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TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
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Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
When a government contractor pays a company for "Takedown Services" to prevent transparency in government
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Say No to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new terms of use (TOU) and privacy notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
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California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) committed wholesale abuse of sensitive criminal justice databases in 2023, violating a specific rule against searching the data to run background checks for concealed carry firearm permits.The sheriff’s department’s 6,789 abuses made up a majority...
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Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.
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Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE
For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies....
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Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet
Bitchat is a new messaging app that allows users to chat securely with or without internet access. Download it today via the App Store or Google Play store to begin communicating safely, even when connectivity disappears. Why Bitchat is needed Palestinians are dependent on Israel for their access to electricity,
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Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
Apple's rules and technical restrictions are blocking other browser vendors from successfully offering their own engines to users in the EU.
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Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
GPTZero used our Hallucination Check tool to find 50+ hallucinations under review at ICLR, each of which were missed by 3-5 peer reviewers.
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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
Read more on the Riksbank’s website.
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Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?
Millions are exploring European alternatives for privacy-friendly tech. Which are the top categories, top tools, and the global demand driving this shift.
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Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear
The researchers demonstrate that an engineered antibody improves a class of drugs that has struggled to make good on its early promise.
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Nevada court shuts down police use of federal loophole for civil forfeiture
RENO, Nev.—In a major victory for property rights, today a Washoe County judge ruled that Nevada law enforcement cannot use a federal program to bypass […]
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Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
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Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
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Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does
Privacy is when they promise to protect your data. Anonymity is when they never had your data to begin with.
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The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s CSDDD.
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Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
Readers may recall that Japan recently passed the Smartphone Act, officially the Bill on the Promotion of Competition for Specified Software Used in…
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy