Internet
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Google to purge billions of personal data files
Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the…
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How internet anonymity allows toxic trolls to express their ‘true’ psychopathic tendencies
In short: Psychologists have found that internet trolls are more likely to have latent psychopathic and sadistic traits. A study has…
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How Networked Incitement Fueled the Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection
The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the nonviolent rallies that categorized most major protests…
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E.U. reaches deal on landmark AI bill, racing ahead of U.S.
The regulation paves the way for what could become a global standard to classify risk, enforce transparency and financially penalize…
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Will AI replace writers — and the rest of us? An L.A. scholar-poet games out the future
On the labor front, streaming businesses like Netflix have robbed TV writers of residuals; song lyricists have been decimated by Spotify; and…
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Young people need more support coping with online sexual harms
While that increased connectivity brings many benefits, it can also open youth up to online harm and abuse. Authors The…
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Artist tests limits of ‘human authorship’ of AI art as battle continues over who holds copyright
Last year, Kris Kashtanova typed instructions for a graphic novel into a new, artificial intelligence program and touched off a…
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Big Tech giving European consumers what they deny Americans
”Tech companies have built a perfect record so far in blocking major legislation in Congress,” The Wall Street Journal observed as…
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How Ukraine is winning the social media war
Ukrainian counter-offensives continue to make progress, while Russian forces are still pressing elsewhere. Paul Adams BBC But on the internet,…
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Australia’s changing how it regulates the internet — and no-one’s paying attention
Often this decision is in corporate hands: Facebook, TikTok and most major social media platforms have rules about what material…
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Here’s why misinformation is a smaller problem than you think
In this telling, claims spread by internet crackpots are amplified by partisan news networks and social media to the point…
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Log4j: what you need to know
But, every now and then, there is a major security event or discovery of a new critical zero-day vulnerability that…
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The government’s planned ‘anti-troll’ laws won’t help most victims of online trolling
Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard Morrison decry trolls as “cowardly” and “un-Australian”, language that made it into the…
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Israeli firm’s spyware linked to attacks on websites in UK and Middle East
Researchers have found new evidence that suggests spyware made by an Israeli company that was recently blacklisted in the US…
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Myanmar’s Military Struggles to Control the Virtual Battlefield
Outside powers and technology companies should endeavour to keep the online space free of interference and deny the junta tools…
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How to protect children online without using tough rules and reprimands
With much of the world in some form of lockdown, this year’s Safer Internet Day will be different. Tom Harrison…
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