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Everyone's pissed at the tech industry. And for good reason. The term enshittification is super popular for many valid reasons. Companies that used to provide real value, are now focused on e ...

Not that long ago, John Oliver's Last Week Tonight did a good bit on why public broadcasting is important. The segment features a lot of insight from Penn State media professor Victor Pickard ...

ACIP is meeting this week, which means we all get to clench our sphincters as we await whatever small, medium, or large sized horrors will come out of this panel of clowns. It wasn't always t ...

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Despite all the recent hype about "AI," the technology still struggles with very basic things and remains prone to significant errors. Which makes it maybe not the best idea to rush the ...

A new bill sponsored by Sen. Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen. Britt (R-AL), Sen. Warner (D-VA), and Sen. Murphy (D-CT) would require AI chatbots to verify all users' ages, prohibit minor ...

The Court of Justice of the EU--likely without realizing it--just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated con ...

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A recent shooting involving a former Afghani US counter-terrorism asset who worked with the CIA (!!!) has become the tragedy the Trump administration apparently needed to go from "consistentl ...

Earlier this year we noted how the Trump administration had cooked up a half-assed wireless phone company. Even calling it a "phone company" was being generous: the branding deal w ...