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Ad company spurs paranoia that 'your devices are listening to you' — here's how to check

A marketing company claims, "It's true. Your devices are listening to you." With Android and iOS built-in protections, this simply isn't likely.

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AI-generated books: the rising tide of junk

The first book about the Maui wildfires hit Amazon just two days after the disaster struck, said Kevin Hurler on Gizmodo. The 86-page self-published volume, Fire and Fury, briefly jumped to No. 1 in Amazon’s “environmental science” category. Problem is, “evidence that the book was simply churned out by a machine…

The Week

Ben Smith's One Neat Trick for Going Viral

The Semafor editor and former BuzzFeed News editor in chief on the online media explosion of the 2000s.

Reason

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Bot Mess: AI-Generated Clickbait Will Hasten the Demise of Search and Web Publishing

Publishers have been using AIs to write articles in hopes of ranking in Google, but these attempts are going to backfire.

Tom’s Hardware

Is Tesla skipping out on Apple's 30% app tax?

One of Tesla's subscription options might be dodging Apple's 30% cut according to one report.

iMore

James Gunn Confirms a 'Guardians 3' Theory That Reveals His Trilogy’s Secret Theme

Did you hear what Groot said? It means you're part of the family.

Inverse

Did Microsoft sabotage Google? Update suspiciously breaks popular Chrome feature

Microsoft has been accused of rolling out a new update that borks a Chrome feature that allowed users to change their default browser in one click.

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How long will it take for humans to colonize another planet?

There's a huge difference between sending humans to Mars and colonizing worlds outside our solar system.

LiveScience

Examination of USC doctor’s earlier books finds more troubling instances of plagiarism

LOS ANGELES — With just days to go before the publication of his already-bestselling title, “The Book of Animal Secrets,” Dr. David Agus said he was surprised to learn that at least 95 passages appeared to be copied from other uncredited sources, sometimes word for word.

Los Angeles Times

Are you too fat for Universal’s new Mario Kart ride? The average American guy is

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Critics are blasting the new Super Nintendo attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood as “blatantly fatphobic” because the augmented reality dark ride has a size restriction that will leave many Americans with larger waistlines on the sidelines.

The Orange County Register

Why the Tabletop Role-Playing World Is Furious About Changes to Dungeons & Dragons' Open Game License

For 20 years, D&D has offered third-party publishers an open, royalty-free license to create new works using its game. A leaked revision would end all of that.

Reason

FTX's SBF: I'm the 3rd-biggest GOP donor

The FTX founder says he kept donations private because "reporters freak the f--k out if you donate to Republicans"

Salon

Gawker makes a comeback six years after it was sued into closure

A new version of the website, quietly launched a year ago under new owners, is attracting interest and readers again

The Guardian - US

‘Wildfire of disinformation’: how Chevron exploits a news desert

As the closures of newspapers leave Americans struggling for information, Chevron has swooped in to serve up a mixture of local news and propaganda

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In-person teaching has resumed in the US – but electronic snooping hasn’t stopped

School surveillance software is marketed as a way to keep kids safe, but experts are concerned it’s used to punish students rather than protect them

Reason

Authors Locked Out of Files Because of Their Ideological Content?

Today's post by Prof. Victor Mair (Language Log) also led me to this story, which is covered in the Wall Street Journal (Wenxin Fan) (paywalled) and also at Gizmodo (Passant Rabie) (unpaywalled) and MIT Technology Review (Zeyi Yang); I quite from Gizmodo: A Chinese software developer is facing backlash after…

Input

Twitter shadow banned ads for HBO's QAnon documentary last year

In one of the few verifiable instances of internal suppression, Twitter cracked down on anti-QAnon content.

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