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Defense tech has unleashed a new weapons boom in Southern California

California’s 36th Congressional District includes El Segundo, a high-tech defense hub outside Los Angeles. In the district’s ...
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Kaiser Permanente nurses say technology is making their jobs — and patient care — worse

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
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California tried to protect students’ data. Tech companies found loopholes

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Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot we caught telling businesses to break the law

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Dating App Rape Survivors File Lawsuit Accusing Hinge, Tinder of “Accommodating Rapists”

The Dating Apps Reporting Project produced this story in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network and The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, and copublished with The Guardian ...
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His students suddenly started getting A’s. Did a Google AI tool go too far?

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The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse

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Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing

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How AI Detection Software Turns Professors into Cops, Tech as Systems of World-Making, and More

Hello World is a weekly newsletter—delivered every Saturday morning—that goes deep into our original reporting and the questions we put to big thinkers in the field. Browse the archive here. Two weeks ...
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The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring the U.S.-Mexico Border

I’m Monique, an investigative reporter at The Markup and now on the i-team at CalMatters (if you’ve been offline this summer, we combined our newsrooms). I’ve been covering technology at the ...
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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

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NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law

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