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US legislators vote to ban TikTok unless it severs ties with China

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that will require TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or risk a nationwide ban

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YouTube has managed to stop its algorithm serving up extreme videos

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LGBTQ people seen as needing more protection online than Christians

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The Taylor Swift 'psy op' conspiracy theory offers a troubling lesson

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ChatGPT can tailor political ads to match users' personalities

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The Chinese spy balloon that floated over Canada and the US in 2023 shortly before it was shot down over South Carolina

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Armies of bots battled on Twitter over Chinese spy balloon incident

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US Congress grilled Big Tech leaders on child online safety

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We aren't addicted to our phones and we don't need a 'digital detox'

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We aren't addicted to our phones and we don't need a 'digital detox'

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Reddit mentions may help predict changes in cryptocurrency value

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Chinese social network fails to curb abuse by showing users' locations

Weibo, a social media platform, tried to reduce incivility by displaying estimated locations for users, but this gave trolls another way to target people

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Elon Musk spent 2023 shaping Twitter – sorry, X – in his own image

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Trust and safety – the most important tech job you’ve never heard of

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Pillars of Creation (NIRCam and MIRI Composite Image) By combining images of the iconic Pillars of Creation from two cameras aboard NASA???s James Webb Space Telescope, the universe has been framed in its infrared glory. Webb???s near-infrared image was fused with its mid-infrared image, setting this star-forming region ablaze with new details. Myriad stars are spread throughout the scene. The stars primarily show up in near-infrared light, marking a contribution of Webb???s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). Near-infrared light also reveals thousands of newly formed stars ??? look for bright orange spheres that lie just outside the dusty pillars. In mid-infrared light, the dust is on full display. The contributions from Webb???s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) are most apparent in the layers of diffuse, orange dust that drape the top of the image, relaxing into a V. The densest regions of dust are cast in deep indigo hues, obscuring our view of the activities inside the dense pillars. Dust also makes up the spire-like pillars that extend from the bottom left to the top right. This is one of the reasons why the region is overflowing with stars ??? dust is a major ingredient of star formation. When knots of gas and dust with sufficient mass form in the pillars, they begin to collapse under their own gravitational attraction, slowly heat up, and eventually form new stars. Newly formed stars are especially apparent at the edges of the top two pillars ??? they are practically bursting onto the scene. At the top edge of the second pillar, undulating detail in red hints at even more embedded stars. These are even younger, and are quite active as they form. The lava-like regions capture their periodic ejections. As stars form, they periodically send out supersonic jets that can interact within clouds of material, like these thick pillars of gas and dust. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old, and will continue to form for mi

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Why 'existential humility' may be the answer to today's culture wars

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