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California recently passed a law that will, in practice, cause AI chatbots to respond to any hint of emotional distress by spamming users with 988 crisis line numbers, or by cutting off the convers ...

Last week the Trump FCC quietly announced that it was cooking up a new ban on any labs that have testing offices in China from testing electronic devices such as smartphones, cameras and computers ...

While we've taken some issues with his approach to copyright laws and enforcement in the past, there is no doubting that Steven Soderbergh is a filmmaking legend. This is a man who directed f ...

The NYPD's biggest union is back in lawsuit mode. As usual, the impetus is accountability and transparency -- things the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) and NYPD have been opposed to ...

Last December, Justice Alito told Texans they had to vote under an unconstitutional gerrymander because changing maps in December would deprive them of "certainty" before the 2026 midte ...

Flock Safety's reputation is in tatters, thanks in large part to its own actions. First sold as a high-tech add-on for homeowners' associations and gated communities, it soon spread to ...

Adobe Lightroom is a cloud-based photo editing and organizing tool designed for photographers of all levels. With an intuitive interface and advanced features, it allows you to create stunning imag ...

A key takeaway of the Trump II admin is that they came in declaring a whole bunch of things to be stupid and worth ripping apart, only to later realize how important and structurally necessary thos ...

Good news if you really enjoy corporatism, autocracy, propaganda and a violently misinformed electorate!The U.S. has fallen to sixty-fourth place (now below Ukraine) in the annual Reporters Without ...

The Trump administration's war on science has been a furious one. Be it deep cuts to scientific research, policies that ignore scientific research, or the appointment of deeply unscientific p ...