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The Verge Aug 14 Score 0.8155753680555556

Trump declares 100 percent tariffs on many drones and all aircraft parts

The United States has already banned future foreign drones from entering the United States unless their companies kiss the ring - as well as routers, robots, and Roombas. Now, President Donald Trump is targeting existing drone imports and parts, too. He's goin

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Wired Aug 13 Score 0.8114383541666668

The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI

OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

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The Verge Aug 13 Score 0.8100225902777779

The fight over Flock and other ALPRs

There are over 120,000 of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, use AI to identify and track vehicles based on their license plate number, make, model, color, and other info, net

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The Verge Aug 13 Score 0.8099193495370371

Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier

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MIT Technology Review Aug 13 Score 0.8087350296296297

Roundtables: Inside the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" Idea Shaping US Policy

Listen to the session or watch below The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and research groups is collaborating to suppress conservative online speech. This was fodder for the right-wing information sphere for years

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MIT Technology Review Aug 13 Score 0.8040600296296297

Building a practical path to post-quantum cryptography

Quantum computing has alternated between breakthrough darling and overhyped promise in technology circles. Its powerful new capabilities come with a threat to break current cryptography, but for business leaders navigating the noise, the signal should be clear

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MIT Technology Review Aug 13 Score 0.7965452148148149

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid concerns about mass surveillance and pol

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MIT Technology Review Aug 13 Score 0.7940128074074074

The Download: kids' thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. How kids feel about AI, in their own words —Jen Swetzoff and Keeley McNamara, the founding editors of Anyway, an independe

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MIT Technology Review Aug 13 Score 0.7904016962962963

What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse

This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere. June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began. The contiguous US endured its hottest month on record in July. South Korea saw its highest-ever record

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Platformer Aug 14 Score 0.7390834425925926

Town's CEO on the self-organizing company

Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"

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