When asked if the Ranch Fire, a 4,293-acre fire in San Bernardino County, was contained, the chatbot said that the “latest” ...

Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls.

In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation after it cleared the House ...

Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge ...

The Markup and CalMatters found multiple ways consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on state-run health exchange websites.

The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse How a family’s neighborhood, age, and mental health might get their case a deeper look By Colin Lecher ...

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Pacific Gas and Electric, which runs Diablo Canyon, announced a deal with artificial intelligence startup Atomic Canyon —a company also based in San Luis Obispo—around the same time, heralding it in a ...

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Split Screen cannot reverse-engineer Facebook’s recommendation algorithm, and none of our observations should be treated as causal claims that Facebook has targeted a specific piece of content at a ...

Hello World How AI Detection Software Turns Professors into Cops, Tech as Systems of World-Making, and More A conversation with agroecologist Maywa Montenegro By Tomas Apodaca ...