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AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)

3 days ago | anigbrowl | forbes.com | frontpage

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[flagged] House Republicans want to dox Wikipedia editors over 'bias' complaints (techdirt.com)

a week ago | anigbrowl | techdirt.com | frontpage

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SSA whistleblower's resignation email mysteriously disappeared from inboxes (wired.com)

a week ago | anigbrowl | wired.com | frontpage

2

Sony confirms critical flaw in IC chips used for Japan's transit cards (mainichi.jp)

a week ago | anigbrowl | mainichi.jp | newest

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End of low-value tariff exemption on packages is permanent, administration says (reuters.com)

a week ago | anigbrowl | reuters.com | frontpage

1

Researchers say AI 'deadbots' are primed for monetization (npr.org)

a week ago | anigbrowl | npr.org | newest

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Director of Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit Resigns (reuters.com)

a week ago | anigbrowl | reuters.com | frontpage

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DHS admits it no longer preserves text message data for top officials (americanoversight.org)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | americanoversight.org | frontpage

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Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems (kyodonews.net)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | best

2

'Cheapfake' AI celeb videos are rage baiting people on YouTube (wired.com)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | wired.com | newest

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Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations (apnews.com)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | apnews.com | best

1

A Climate of Unparalleled Malevolence (theguardian.com)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | theguardian.com | newest

2

Philip K Dick and the fake humans (2018) (bostonreview.net)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | bostonreview.net | newest

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Federal court decision finds cellphone tower-dumping searches unconstitutional (courtwatch.news)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | courtwatch.news | frontpage

2

PicoCalc (clockworkpi.com)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | clockworkpi.com | newest

5

AI may make dubbing for film and TV easier (bbc.com)

3 weeks ago | anigbrowl | bbc.com | frontpage

4

Trump reverse on Intel CEO, calls him 'success' days after demanding resignation (cnbc.com)

3 weeks ago | anigbrowl | cnbc.com | frontpage

3

Japanese government to use AI to teach language skills to kid with foreign roots (kyodonews.net)

3 weeks ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | newest

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Bureau of Labor Standards nominee suggests suspending monthly jobs report (axios.com)

3 weeks ago | anigbrowl | axios.com | newest

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Wplace – pixel art on a world map (wplace.live)

3 weeks ago | anigbrowl | wplace.live | newest

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Nvidia, AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US Government – reports (cnbc.com)

3 weeks ago | anigbrowl | cnbc.com | frontpage

4

Major Japan newspaper sues 'free-riding' AI firm Perplexity (japantimes.co.jp)

4 weeks ago | anigbrowl | japantimes.co.jp | frontpage

1

July 2025 Tech litigation roundup (techpolicy.press)

4 weeks ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

2

Rapidus is Japan's best bet. Will it be enough? (zososdispatches.substack.com)

4 weeks ago | anigbrowl | substack.com | newest

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Hubble catches sharpest image yet of 3I/ATLAS (skyatnightmagazine.com)

4 weeks ago | anigbrowl | skyatnightmagazine.com | frontpage

5

Age verification is coming for the whole internet (nymag.com)

4 weeks ago | anigbrowl | nymag.com | newest

1

Global fight over who governs communications satellites heats up (techpolicy.press)

4 weeks ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

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Trump eyes 100% tax on imports containing semiconductors (bloomberg.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Health Secretary cancels $500M in mRNA vaccine research (cbsnews.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | cbsnews.com | frontpage

3

Freedom of Information Act and Deteriorating Federal Transparency Infrastructure (justsecurity.org)

a month ago | anigbrowl | justsecurity.org | frontpage

39

Circadian justice (2022) (lse.ac.uk)

a month ago | anigbrowl | lse.ac.uk | frontpage

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WiFi signals could be used to uniquely identify individuals (techradar.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | techradar.com | newest

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Mark Zuckerberg is out of ideas (techpolicy.press)

a month ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

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Iran's plan to abandon GPS is about much more than technology (aljazeera.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | aljazeera.com | frontpage

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Japan Records Highest Temperature (aljazeera.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | aljazeera.com | newest

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Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76 (cnn.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | cnn.com | newest

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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm (nytimes.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | nytimes.com | best

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The unholy alliance that killed the AI moratorium (theverge.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | theverge.com | newest

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Information on Contrails from Aircraft (epa.gov)

a month ago | anigbrowl | epa.gov | newest

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Japan focusing on fix for smart-phone related eye condition (kyodonews.net)

a month ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | newest

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Over 2000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push (politico.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | politico.com | newest

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UK post office scandal led to 13 suspected suicides, says report (reuters.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | reuters.com | frontpage

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China is increasingly a home to major brands (musgrave.substack.com)

2 months ago | anigbrowl | substack.com | frontpage

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Michael Madsen has died (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | anigbrowl | nytimes.com | best

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'Explosive increase' in ticks that cause meat allergy due to climate change (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | anigbrowl | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Japan's H2A rocket retired after successful final launch (japantimes.co.jp)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | japantimes.co.jp | newest

