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‘The right has won the family’: why are there so few lefty momfluencers?

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The most popular mom content tends to be rightwing tradwife propaganda or just apolitical – pushing progressive creators out of the algorithmFor someone who doesn’t have a marble island in their kitchen I spend a disproportionate amount of time staring at marble kitchen islands, slack-jawed, brain turned half off. That’s because I consume a lot […]

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Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers

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Digital pinboard business cutting 15% of workforce as it invests heavily in AI Pinterest has fired two engineers who created a software tool to identify which workers had lost their jobs in a recent round of cuts and then shared the information, according to reports.The digital pinboard business announced significant job cuts earlier this month,

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Disastrous start for US TikTok as users cry censorship

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New US-owned app struggled with a storm and was accused of blocking content critical of Trump – can it recover?Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you from Doha, where I’m moderating panels about AI and investing as part of the Web Summit Qatar.I want to bring your attention to the impact

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Palantir beats Wall Street expectations amid Trump immigration crackdown

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CEO Alex Karp hails ‘iconic’ financial results despite criticism over contracts with ICE and homeland securityPalantir celebrated its latest financial results on Monday, as the tech company blew past Wall Street expectations and continues to prop up the Trump administration’s push to deport immigrants.Palantir has secured millions of dollars in federal contracts amid Trump’s crackdown

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Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation

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Aerospace business and artificial intelligence firm to unite for IPO as world’s most valuable private companyBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence business xAI, in a $1.25tn (£910bn) merger that consolidates part of Musk’s empire as SpaceX prepares to go public later this year.The two companies announced the

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‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report

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Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruptionThe International AI Safety report is an annual survey of technological progress and the risks it is creating across multiple areas, from deepfakes to the jobs market.Commissioned at the 2023 global AI safety summit, it is chaired by the Canadian

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‘It’s really sad’: US TikTok users rethink app over concerns about privacy and censorship

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Some users are stepping away from the app after it made a deal to create a US entity and updated terms and conditionsMany TikTok users across the US say they’re rethinking their relationship with the platform since its ownership and terms and conditions have recently changed, with some citing censorship and lack of trust as

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How the left can win back the internet – and rise again | Robert Topinka

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In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tideRobert Topinka is a reader in digital media and rhetoric at Birkbeck, University of LondonPart one: How liberals lost the internetPart two: How the

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Why TikTok’s first week of American ownership was a disaster

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App endured a major outage and user backlash over perceived censorship. Now it’s facing an inquiry by the California governor and an ascendant competitorA little more than one week ago, TikTok stepped on to US shores as a naturalized citizen. Ever since, the video app has been fighting for its life.TikTok’s calamitous emigration began on

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US authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages

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A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has deniedUS authorities have reportedly investigated claims that Meta can read users’ encrypted chats on the WhatsApp messaging platform, which it owns.The reports follow a lawsuit filed last week, which claimed Meta “can access virtually all of

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