Politics
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‘Thunder Run’: Behind Lawmakers’ Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok…
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Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR
Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters…
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TikTok Faces E.U. Inquiry Over ‘Addictive’ Features
European officials threatened to fine TikTok and force it to remove some features, the latest regulatory challenge for the Chinese-owned…
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A.I.-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material May Overwhelm Tip Line
A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t have the resources to…
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The Music Episode
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton Produced…
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Apple Says It Was Ordered to Pull WhatsApp From China App Store
Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads in its China app offerings Friday on Beijing’s orders, amid technological tensions between…
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Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest…
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How a Crypto Compliance Officer Ended Up in a Nigerian Prison
Tigran Gambaryan, an American compliance official for the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, flew to Nigeria in February for a planned…
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Countdown Is On for the Bitcoin ‘Halving’
Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the…
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TikTok Bill Is Bundled With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
A new House measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s…