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• OpenAI to offer safety features for teens using ChatGPT
  2026-08-21
• Why the Trump administration plans to boost funding for subsea cables
  2026-08-20
• Cyberattacks on U.S. water systems raise concerns about security
  2026-08-19
• As space launches increase, there aren't enough spaceports
  2026-08-18
• Can an AI music company make nice with human artists?
  2026-08-17
• States rush to police AI deepfakes ahead of midterm elections
  2026-08-14
• Can Silicon Valley give AI good taste?
  2026-08-13
• TikTok excluded millions from crucial safety guardrails
  2026-08-12
• AI subscriptions are rapidly taking over baby nurseries
  2026-08-11
• Substack CEO on the platform’s new AI detector
  2026-08-10
• Gig workers train humanoids on household chores
  2026-08-07
• AI-driven law could be an answer to accessible legal help
  2026-08-05
• AI chatbots have linguistic slips when they go off-script
  2026-08-05
• China’s soft power play in the global AI arms race
  2026-08-04
• Opening the curtain of AI business integration
  2026-08-03
• Meta and Microsoft report different AI earnings
  2026-07-31
• Centering humans in AI education might be key to innovation and research
  2026-07-30
• An "antacid" to fight climate change
  2026-07-28
• How AI nudify apps are proliferating on social media
  2026-07-27
• OpenAI model unintentionally hacks another company's system
  2026-07-24
• A modern-day odyssey through AI chatbot hellscape
  2026-07-23
• Uncanny AI: Why AI bots remember random, sometimes useless information
  2026-07-22
• AI debt is flooding the bond market
  2026-07-21
• AI firms are going back on their safety promises
  2026-07-20
• The Apple vs. OpenAI legal showdown
  2026-07-17
• Why state AGs are taking Meta to court
  2026-07-16
• Netflix struggles to retain viewers after a series' first season
  2026-07-15
• Froggle, Goofstump and the fake AI companies winning hearts online
  2026-07-14
• The high cost of vacuuming carbon from the sky
  2026-07-13
• OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 release raises questions about White House control over new models
  2026-07-10
• Bytes: Week in Review — Apple’s new CEO, Meta's latest AI play, and Roblox's safety updates
  2026-04-24
• Anti-AI data center sentiment is becoming a political issue
  2026-04-23
• When do tech companies need to be consistently profitable?
  2026-04-22
• News sites are blocking access to Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
  2026-04-21
• California buildings must limit "embodied carbon." Here's what that means
  2026-04-20
• Bytes: Week in Review — AI companies divided over proposed state law, Amazon buys Globalstar, and Spotify to sell physical books
  2026-04-17
• One way to avoid AI altogether? Retire early
  2026-04-16
• How botnets infiltrate the internet of things
  2026-04-15
• States are getting crypto‑curious
  2026-04-14
• Is “made by humans” the new premium label?
  2026-04-13
• Bytes: Week in Review — Anthropic's new AI model, a referendum on data centers, and NASA livestreams journey to space
  2026-04-10
• Trust in government data practices is rapidly deteriorating
  2026-04-09
• Are humans losing the ability to think for themselves?
  2026-04-08
• By 2030, EVs could cost the same as their gas guzzling siblings
  2026-04-07
• Would banning teens from social media violate their First Amendment rights?
  2026-04-06
• Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX's IPO, Iran threatens U.S. tech firms and California's new AI executive order
  2026-04-03
• 34 days without internet in Iran
  2026-04-02
• Meta and Youtube held liable for their addictive products
  2026-04-01
• Too much AI in the office is causing "brain fry"
  2026-03-31
• MLB brings automated ball-strike tech to the Big Leagues
  2026-03-30
• Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation
  2026-03-27
• The tech transforming Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge
  2026-03-26
• Why digital archiving is more than "store and ignore"
  2026-03-25
• U.S. regulators eye rules for prediction markets
  2026-03-24
• What do students lose when they rely on AI for homework?
  2026-03-23
• Bytes: Week in Review — Gecko's $71M contract with U.S. Navy, BuzzFeed doubts its business viability, and Amazon offers faster delivery
  2026-03-20
• How low-cost drones are used in modern military strikes
  2026-03-19
• The ethics of using AI to immortalize the dead
  2026-03-18
• AI-powered workplace tools keep tabs on employees
  2026-03-17
• How confident are crypto consumers?
  2026-03-16
• Bytes: Week in Review - Amazon and AI, YouTube tops the media market and Meta buys an AI-only social network
  2026-03-13
• Why Bitcoin falls short as a safe haven in geopolitical turmoil
  2026-03-12
• An Ohio newspaper gives AI a byline
  2026-03-11
• What do Girl Scouts get out of selling cookies online?
