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Background checks to curb dating app violence advance in California legislature

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge ...
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Trump orders crackdown on state AI regulation. Here's why California is hardest hit

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
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This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
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Turnitin charged colleges vastly different amounts to detect plagarism

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California colleges spend millions on faulty AI systems: 'The chatbot is outdated’

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How a Group of Health Executives Transformed the Liver Transplant System

Marilyn Walto’s family didn’t expect her to make it through the year. A chronic disease was attacking her bile ducts and destroying her liver. Without a transplant, she would die. In an administrative ...
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How We Built a Meta Pixel Inspector

The full extent of how Facebook tracks people on the web is not understood—but you can help uncover what data the tech giant is gathering about you Meta can connect website visitors to their Facebook ...
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Are Your Country’s Cellphone Plans a Rip-off?

We’ve all experienced slow and inconsistent mobile data connections—speed varies with topography and proximity to cellphone towers, making it hard to measure. We used data from a 2016 FCC study that ...
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Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up

This story was published in partnership with The 19th News, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. Last October, a 13-year-old boy in Wisconsin used a picture of ...
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California's fire protection agency made an AI chatbot. It can’t answer one crucial question

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Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing

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The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse

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