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Recent reports have raised alarm about the use of PatronScan, an ID-checking and face-scanning system, at multiple LGBTQ+ bars in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood. Much of the att ...

As perhaps a few Elon Musk fans may remember, he got really annoyed at Wikipedia last year and tasked his second-rate LLM, Grok, with recreating it as "Grokipedia." Grokipedia, launched ...

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Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers were first sold as upmarket add-ons for gated communities and HOA curtain-twitchers who wanted to keep tabs on what everyone was doing, whether ...

I've written a few times now about how the Trump administration hijacked a $42.5 billion broadband investment fund included in the 2021 infrastructure bill, stripped away requirements that th ...

A couple of weeks ago we discussed how the cuts made to HHS and specifically the CDC's FoodNet tracking platform were making it much harder to track and back trace the source of the country&#

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a ...

Donald Trump took possession of a $400 million "gift" plane from the Qatari government earlier this year. Trump claimed it was a coup for taxpayers and a boon for America, even as he ma ...

The rise of AI is bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than many expect. The latest one: who is liable if an agentic system running on its own hacks someone? Th ...

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