  2026-03-10
• California’s one-stop shop for data brokers to delete consumers' data
  2026-03-09
• Bytes: Week in Review — Prediction markets reel amid Iran conflict, defense contractors to drop Anthropic, and Meta's AI deal with News Corp
  2026-03-06
• Iran’s cyberwar on American banks
  2026-03-05
• Brands are racing to show up in AI search
  2026-03-04
• Digital archiving and the global memory shortage
  2026-03-03
• How government uses "surveillance as a service" to collect data
  2026-03-02
• Bytes: Week in Review - Anthropic and the Pentagon face off, OpenAI teams up with consulting firms and Mac Mini moves to the U.S.
  2026-02-27
• Physical media's comeback
  2026-02-26
• AI meets the search for a BA
  2026-02-25
• Here's how to prep for a job interview with AI
  2026-02-24
• AI makes it easier to code websites — including ones that scam consumers
  2026-02-23
• Bytes: Week in Review — Google to make links more prominent, Palantir moves to Florida and Ring reportedly had plans to use "Search Party" for more than finding lost dogs
  2026-02-20
• Meta's big bet on "superintelligence"
  2026-02-19
• Can software companies survive the AI boom?
  2026-02-18
• Fewer students are enrolling in computer science classes and majors
  2026-02-17
• High-tech data centers get a powerful assist from a century-old company
  2026-02-16
• Bytes: Week in Review — Alphabet takes on debt to pay for AI projects, the social network where humans aren't allowed, and Spotify reports record user growth
  2026-02-13
• Crypto’s big growth on the books and in the shadows
  2026-02-12
• Is the moon (and its resources) up for grabs?
  2026-02-11
• TPU? GPU? What's the difference between these two chips used for AI?
  2026-02-10
• New study reveals a "smartphone penalty" that distorts survey results
  2026-02-09
• Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX and xAI merge, Nvidia and OpenAI's funding relationship and U.S. TikTok's rough start
  2026-02-06
• Is social media addictive? And are social media companies liable?
  2026-02-05
• What AI fitness apps can and can't do — for now
  2026-02-04
• Making AI work — for work
  2026-02-03
• Making the most of AI, without the hype
  2026-02-02
• Bytes: Week in Review – Are we in an AI bubble?
  2026-01-30
• A recycling startup joins the AI boom
  2026-01-29
• Infrastructure lessons from the dot-com bubble
  2026-01-28
• A historic home tour of the virtual world
  2026-01-27
• Raising the “speed limit” on AI’s “information highway”
  2026-01-26
• Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX eyes an IPO, community members want legal commitments from Micron, and YouTube to ditch AI slop
  2026-01-23
• Unraveling the complex knot of an AI-generated hoax
  2026-01-22
• Welcome to the 'infocalypse'
  2026-01-21
• How "surveillance pricing" charges one online customer more than another for the same item
  2026-01-20
• The 'biohacking' trend that has tech workers experimenting on themselves
  2026-01-19
• Bytes: Week in Review – New chip exports for China, Microsoft to pay electricity for AI data centers, and Gemini will power Apple’s AI
  2026-01-16
• Teaching students to 'be better than a robot'
  2026-01-15
• This Swiss city wants to become the bitcoin capital of Europe
  2026-01-14
• AI is eating up the world's computing memory
  2026-01-13
• Building a home with future fires in mind
  2026-01-12
• Bytes: Week in Review – New year, new state AI laws, new showdown with Trump admin.
  2026-01-09
• Surveillance cameras livestreamed for the internet to see
  2026-01-08
• Farming in the digital age
  2026-01-07
• How convergence will define the tech sector in 2026
  2026-01-06
• How U.S. political campaigns have used generative AI
  2026-01-05
• Trying to stay off your phone? There’s an app for that
  2026-01-02
• A tech company that ‘happens to build homes’
  2026-01-01
• A whiplash year for electric vehicles
  2025-12-31
• AI-powered chatbots sent some users into a spiral
  2025-12-30
• Robotaxis moved into the fast lane in 2025
  2025-12-29
• How online age-gating laws went mainstream this year
  2025-12-26
• The year in AI wearables
  2025-12-25
• Mushrooms could help curb plastic waste
  2025-12-24
• Why Big Tech leaders aligned themselves with White House politics this year
  2025-12-23
• Dr. AI will see you now
  2025-12-22
• Bytes: Week in Review - Micron's big earnings, Oracle's data center woes and "slop" is Merriam-Webster's word of the year
  2025-12-19
• The challenges of integrating ads in AI search engines
  2025-12-18
• Tech sector job postings on Indeed (mostly) stabilized this year
  2025-12-17
• How states are competing in the data center gold rush
  2025-12-16
• A case for AI models that understand, not just predict, the way the world works
  2025-12-15
• Bytes: Week in Review - Apple's leadership departures raises concerns over its AI future
  2025-12-12
• The little-known regulatory bodies that can make or break AI data centers
  2025-12-11
• The latest TV innovations have their critics
  2025-12-10
• 3D printing was supposed to disrupt prosthetic costs. It hasn’t.
  2025-12-09
• Using AI chatbots for mental health support poses serious risks for teens, report finds
  2025-12-08