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Digital life
fromGadget Review
4 days ago

Your Devices Spy Today, Tomorrow They Will Make Decisions Behind Your Back

Surveillance technology embedded in smart TVs, phones, and digital devices prioritizes advertiser profit and engagement metrics over user privacy and genuine preferences.
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Our consciousness is under siege': Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom

Human consciousness faces threats from algorithmic manipulation and political intrusion, requiring deliberate practices to protect our internal mental freedom and attention.
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

We need a 'Stop, Drop, and Roll' PSA for the AI age

AI models like ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 can wolf down up to a dozen reference files-images, audio tracks, and camera movement samples-to flawlessly synthesize an alternate reality with no uncanny valley. And it costs only pennies do so.
Artificial intelligence
Relationships
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

How to Break Up with Your Phone

A digital companion becomes intimate and indispensable while simultaneously surveilling, praising, shaming, and shaping behavior and tastes, creating dependency and loss of autonomy.
France news
fromTheregister
1 month ago

French cops raid X's Paris office in algorithmic bias probe

French police raided X’s Paris offices amid a criminal probe into alleged algorithmic manipulation, deepfakes, Holocaust denial content, and organized crime-related charges.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

How I Made a Million in 90 Days review this wildly funny stunt is an ingenious take on extreme wealth

A prankster uses social-media get-rich-quick schemes to try to make a million pounds in 90 days, exposing and embodying the emptiness of entrepreneurial culture.
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