A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
…Information Wars Leading the Future is trying to steer AI policy in the industry’s favor at a potentially pivotal moment. AI is shaping up to be a key issue in the…
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Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak
…And he oversaw abrupt changes to the recommended childhood vaccine schedule, a move medical societies called dangerous and not backed by science. A federal judge blocked those changes in March, but Trump…
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
…He said the tool’s capabilities and workflows may change significantly before a broader release. Amid mounting controversy over how police use and abuse its cameras, Flock’s long-held position has…
How to Block Spammers, Scammers, and Telemarketers on Your Phone
…Unfortunately, blocking individual numbers isn’t very effective when telemarketers or scammers are contacting you, as they use multiple numbers and change them frequently. But there is something else you can do…
Qobuz Is the Anti-Spotify Music Streamer You’ve Been Waiting For
…The first winds of change arrived with Liz Pelly’s January 2025 book Mood Machine, which criticized Spotify’s business practices, featuring interviews with former employees and artists calling for fairer industry…
Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
…The research team at the University of California, led by neurosurgeon Edward Chang, had combined this brain-computer interface with an animated avatar of Johnson’s head, which spoke in her own…
7 Apps to Help You Trim Down Subscriptions—and Save Money
…While we have no reason to suspect any of these apps are untrustworthy, you should definitely read through their privacy policies before allowing them to peek into your wallet. Trim It's…
The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths
…With cases such as Amaurie’s piling up, OpenAI made some changes to ChatGPT in September. The company is rolling out “age prediction” technology, meaning that when a user is identified as…
Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
…Digitization at scale, however, has changed the game. More powerful computers can search through massive databases with relative ease, combining DNA evidence with location information and other personal data. To understand the…
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
…He manages to evade most of my questions about their identities, changing the topic to more interesting things, like the “inverse singularity” (his idea that humanity will approach a point where our…