Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for Its DatabaseClearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.
She Blew the Whistle on Meta’s ‘Lethal Carelessness.’ Now She’s Being Silenced.The “free speech” champion Mark Zuckerberg tries to shut up a critic.
‘AI Valley’ Author Worries There’s ‘So Much Power in the Hands of Few People’Author Gary Rivlin says regulation can help control how AI is used: “AI could be an amazing thing around health, medicine, scientific discoveries, education ... as long as we’re deliberate about it.”
Windows 11’s Hidden FAQ Could Tell You Why Your PC Is So SlowMicrosoft is testing a new Windows 11 FAQ feature to answer questions about the components that could he holding your PC back, but it’s unclear how useful it will be.
A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat UpOver the past decade, encrypted communication has become the norm for billions of people.
When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese ImmigrantsThe town of Rock Springs sprouts out of a vacant landscape of sandstone cliffs and sagebrush in southern Wyoming. It is a fading former mining town, where herds of deer now meander through the streets. A century-old sign overlooking the railroad tracks downtown reads “Home of Rock Springs Coal.
My Office Is Apparently a Dog Sanctuary. I Can’t Take It Anymore.Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here. It’s anonymous! The dogs are not large, but they are loud and poorly behaved.
Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space TestsNestled at the foot of a steep, forested hill, 16 kilometers outside Wellington, New Zealand is a rather unassuming building; one among many on a research campus that was first established in the 1940s.
Snow White and the Seven Kajillion ControversiesDisney knew that remaking “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” as a live-action musical would be treacherous. But the studio was feeling cocky.
America’s Christian Right Is Coming to the U.K.The red-white-and-blue world of Christian nationalism is a fascinating place, but it can also get claustrophobic. After a dozen years of reporting on the subject, I began to feel restless and perhaps at times a little unsafe.
Dear James: I Miss Being on Dating AppsI’ve hit the relationship jackpot. But now I have romance FOMO. Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles readers’ questions.
Volvo’s ES90 is a high-riding electric sedan with 434 miles of rangeThe ES90 is Volvo’s longest-range, fastest-charging, and most advanced EV ever. The ES90 is Volvo’s longest-range, fastest-charging, and most advanced EV ever.
‘He Has to Shrink Away From Greatness’: The Poignant Surrender of a Republican Under TrumpFew Republican senators give a better floor speech than Thom Tillis of North Carolina does. He’s the Daniel Day-Lewis of moral outrage.
Judge blocks Trump from using 18th-century wartime act for deportationsDonald Trump has invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport five Venezuelan nationals from the US. Civil liberties organizations have accused Trump of invoking the 1798 act unlawfully during peacetime to accelerate mass deportations and sidestep immigration law.