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23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online

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09 Oct 2023

Pretty much the worst thing that could happen as an outcome of using a service like this.  #Technology

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When the AI boom subsides, the data centers will remain. What we do now matters

Data centers are the new factories. How we think about the precedents they set matters.

27 May 2026

The Pope used his first encyclical to warn about tech centralization

"When such power is concentrated in the hands of a few, it tends to become opaque and evade public oversight, [giving] rise to new dependencies, exclusions, manipulations and inequalities."

25 May 2026

Affordances for me, but not for thee

For years, people have tried hard to get websites to build accessibility affordances. Now developers are willingly building them for AI.

22 May 2026

Like sunrise over a sink

It appears that the winner of a short story prize was generated with AI. But how was it selected?

21 May 2026
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