
The Download: tackling tech-facilitated abuse, and opening up AI hardware
Charlotte Jee
created: June 18, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | updated: June 20, 2025, 12:36 p.m.
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(MIT Technology Review)3 Conspiracy theories about the Minnesota shooting are all over social mediaWhenever there’s an information vacuum, people are all too keen to fill it with noise and nonsense.
(MIT Technology Review)6 Social media is now Americans’ primary news sourceIt’s overtaken TV for the first time.
(MIT Technology Review)10 People are building AI tools to decipher cats’ meows 😸Bet at least half of them are “feed me.” (Scientific American $)
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