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Trump administration officials ignored the recommendations of their own investigators as they pushed to find civil rights violations at three Ivy League universities, according to a whistle-blower complaint released Tuesday.
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niemanlab.org/2026/08/the-athletic-teams-up-with-sports-creators-to-reach-new-and-younger-audiences/
Nearly a year into its Creator Program, The Athletic has amassed 50 million video views and 100,000 new followers.
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npr.org/2026/08/18/nx-s1-5929575/ai-suicide-risks-mental-health
A 29-year-old woman confided her suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot — not to her therapist, not to her parents, not to her best friend. What can AI learn from her death?
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Americans are destroying license-plate cameras as surveillance backlash grows
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gizmodo.com/its-absolutely-terrifying-ai-is-reportedly-slopping-up-the-bills-in-congress-2000799734
By one count, the number of requests for legislation in 2025 was up 72% from the same period in 2023
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cnn.com/2026/08/18/china/china-comedian-investigated-guo-degang-intl-hnk
A stand-up comedian, considered one of China’s most influential cultural figures, has been placed under investigation and had performances cancelled after he joked about a communist party song.
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Hubble Network hopes the wireless tech can create a global tracking network
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nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/dieux-forever-eye-mask-review/
We thought these eye masks would plump the under eyes more than eye cream alone, but testing revealed the opposite is true. Save your money.
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A diskless, API-only AppView for Tangled
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thedrum.com/news/the-best-advertising-advice-amazon-gives-isn-t-in-a-slide-deck
According to the law of large numbers, Amazon should be finding it hard to keep growing. It already takes roughly 40% of every dollar spent online in the US.
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Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?
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Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.
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kbtx.com/2026/08/17/north-texas-county-shuts-down-flock-cameras-over-privacy-concerns/
A North Texas county has shut down its network of Flock automated license plate reader cameras, saying the technology amounted to warrantless surveillance of residents going about their daily lives
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futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economy-ai-generated-value
3D assets marketplace CGTrader is being flooded by AI slop, but nobody is buying it, suggesting AI isn't "repricing the market."
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seroundtable.com/google-support-http-query-method-41882.html
Gary Illyes from Google said Google Search will eventually support the new HTTP QUERY method. He said as the "ecosystem catches up" Google will then support the HTTP QUERY method.
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Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction for a trove of deindentified business data, software code, and operations records from collapsed low-cost carrier Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc., saying it plans to use the assets to improve its artificial intelligence.
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theverge.com/transportation/981194/faa-air-traffic-elon-musk-peter-thiel-palantir
Palantir’s reach in the FAA keeps growing.
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seroundtable.com/chatgpt-ads-switching-advertisers-41883.html
Sometimes when you look at the ads within OpenAI's ChatGPT, you might notice an ad from one advertiser first loads and then it quickly blinks and loads a different advertiser. I suspect this is a bit of a deficiency with the ad server, but I am not certain.
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After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
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washingtonpost.com/health/2026/08/17/kindergarten-vaccine-exemptions-jump-another-record-high/
Kindergarten vaccine exemptions jump to another record high
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Trump administration can’t scrap plan to move FBI headquarters to Md., judge rules
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emma.best/2026/08/14/leaking-and-investigating-the-epstein-files/
This unique panel brought together leading journalists who published and investigated leaked emails from the Epstein files, exposing his network of collaborators and enablers in one of the most explosive political scandals in decades.
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nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/data-centers-noise-lawsuits-social-media-rcna587447
Concerns about data centers initially centered on their energy and water consumption, but as more have come online, residents’ gripes are increasingly about noise.
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Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
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nytimes.com/2026/08/01/style/provincetown-bear-week-ozempic.html
Some partygoers were in sequins. Others in polo shirts.
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ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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Victim, survivor, avenger — is her “brokenness” her superpower?
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“So my story is I am totally broken,” Mace said in a revealing profile published Friday.
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404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
