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I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life.

1+ hour, 26+ min ago  (543+ words) The world's largest encyclopedia was overrun by bias and censorship'and pushed me out when I tried to fix it. Twenty-five years ago, I co-founded Wikipedia, arguably the most important encyclopedia in human history. On Monday, I was indefinitely banned from…...

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Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there's more to writing software than writing software

19+ hour, 28+ min ago  (270+ words) Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs Infosys chairman Nandan M. Nilekani has predicted AI " even AI that does the kind of coding work his company does for many clients " will…...

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What Would C. S. Lewis Have Thought of AI?

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (203+ words) What would C. S. Lewis have thought of artificial intelligence? I doubt he would have begun with the machine. Indeed, Lewis always began with man. He would not have asked first whether AI can write a poem, draft a law, tutor a…...

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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and supermodel Miranda Kerr help erase $550 million in medical debt for Californians

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (217+ words) Snap Chief Executive Evan Spiegel and his wife, supermodel Miranda Kerr, have helped pay off $550 million in medical debt for more than 261, 000 Californians. The couple made a multimillion-dollar donation to Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that provides debt relief to…...

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Gov. Gavin Newsom declares war on America's billionaires while bizarrely opposing California wealth tax

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (387+ words) California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a tax on America's billionaires " while remaining in steadfast opposition to the very same levy on the wealthiest in his state. After California's own billionaires tax was approved for the November ballot, Newsom announced Friday…...

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It's time for a national billionaires" tax and a new social compact. .. We must democratize the American economy to save democracy. .. Gavin Newsom

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (717+ words) Last night, it became certain that a wealth tax would be placed on the November ballot in California. I'm voting no. And I'm going to spend the rest of this piece telling you why, and what we should be doing…...

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America's data-centre backlash puts the AI boom at risk: Opposition is spreading across the country

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (537+ words) Along with a clutch of gas turbines to provide power, they occupy a site the size of an airport terminal. If Meta, the site's owner, stays on track to bring its "Prometheus" data centre online in 2026, it will dedicate an…...

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The American Economy Is Growing, But Workers Are Getting A Shrinking Slice

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (246+ words) Wages and salaries for U. S. workers make up the smallest share of economic output in history, according to records going back to 1947. The U. S. as a whole gets more prosperous every year'but less and less of that prosperity is showing up in…...

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China claims to have developed AI "cyber nuclear weapon

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (282+ words) A blacklisted Chinese company claims to have developed a "cyber nuclear weapon" that could be used to hack Western companies and governments. Zhou Hongyi, the chief executive of cybersecurity company Qihoo 360, said it had built an AI system that matched…...

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Left-leaning Wikipedia blocked founder from editing site " after he campaigned to make it more balanced

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (150+ words) Left-leaning website Wikipedia has taken the drastic action of permanently blocking one of its founders from editing pages " after he had campaigned to make it more balanced and fair. However, Sanger " who coined the name "Wikipedia," drafted the site's foundational…...

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