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Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in Latest Settlement

In recent months, Google has raced to settle a backlog of lawsuits ahead of major antitrust showdowns with the Justice Department later this...

How One Tech Skeptic Decided A.I. Might Benefit the Middle Class

David Autor seems an unlikely A.I. optimist. The labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is best known for his in-depth studies...

China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms

Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions and attacking...

Daniel C. Lynch, Founder of Major Computer Exhibition, Dies at 82

Daniel C. Lynch, a computer network engineer whose exhibitions on networking equipment helped accelerate the commercialization of the internet in the 1980s and...

Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify?

These days, the song brings in about $1,200 per month, enough to pay his rent, Casey told me, with what sounded like a...

AT&T Resets Millions of Passcodes After Customer Records Are Leaked

The telecommunications giant AT&T announced on Saturday that it had reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers after it determined that compromised customer...

OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices

First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, it built...

A.I.’s Messy Moment + Listeners Respond to Jonathan Haidt + Shrimp Jesus

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeThis week, we look at a mess of corporate drama in artificial...

San Francisco’s ‘Twitter Menace’ or True Believer? He Might Be Both.

But Mr. Tan’s passion, as it is for a growing number of tech industry leaders, is San Francisco politics. He is one of...

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former cryptocurrency mogul who was convicted of fraud, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday, capping an extraordinary...

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