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The psychology of cancel culture: New study pinpoints key drivers
A recent study in Acta Psychologica reveals that political identity centrality increases the likelihood of engaging in cancel culture, mediated by social vigilantism and virtue signaling.
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At 35, the web is broken, but its inventor hasn't given up hope of fixing it yet
Back to the future: Sir Tim Berners-Lee thinks the rise of AI has made things worse than ever, but he continues to find solutions in the internet's earliest days.
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Freenginx: A Fork of Nginx
The Freenginx Web server aims to recapture the spirit of open source development "for the public good," free from corporate control.
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Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox?
Could it have more to do with browser's ever-increasing irrelevance?
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Drew Barrymore Was Catfished On Dating App, Man Claimed To Be NFL Player
Drew Barrymore might be an A-lister, but she isn't immune to the horrors of dating apps ... including getting tricked by people claiming/pretending to be someone else.
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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying
European Union Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders recently told German newspaper 'Welt am Sonntag' that the European Commission is aware of how annoying cookie consent banners have become...
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A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine
Researchers warn that most of the text we view online has been poorly translated into one or more languages—usually by a machine.
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The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance
With its market share hitting a new low, can Firefox rise from the ashes or is this the end?
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Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma
Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. Now, eligible users will be able
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YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan
YouTube’s Premium Lite subscription is going away.
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Yelp names and shames businesses paying for 5-star reviews
Plus: Amazon announced last week that two fake review brokers were arrested.
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Reddit Is No Longer the "Weird" Social Media. It’s Also Not Quite Normal.
There’s the Reddit of ‘Dumb Money’ that prompted a major fiasco in the finance industry, and then there’s the Reddit of celebrity AMAs and refining your pedestrian Google searches. On today’s Reddit, you can have both.
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Reddit users are reporting Christian websites for violating Virginia's new porn identification law, citing vulgar passages in the Bible
People are using Virginia's porn age verification law to flag Bible.com for adult content.
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Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law
The law would require a “Texas Health and Human Services Warning” on all porn sites.
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Reddit is testing “official” labels for profiles and making parts of its app compatible with screen readers
The “Official” label is a small test to start.
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No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators
Disenchanted mods Ars spoke with want change, not more communication.
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Bot Mess: AI-Generated Clickbait Will Hasten the Demise of Search and Web Publishing
Why should Google keep offering organic results if they’re written by a bot?
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Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits
Reddit isn't profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform's API
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Security researchers latest to blast UK's Online Safety Bill as encryption risk
Nearly 70 IT security and privacy experts have added to the clamour of alarm over the damage the UK's Online Safety Bill could wreak to strong encryption.
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How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.
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