where you're sent off to will leave you speechless.
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Don't make me talk to your chatbot
It's fine that people talk to chatbots, but they shouldn't expect me to listen to theirs.
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How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
As inflation-weary businesses raise prices to cover credit card interchange fees, the pain isn't universal, says research by Mark L. Egan.
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The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
Anthropic faces a Friday deadline to allow domestic surveillance and automated killer robots.
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Giving university exams in the age of chatbots
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke
Answering questions and concerns.
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Global Intelligence Crisis
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future
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The room the economy can't see
(This post is written mostly by Claude, you can tell that it isn’t in the same voice as my other work, but it has notes of it. All the personal anecdotes are still from my life, and it’s interesting that this is one of my most popular posts of all time. Go figure. Also Interesting: […]
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Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
Four features of strong age-limit policies for countries ready to follow Australia’s brave lead
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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels highlights open source, European digital sovereignty, BSD, Linux, community innovation, and free software.
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The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books
I was a pretty avid reader as a kid, but as I transitioned to adulthood, my ability to focus on the written page withered. It seems I’m not alone: PISA reports reveal unprecedented drops in reading ability , professors in elite universities claim that humanities students can’t finish books , and looking around me, it…
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The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists
I just can't help feeling these training wheels are getting in the way of my bicycle commute.
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The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
Let me tell you the story of saints Barlaam and Josaphat of India. A king named Abenner, who persecutes Christians, hears from his court astrologers that his son will attain great power and rule ov…
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No country for mediocre mathematicians
White lies of AI from a struggling geometer
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GitHub and the crime against software
An investigation into collapse of Github and how the decay of our tech infrastructure is a crime against software. Detailed comparisons of Github, Gitlab, Codeberg, and more from a distributed systems and software performance expert.
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Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” and that the company’s bets on the new structure “haven’t come to fruition yet.”
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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.