Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Companies are ignoring your privacy demands. No one is stopping them.
An experiment by Consumer Reports suggests companies may not be consistently complying with data privacy laws. Source link
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They were stuck in space for 9 months. They’d go back ‘in a heartbeat.’
In their first news conference since returning to Earth, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore praised the Starliner and described the challenge of being far from family for so long. Source link
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Radio City Music Hall banned him. A T-shirt and AI might be to blame.
Security may have used facial recognition technology to escort a man out of a concert. He once designed a Knicks shirt that criticized the team’s owner. Source link
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Huge OpenAI funding round hinges on shedding nonprofit status
The ChatGPT maker is raising $40 billion, but it won’t get all of that money unless it transitions into a for-profit company. Source link
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Silicon Valley’s immigrant workers fear targeting from Trump administration
Uncertainty around high-skilled visas is rattling the immigrant tech community in Silicon Valley long viewed as one of the key pillars of U.S. innovation Source link
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Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ launches with some features
Internal documents obtained by The Post show that many of the new Alexa+ features won’t be available immediately. Source link
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Inside the online effort to foil Trump’s deportation raids
On social media, immigrants and their allies are working together to track ICE officers in real time. Source link
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DOGE wants businesses to run government services ‘as much as possible’
Elon Musk’s effort is pushing privatization — a longtime goal for conservatives and for Silicon Valley alike — across federal agencies Source link
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Meet the militant Jewish group backing Trump’s deportation push
As the Trump administration cracks down on antisemitism, Zionist group Betar has emerged as an ally, volunteering names of activists it wants detained next. Source link
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AI generated Ghibli images go viral as OpenAI loosens its rules
OpenAI is shifting its policies around copying artistic styles, even as the debate over what AI companies owe artists is still raging Source link
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