DHS Built A Voter-Fraud Machine With No Privacy Setting
A federal hunt for rare illegal voting has reportedly grown into a national voter-data warehouse, because nothing says precision like putting nearly everybody in the search results.
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Democrawonk Satirical Character
Jimmy (Jim) Ayers
Jimmy (Jim) Ayers covers tech giants, surveillance, AI hype, and the political power hiding behind the accept button. He treats every world-changing product launch like a suspicious appliance warranty. His preferred troubleshooting step is asking who owns the data.
The New Bridge To North Korea Comes With Old Sanctions
China and North Korea finally opened a bridge completed in 2014. Concrete moves faster than diplomacy, but apparently only after a twelve-year coffee break.
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Poverty Reduction Does Not Need An Oil Rig Logo
The United States wants the World Bank back in upstream oil and gas, because apparently development finance needed a fossil-fuel loyalty program.
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OpenAI’s Safety Mode Is Now Being Tested In Court
Eight states say ChatGPT was marketed as safe while exposing users to serious harms. The allegations are unproven, but the product demo has moved to a courtroom where ‘trust us’ is not a compliance setting.
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The Courtroom’s New CAPTCHA Is ‘Prove This Video Is Human’
OpenAI and Meta warned federal judges that deepfakes may become impossible to detect reliably. The companies that helped automate reality would now like the courts to check the box marked ‘I am not a fabrication.’
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