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It’s time to have The Talk with kids about AI (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/16/2023 - 06:21Haley walks back declaration that all social media users must be verified (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/15/2023 - 16:25Meta says vetting teens’ ages should fall on app stores, parents (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 11/15/2023 - 13:11Look out. Streaming is turning into cable TV. (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 11/14/2023 - 16:01NSA officials call out Chinese hackers’ stealthy and off-limits hacks (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 11/14/2023 - 13:15TikTok was slammed for its pro-Palestinian hashtags. But it’s not alone. (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 11/13/2023 - 12:00Slow internet speeds? It might be faster to use a pigeon.
Internet speeds have come a long way since the days of the dial-up modem, but sometimes you can’t beat the millennia-old method of carrier pigeon. At certain data volumes and distances, the pigeon is a quicker option for large swaths of rural America, where internet speeds can lag far behind the national average. Whether a pigeon can best the internet depends on three things: internet speed (check your own here), distance and data. It doesn’t make a difference online whether you’re sending a file across town to your neighbor