The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism
Assuming democracy remains intact in the years to come, Levitsky thinks the GOP will have to eventually moderate its stance...
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Crypto Was Afraid to Show Its Face at SXSW 2023
For every one of these companies, however, I saw just as many (if not more) that employed crypto while trying...
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India Shut Down Mobile Internet in Punjab Amid Manhunt for Amritpal Singh
A US House of Representatives hearing this week about the social media app TikTok did little to clarify lawmaker’s specific...
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The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem
In one sense, today’s US congressional hearing on TikTok was a big success: It revealed, over five hours, how desperately...
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TikTok Paid for Influencers to Attend the Pro-TikTok Rally in DC
Ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s much-anticipated testimony in the United States House of Representatives today, the embattled tech...
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Bug in Google Markup, Windows Photo-Cropping Tools Exposes Removed Image Data
At the beginning of March, Google released an update for its flagship Pixel smartphones to patch a vulnerability in the...
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The TikTok CEO’s Face-Off With Congress Is Doomed
March has been brutal for TikTok. Last week, the UK joined the US, Canada, and Belgium in banning TikTok on...
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How You Can Tell the AI Images of Trump’s Arrest Are Deepfakes
The viral AI-generated images of Donald Trump’s arrest you may be seeing on social media are definitely fake. But some...
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The Scorched-Earth Tactics of Iran’s Cyber Army
In the early hours of January 5, a popular anonymous Iranian dissident account called Jupiter announced on Twitter that his friends...
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Online Sleuths Untangle the Mystery of the Nord Stream Sabotage
Alexander and others have been examining the claims made so far. The New York Times and Die Zeit both published stories on...
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I Got Investigated by the Secret Service. Here’s How to Not Be Me
Unfortunately, my thought process wasn’t that complex when I suddenly had to talk to a federal agent on my phone...
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Security News This Week: Ring Is in a Standoff With Hackers
What’s more controversial than a popular surveillance camera maker that has an uncomfortably cozy relationship with American police? When ransomware hackers claim to...
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