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Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends (Sun, 30 Nov 2025)
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
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The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley (Thu, 27 Nov 2025)
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
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Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025 (Fri, 28 Nov 2025)
“You can’t tell the story of 2025 without these icons.”
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Take Command of Your Powerful New Smartphone Camera (Wed, 26 Nov 2025)
This year’s high-end models from Apple and Google raise the bar for mobile photography, but users should take the time to learn the settings and features.
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David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-it of Apple Computers, Dies at 72 (Wed, 26 Nov 2025)
He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.
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Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry (Wed, 26 Nov 2025)
As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry’s influence.
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The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars (Tue, 25 Nov 2025)
Attacks against the site are piling up. Its co-founder says, Trust the process.
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What Is Agentic A.I., and Would You Trust It to Book a Flight? (Tue, 25 Nov 2025)
Companies are racing to develop artificial intelligence tools that can make reservations for flights, hotels and more on your behalf. Here’s what to know.
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A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season (Tue, 25 Nov 2025)
New tools and features from retailers and tech companies use artificial intelligence to help people find gifts and make decisions about their shopping lists.
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I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. (Tue, 25 Nov 2025)
My students’ easy access to chatbots forced me to make humanities instruction even more human.
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RealPage Agrees to Settle Federal Rent-Collusion Case (Mon, 24 Nov 2025)
The Justice Department had accused the real estate software company of enabling landlords to charge tenants more than free-market rates.
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An Auto Holy Grail: Motors That Don’t Rely on Chinese Rare Earths (Sun, 30 Nov 2025)
Weary of being captive to geopolitics, car companies are looking for ways to replace powerful rare-earth magnets in electric motors.
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X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts (Mon, 24 Nov 2025)
Online sleuths quickly found that some accounts posting about U.S. politics, including those in support of the MAGA movement, appeared not to be based in the United States.
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How OpenAI’s Changes Sent Some Users Spiraling (Sun, 23 Nov 2025)
OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings, which left some users spiraling, according to our reporting. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports.
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What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality (Mon, 24 Nov 2025)
In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?
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A.I. Toy Bear Speaks of Sex, Knives and Pills, Consumer Group Warns (Sat, 22 Nov 2025)
The chatter left startled adults unsure whether they heard correctly. Testers warned that interactive toys like this one could allow children to stray into inappropriate exchanges.
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Cryptology Group Held an Election, but Can’t Decrypt the Results (Fri, 21 Nov 2025)
A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system.
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The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands (Fri, 21 Nov 2025)
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.
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We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense. (Fri, 21 Nov 2025)
This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?
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The A.I. Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries? (Thu, 20 Nov 2025)
It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous.
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