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New Study Reveals the Manipulative ‘Dark Patterns’ of AI Chatbots

404 Media16w16 weeks agoHN Covered by35 min read

Non-Academic AI/LLM Research Productivity: A Quick Comparative Analysis of 2023 and 2024, FTC Report Shows Rise in Sophisticated Dark Patterns Designed to Trick and Trap Consumers

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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags

404 Media16w16 weeks agoHN Covered by125 min read

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The Sun is undergoing a mysterious magnetic change, say scientists

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‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription

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Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many?

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Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

404 Media16w16 weeks agoHN Covered by37 min read

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts, Psychiatrists say RFK Jr.'s take on SSRIs is an 'oversimplification' of the problem

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‘Lobotomized’: Character.AI Is Showing What AI Enshittification Looks Like

404 Media16w16 weeks agoHN Covered by25 min read

Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits over teen mental health harms and suicides, OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

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Indie Hackers, and more ›

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Podcast: How Deepfakes Destroyed a High School

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Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones (with Zack Whittaker)

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‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access

404 Media16w16 weeks agoHN2 Covered by127 min read

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BGR, Reason Magazine, and more ›

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The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets

An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation

404 Media16w16 weeks agoCovered by53 min read

Something Liberals and Conservatives Agree On: Hatred of Data Centers

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Dissent Magazine, beSpacific, and more ›

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‘Corpse Point’ In the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies

404 Media17w17 weeks agoHN6 min read

Nereid as a regular satellite of Neptune

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Here's the Bodycam Footage of the Cybertruck That Drove Into a Lake

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Behind the Blog: The Attention Wars

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How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart

404 Media17w17 weeks agoHN2 Covered by820 min read

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dbushell.com, Pixel Envy, and more ›

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This Archivist Has Saved 175,000 Articles from 30 Years of Writing about Magic: The Gathering

404 Media17w17 weeks agoCovered by44 min read

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Boing Boing, and more ›

The Oldest Evidence of Animal Sex Has Been Found, and It’s Mind-Boggling

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Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats

404 Media17w17 weeks agoHN Covered by43 min read

A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began

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Gizmodo, onfocus.com, and more ›

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After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban

404 Media17w17 weeks agoHN Covered by105 min read

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Podcast: Elites Just Don't Get AI

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