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Ripoffs, cybercrime, corporate misbehavior, 21st century headaches. Digital life is full of Gotchas and booby traps. I help you untangle them.
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Horseshoes, hand grenades, and AI (opens the original)
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Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades...and AI. Hear me out.Read a paper written by AI, and you are likely to think, “This sounds really stiff and something is just a bit off,” like a cut-and-paste job from a student who was watching Netflix at 2 a.m. Look at AI-generated images or videos and you’re likely to see very attractive people with six fingers. Listen to an AI-generated rock song and you’ll hear a ripping guitar solo that you’ll never want to hear again.That’s AI slop. “Nice
It's fall -- a great time to be afraid of stocks (opens the original)
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The first crisp Fall day means many things to many people -- light jackets, tall boots, football, the harvest Moon. But if you’ve been involved with Wall Street for any decent stretch of time, it means something else. Fear.And if you don’t feel it, you should. It’s smart to learn from your mistakes. It’s much smarter to learn from other people’s mistakes. There’s a non-zero chance we have another bad fall day ahead of us; prepare now.Black Monday in October 1987. The Asian Contagion of October 1
Billions in fines might not change Big Tech, but $5,000 per victim payouts just might (opens the original)
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Sugar High, part 4: The future of music is what we'll make (opens the original)
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A decade of heartbreaks: His identity has been used in hundreds of romance scams (opens the original)
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