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AI-generated parody song about immigrants storms into German Top 50 (Guardian, The)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 08/19/2024 - 11:21‘The party is back’: rise in European music festivals banning smartphones (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Sat, 08/17/2024 - 14:21Elon Musk says X will pull operations from Brazil after ‘censorship orders’ (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Sat, 08/17/2024 - 14:21Wyoming reporter caught using AI to create fake quotes and stories (Guardian, The)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 08/14/2024 - 16:33Kamala’s tech ties: what is VP Harris’s relationship with Silicon Valley?
A recent San Francisco fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris (D-CA), which raised more than $12 million, was the latest in the Harris campaign’s outreach to tech Democrats and an extension of a relationship with Silicon Valley elites that goes back more than a decade. Harris has extensive ties to some of the tech industry’s most influential players and prolific donors, in part due to her time as California’s attorney general and later,
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Vice President Kamala Harris needs to take on Google and other monopolies (Guardian, The)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 12:27Elon’s politics: how Musk became a driver of elections misinformation (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 08/12/2024 - 05:21What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet
Almost all internet traffic—including Zoom calls, movie streams, emails and social media feeds—reach us via high speed fibre optics laid on the ocean floor.