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US courts must stop shielding government surveillance programs from accountability
Imagine the government has searched your home without a warrant or probable cause, rifling through your files, your bedroom dresser, your diary. You sue, arguing…
Children May Be Losing the Equivalent of One Night’s Sleep a Week From Social Media Use, Study Suggests
Children under 12 may be losing the equivalent of one night's sleep every week due to excessive social media use, a new study suggests. Insider…
Sleepless Nights Make People More Selfish and Asocial, Study Finds
A study found losing just one hour of rest could kill people's desire to help others, even relatives and close friends. The team noted that…
YouTuber Trains AI On 4Chan’s Most Hateful Board
YouTuber Yannic Kilcher trained an AI language model using three years of content from 4chan's Politically Incorrect (/pol/) board, a place infamous for its racism…
Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe
The ripple effects of the scandal are reaching the heart of the European Union. Over the past 13 months, it has been revealed that spyware…
‘Greenwashing’: Tree-Planting Schemes Are Just Creating Tree Cemeteries
Thousands of cylindrical plastic tree guards line the grassland here, so uniform that, from a distance, it looks like a war memorial. This open space…
Facebook Misinformation Is Bad Enough, The Metaverse Will Be Worse
The Rand Corporation is an American (nonprofit) think tank. And veliath (Slashdot reader #5,435) spotted their recent warning about "a plausible scenario that could soon…
Ethanol Plants Are Allowed To Pollute More Than Oil Refineries
In 2007, the U.S. Congress mandated the blending of biofuels such as corn-based ethanol into gasoline. One of the top goals: reducing greenhouse gas emissions.…
Negative-prompt AI-Generated Images of Women Generate Gore and Horror
AI image generators like DALL-E and Midjourney have become an especially buzzy topic lately, and it's easy to see why. Using machine learning models trained…
Facebook Button is Disappearing From Websites as Consumers Demand Better Privacy
Other big brands, including Best Buy, Ford Motor, Pottery Barn, Nike, Patagonia, Match and Amazon's video-streaming service Twitch have removed the ability to sign on…
GPS Jammers Are Being Used to Hijack Trucks and Down Drones
The world's freight-carrying trucks and ships use GPS-based satellite tracking and navigation systems, reports ZDNet. But "Criminals are turning to cheap GPS jamming devices to…
Scope creep: Woman Whose Rape Kit DNA Led To Her Arrest
A rape victim whose DNA from her sexual assault case was used by San Francisco police to arrest her in an unrelated property crime on…
World Heading Into ‘Uncharted Territory of Destruction,’ Says Climate Report
Despite intensifying warnings in recent years, governments and businesses have not been changing fast enough, according to the United in Science report published on Tuesday.…
Plastic Might Be Making You Obese
The global obesity epidemic is getting worse, especially among children, with rates of obesity rising over the past decade and shifting to earlier ages. In…
This law makes it illegal for companies to collect third-party data to profile you. But they do anyway.
When you purchase a product or service from a company, fill out an online form, or sign up for a newsletter, you might provide only…
Facebook Engineers: We Have No Idea Where We Keep All Your Personal Data
In March, two veteran Facebook engineers found themselves grilled about the company’s sprawling data collection operations in a hearing for the ongoing lawsuit over the…
Overrun by Influencers, Historic Sites Are Banning TikTok Creators in Nepal
They come in hordes, strike funny poses, dance to loud music, trample over crops, and often stir up unmanageable crowds that cause traffic jams. TikTok…
Too Many Servers Could Mean No New Homes In Parts of the UK
Data centers have caused skyrocketing power demand in parts of London. Now, new housing construction could be banned for more than a decade in some…
Police Across US Bypass Warrants With Mass Location-Tracking Tool
As summer winds down, researchers warned this week about systemic vulnerabilities in mobile app infrastructure, as well as a new iOS security flaw and one…
Inside the biggest human surveillance experiment on the planet
It was in this techno-authoritarian wave that a facial recognition mania costing tens of billions of dollars began. Government policies with sci-fi names like SkyNet…