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"Right to Repair for Your Body": The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
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The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders
Telegram Founder Pavel Durov's Indictment Thrusts Encryption Into the Spotlight
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Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France
TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl's death, US court rules
Chick-Fil-A Hatches Plans For Streaming Service
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Epic judge says he'll 'tear the barriers down' on Google's app store monopoly
Google's AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die
OpenAI signs multi-year content partnership with Condé...

Google (GOOGL) Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search Engine on Phone Browsers
Will Google's historic monopoly lawsuit be the death knell for Mozilla and Firefox?
Scoop: X files antitrust lawsuit...

Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It's Still Losing Money.
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Galaxy fold unboxing
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Craig Newmark and pancakes
After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome
Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds
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AT&T says criminals stole phone records of "nearly all" customers in new data breach
AT&T (T) Hack Is Part of Snowflake (SNOW) Customer Cyberattack Campaign
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'We're Living in a Nightmare:' Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral
ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed...

In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections
In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even...

Google announces surprise Pixel 9 hardware event in August
Jeff Jarvis testimony on the California Journalism Preservation Act
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The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
Tesla takes fight for Elon Musk's...

Apple Introduces Image Playground - a new AI image tool
Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
Hallucination is Inevitable
Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call
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'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?
Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban
Unanimous SCOTUS To States: No Strong-Arming Third...

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter
OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins...

Scarlett Johansson was 'shocked, angered' by ChatGPT voice that sounded like her
It's Time to Believe the AI Hype
Steven Levy's Extremely Stupid AI Piece
Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps...

Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Alex Kantrowitz react live to the Google I/O presentation.
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'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed
The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade!
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Google is building a fart button into Android
The Rabbit R1 is loosely based on Android after all
Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength
Google plans $3 billion data...

'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
TikTok ban would be a gift from Congress to Meta and Google
How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge
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