Password breaches are a common occurrence, and if you use the same password on every site, that may grant access to bad actors who try out that password elsewhere to get into your accounts. The best way to protect yourself is to use a unique password everywhere (and two-factor authentication,...

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research

Universities need to form a large and powerful bloc to resist attempts to illegitimately remake higher education.

In this light, AI-generated "fiction" is already broken from the get-go. What makes fiction interesting and compelling is, in large part, the spark of recognition: of seeing your experience reflected by someone else, of seeing how someone else sees and experiences the world, of recognising something in a story that you can take from it and put into your own life. This - all of this - is deeply dependent on the aforementioned relationality of fiction: fiction without an author feels wrong, and almost fraudulent, as though the person who generated the story is lying to you by pretending to have had experiences, thoughts and feelings that he actually hasn't. The reaction this generates is a subconscious level of disgust and violation, as we're expected to pretend that (in this case) Sam Altman has feelings that he's never shown any evidence of being capable of.

The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.

Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissi...

.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 05/06/2025 · 59m

Increasingly, academic freedom is being threatened from a whole host of directions. Politicians in many states have passed laws banning the teaching of certain “concepts” and shuttering DEI offices. T...