British researchers and a team from Google found that teaching people how to spot misinformation made people more skeptical of it.
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We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting
We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.
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A 5-Step Checklist for Handling Air Travel Woes on the Go
With planning and a well-stocked smartphone, you can map out a strategy for dealing with flight disruptions.
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Twitter executives push back against whistle-blower complaint.
The narrative created by the company’s former head of security is “false,” executives said at an all-hands meeting.
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Plex imposes password reset after hackers steal data for >15 million users
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Streaming media platform Plex on Wednesday said it was hacked by intruders who managed to access a proprietary database and make off with password data, usernames, and emails belonging to at least half of its 30 million customers. “Yesterday, we discovered suspicious activity on one of our databases,” company officials wrote...
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Twitter’s Former Security Chief Accuses Company of ‘Egregious’ Practices
The whistle-blower also said Twitter had lied to Elon Musk, who is trying to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social media service.
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To Fight Election Falsehoods, Social Media Companies Ready a Familiar Playbook
Platforms like TikTok and Facebook are planning anti-misinformation strategies that resemble those used in 2020.
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Can Uber Be Useful and Do Us Good?
New research suggests that ride services in India might cut pollution. We haven’t seen this in the U.S.
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Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code
Enlarge / Brian Kernighan speaking at a tribute to his Bell Labs coworker and The C Programming Language co-author Dennis Ritchie in 2012. Ritchie’s visage in dominoes is behind Kernighan. (credit: Ben Lowe/Flickr) A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago....
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A Teen’s Journey Into the Internet’s Darkness and Back Again
As anxiety and depression soar among adolescents, researchers struggle to understand how exactly social media affects mental health.