>"Decentralizing the internet alone won’t lift it above politics or save it from corporate co-optation"

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"The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70 GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists."

>"Brave, a Chromium-based, privacy-first browser that integrates the anonymous Tor web browser, is leaking private .onion addresses to DNS."

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>"At artificial-intelligence conferences, researchers are increasingly alarmed by what they see."

How one scientist started with a butt plug from Amazon and ended up inventing an “anal pneumatic base” to measure orgasms.

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