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TikTok’s airport hack: miracle or madness?
TikTok’s “airport theory” promises to get travelers through security and onto their flights in under 20 minutes. But is this viral hack a clever shortcut or a recipe for disaster?
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Algorithmic surveillance helped Amazon crush unionizing effort
The 2021 union vote at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama ended with employees voting against unionizing. A new study says the tech giant manipulated the process using algorithmic tricks.
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World’s “biggest” Elon Musk protest staged in Wales
"Don’t buy a Tesla" was raked into the sand by protesters on a Welsh beach alongside a silhouette of Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute.
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Goodbye cables, hello lasers: Alphabet’s plan to outshine Starlink
The internet’s future could be floating through the air – Alphabet’s Taara is betting on laser beams replacing traditional cables, and being a major competitor to Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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Bite-sized no more: why TikTokers now crave longer videos
TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram are embracing longer videos, shifting away from the 15-60 second norms. Here’s why audiences and creators are all for it.
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Trump targets Biden's pardons: is autopen signing legitimate?
Trump claims Biden’s autopen-signed pardons are invalid, raising questions about the legitimacy of using machines for presidential power. But what is an autopen?
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Pirate Bay’s first financier dies in plane crash
Carl Lundstrom, the first financial supporter of The Pirate Bay (TPB), has died following a plane crash in the Slovenian mountains.
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Anti-Elon crusades in US and Europe make Tesla their main target
People have had enough of Elon Musk. Americans are protesting DOGE cuts by vandalizing Teslas, while Europeans denounce Musk’s support of far-right parties by posting Nazi ads across London.
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Threat hunters successfully use OpenAI’s Operator for phishing attack
AI agents such as Operator, recently introduced by OpenAI, might indeed enhance productivity. However, a threat hunter team has successfully demonstrated that they can also become new attack vectors.
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We tried out Murena as a way to escape Google’s powerful data collection claws
Murena, a French company urging web users to "escape the digital surveillance," has released some privacy-focused smartphones in the past. Now, there's also a tablet available. We tried it out.
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While DOJ keeps pushing Google, other US tech giants watch uneasily
Surprise, surprise. It looks like US President Donald Trump agrees with his predecessor Joe Biden about something at least – the much-changed Justice Department apparently still wants Google to be broken up. That’s bad news for all the other large tech firms out there.
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Digital activists oppose US bill protecting children online: why?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a prominent digital rights group, has once again expressed its opposition to a bill intended to protect children from online sexual exploitation. Activists say it’s quite simple: the document does no such thing.
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Altman shares a short story written by AI: will we even need writers?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has teased a new creative writing AI model, posting a short story written entirely by a machine. It’s not good news for the world’s writers.
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EU and South Korea come to Digital Trade Agreement
EU and South Korea have wrapped up negotiations for a Digital Trade Agreement (DTA).
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US consumer watchdog agency reveals that top scams of 2024 led to losses of $12B
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says top scams, including imposter fraud, identity theft, and fake crypto investments, cost consumers more than $12 billion in 2024 – over $2 billion more in losses than the previous year.
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Internet blows up after Elon Musk calls decorated Navy vet Mark Kelly a “traitor”
Tesla could take another hit as the carmaker’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, digs himself deeper into a hole by attacking Mark Kelly, the Democrat senator from Arizona.
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Trump administration launches new “self-deportation” app
The Trump administration has rolled out a new app that will allow immigrants in the United States illegally to "self deport" rather than face possible arrest and detention.
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Hacktivists protest Musk and Trump by shutting down X for tens of thousands
The self-proclaimed hacktivist group Dark Storm on Monday is claiming responsibility for an ongoing outage impacting X to protest the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump.
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