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Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say.

Geopolitics is the analysis of geographic influences on power relationships in international relations, a succinct enough sentence for one of the primary factors affecting how states interact with …

Commentary: A Seattle pastor who has staked out ground in Browne’s Addition says Spokane — and this reporter — is out to get him.

H.P. Lovecraft's Cat refers to the cat named Nigger-Man owned by the family of the American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft during his childhood. Onli

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1997 non-fiction work by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson

In the vice president’s eyes, it’s us versus them.

Your screen time produces trillions in economic value that GDP doesn't measure

On the responsibility of citizens to be informed about their world.

From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.

The war in Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has unfortunately made us all familiar with details of the petroleum supply chain that we could formerly happily ignore.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto for The Verge: I tested three Windows laptops in the MacBook Neo’s price range — there’s no contest Each has an eight-core processor (versus six on the Neo), 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB, and between 256GB and 1TB of storage — the slowest of which

A Crisis Dispatch

They will understand it when it arrives. That will be too late.

Frontier M&A paths diverge, OpenAI pushes policy amid chaos, Mythos proved too dangerous to ship, Meta gets back in the game, Anthropic goes all-in on agents

Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

And yes, I hate consortia too.

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OpenAI brainstorms ways AI can benefit humanity in effort to counter bad vibes.