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NYTimes Files Copyright Takedown Against Hundreds of Wordle Clones
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I Tried a Bot That Swipes Tinder For Me
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The FBI Charged a Man With Cyberstalking Nude Erotic Wrestlers
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Deadspin Is Becoming a Gambling Referral Site
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Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only for US and UK Users
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Scientists Use Ultrasound to Make Cold Brew Coffee in 3 Minutes Instead of 24 Hours
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All Eyes on Rafah’s Virality Creates Market for AI Spam About Palestine
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A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S.
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A 27-Year Old Tamagotchi Mystery Has Been Solved
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DEF CON Badge Maker Pulled Off Stage Amid Claims of Non-Payment and Failed Work
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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
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Larry Ellison's AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here
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Elon Musk-Funded PAC Supercharges ‘Progress 2028’ Democrat Impersonation Ad Campaign
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Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information
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Inside the Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls
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Happy Affiliate Marketing Day to All Who Celebrate
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‘A Total Meltdown’: Black Friday Zipcar Outage Strands Customers in Random Places
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Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO
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Nokia’s Weird Y2K Designs Show the Future We Could Have Had
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Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
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Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
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'For Immediate Compliance': FEMA Workers Responding to Wildfires Ordered to Say 'Alien' Instead of 'Immigrant'
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Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery
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Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
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TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off
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Why All of the JFK Assassination Documents Haven’t Been Released Yet
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Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
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When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron
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Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments'
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OnlyFans Sued After Two Guys Realized They Might Not Actually Be Talking to Models
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T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
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'Sea of Idiocy:' Economists Say Trump Tariffs Will Raise Price of Switch 2 and Everything Else
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Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People
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This Website Is Running on a Wii
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