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October 13, 2023
Blue checks aren’t protecting sex workers from X’s porn crackdown
By Morgan Sung | |
When X (formerly Twitter) launched paid subscription verification, Mistress Rouge,
Rumors of a ‘Global Day of Jihad’ Have Unleashed a Dangerous Wave of Disinformation
By David Gilbert | |
Yesterday, FBI director Christopher Wray attempted to assure the Jewish
The Upshot of Microsoft’s Activision Deal: Big Tech Can Get Even Bigger
President Biden’s top antitrust officials have used novel arguments over
How long is it secure to keep your phone? Probably up to eight years.
By Shira Ovide | |
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Week 2 of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial wraps up
By Karyne Levy | |
Good morning! I’m Karyne Levy, managing editor of TechCrunch+, and
This mathematician is making sense of nature’s complexity
By Elise Cutts | |
To Domokos, 61, a professor at the Budapest University of
X’s Sneaky New Ads Might Be Illegal
By Vittoria Elliott | |
Last week, Mashable reported that on X (formerly Twitter), users
Microsoft Closes $69 Billion Activision Blizzard Deal
Microsoft on Friday said it closed its $69 billion purchase
Shadow silent on data breach as hacked data appears genuine
By Carly Page | |
A data breach at French cloud gaming provider Shadow may
The Download: a new brain atlas, and using maths to make sense of nature
By Rhiannon Williams | |
Scientists have unveiled the most compete atlas of the human
Google Pixel Watch 2 Review: About Time
By Julian Chokkattu | |
I had a lot of gripes about the first-ever Pixel
Experts Worry as Facial Recognition Comes to Airports and Cruises
By Julie Weed | |
If biometric data is stolen or misused, travelers don’t have
AI voice clones are all over social media, and they’re hard to detect
By Pranshu Verma, Will Oremus | |
Comment on this storyCommentDays before a pivotal national election in
Tradeshift co-founder accused of sexual assault by company, allegations he denies
By Mike Butcher | |
Tradeshift, a late-stage fintech startup that has raised over $1
Think that your plastic is being recycled? Think again.
By Douglas Main | |
Some states, though, have instituted policies that actually hinder progress.
A Groundbreaking Human Brain Cell Atlas Just Dropped
By Celia Ford | |
Today, an international team of researchers shared an extraordinarily detailed
‘A.I. Obama’ and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok
In a slickly produced TikTok video, former President Barack Obama
Indian state government fixes website bug that revealed Aadhaar numbers and fingerprints
By Zack Whittaker | |
A security researcher says a bug on an Indian state
How AI could supercharge battery research
By Casey Crownhart | |
That massive climate bill is still on everyone’s minds over
A New Tool Helps Artists Thwart AI—With a Middle Finger
By Kate Knibbs | |
Meanwhile, bot-protection companies like DataDome have been offering services to
The 7 Best Pranks From TV and Movies
By Joe Berkowitz | |
THE EVIDENCE is overwhelming: Pranks are fun to watch. That’s