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What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal

Nine years after hackers targeted Ashley Madison, the dating site for wannabe adulterers, many people still don't grasp what was truly chilling about the scandal, says Annalee Newitz

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EM8P22 AshleyMadison.com, the dating site for primarily married people, is seen on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Avid Life Media, the parent company of Ashley Madison, announced that it will be pursuing a initial public offering in London this year hoping to raise $200 million. (? Richard B. Levine)

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Does using the internet make us happier or sadder?

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Gaza's phone and internet services have completely collapsed

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Two million people in Gaza are without reliable communications

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Amazon is launching its first internet satellites to rival Starlink

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StarLink satellite group shortly after launch, August 29, 2022

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Starlink carbon footprint up to 30 times size of land-based internet

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UK's Online Safety Bill to become law, but can it be enforced?

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AIs trained on AI-generated images produce glitches and blurs

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RB64AM Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Austrian neurologist, known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

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The Age of Guilt review: Can Freud shed light on the internet?

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Why we need to slow down the AI chatbot revolution

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How AI chatbots in search engines will completely change the internet

Moves by Google, Microsoft and Baidu to bring AI chatbots into their search engines may bring big advantages, but they could also damage many industries and change the very way we interact with the web

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AI search heats up as Google and Baidu race to launch ChatGPT rivals

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The US government is suing Google – again

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The outline of people’s bodies can be detected from Wi-Fi signals

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Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?

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Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?

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