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AI fakes duel over impeachment of Vice-President in Phillipines (afp.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | afp.com | frontpage

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White House ends all trade talks with Canada over digital services tax (cnbc.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Blind spots on American cars are expanding (streetsblog.org)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | streetsblog.org | frontpage

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Ranking generative AI companies from most to least evil (cwodtke.medium.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | medium.com | newest

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Hurricane forecasters scrambling after sudden shutdown of key satellites (notus.org)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | notus.org | frontpage

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Spotify's Daniel Ek leads €600M investment in AI military defence company (djmag.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | djmag.com | newest

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Health secretary wants every American to be sporting a wearable within 4 years (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | gizmodo.com | newest

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Tiny orange beads found by Apollo astronauts reveal Moon's explosive past (sciencedaily.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | sciencedaily.com | frontpage

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How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy (osf.io)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | osf.io | best

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Man arrested for selling AI-colorized pirated 1954 'Godzilla' film (kyodonews.net)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | newest

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National parks ordered to police 'negative' history under presidential directive (sfgate.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | sfgate.com | frontpage

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AI nudifiers pivot to video and reach users via Apple, Google, social media (indicator.media)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | indicator.media | newest

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Harvard researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos released from custody (cnn.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | cnn.com | frontpage

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[dupe] RFK jr removes all members of CDC panel advising US on vaccines (cnbc.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Japan telecom giant NTT Docomo to end own emoji after 26 years (kyodonews.net)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | frontpage

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Community fact-checking increases moral outrage in replies to misleading posts (acm.org)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | acm.org | newest

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Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics (yomiuri.co.jp)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | yomiuri.co.jp | best

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Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data (nbcnews.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | nbcnews.com | best

2

The Common Pile v0.1 (huggingface.co)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | huggingface.co | newest

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Ecologists horrified as nature reserves emptied of insects (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Silicon Valley is at an inflection point (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | nytimes.com | frontpage

5

Why would the US government ever refuse the US dollar? (thehill.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | thehill.com | frontpage

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Climate scientists hosting a 100-hour livestream in response to funding cuts (space.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | space.com | frontpage

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Why People Follow Rules (nature.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | nature.com | frontpage

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NYPD detectives may be tied to crypto millionaire torture case (nbcnewyork.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | nbcnewyork.com | newest

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Weaponized AI chatbot floods Canadian city councils with climate misinformation (desmog.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | desmog.com | frontpage

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HHS cancels –$600M contract with Moderna on vaccines for flu pandemics (statnews.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | statnews.com | frontpage

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Reinvigorating the nuclear industrial base (whitehouse.gov)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | whitehouse.gov | frontpage

3

Against Life Extension (persuasion.community)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | persuasion.community | newest

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Budget bill could decimate legal accountability for tech (techpolicy.press)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

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More than 100 National Security Council staffers put on administrative leave (cnn.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | cnn.com | frontpage

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Expert perspectives on 10-year moratorium of state AI laws (techpolicy.press)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

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Why both sides are right and wrong about a moratorium on state AI laws (techpolicy.press)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

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DOGE used Meta AI model to review emails from federal workers (wired.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | wired.com | frontpage

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White House purges transcripts of President's remarks from its website (nbcnews.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | nbcnews.com | frontpage

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Spain blocks 65,000 Airbnb holiday rental listings (reuters.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | reuters.com | frontpage

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The NSA Selector (github.com/wenzellabs)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | github.com | best

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Arithmophone (chielzwinkels.net)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | chielzwinkels.net | newest

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The Digital Panopticon Nightmare (thedissident.news)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | thedissident.news | newest

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What the government tried to keep hidden in IRS/ICE data sharing agreement (americanoversight.org)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | americanoversight.org | frontpage

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David Hilbert's radio address (2014) (maa.org)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | maa.org | frontpage

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Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes (sixthtone.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | sixthtone.com | best

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Director of US copyright office fired after release of AI report (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Is AI the future of American foreign policy? (npr.org)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | npr.org | newest

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Head of Library of Congress fired via email (usatoday.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | usatoday.com | frontpage

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Institutionalizing Politicized Science (science.org)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | science.org | frontpage

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Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science (nature.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | nature.com | frontpage

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Don't send in the clones: AI conference cancelled as accounts get reality check (japantimes.co.jp)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | japantimes.co.jp | newest

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The CIA Chief's son who went to fight for Russia (yahoo.com)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | yahoo.com | frontpage

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Trump-allied prosecutor sends letters to medical journals alleging bias (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | nytimes.com | frontpage

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'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government Covid sites (npr.org)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | npr.org | newest

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Energy and AI (iea.org)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | iea.org | frontpage

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Trump admin plans to end IRS direct file program (huffpost.com)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | huffpost.com | newest

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US conservatives far more skeptical of science than previously thought (independent.co.uk)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | independent.co.uk | frontpage