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How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other

Vox

The internet is full of terrible corners, but none are as skin-crawling as what you see when you open a new account on TikTok. An unsullied For You page whose only knowledge is that you are human will serve you a disorienting combination of two things: hot girls’ butts, and advice on how to steal other people’s viral video ideas.

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How much longer can Google own the internet?

Vox

This lack of competition in digital advertising means that monopoly rents are being imposed upon every website that is ad-supported and every company — small, medium, or large — that relies on internet advertising to grow its business,” Sen. Google’s co-founders Larry Page, left and Sergey Brin in simpler times.

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2Africa subsea cable branches out

TM Forum

In the first quarter of 2021, more than 20 percent of the global net additions were recorded in Africa, according to. Yet sizeable obstacles remain to would-be internet users. Africa as a whole still lags behind other regions when it comes to internet availability, affordability, and – by extension -- take-up according to.

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Privacy activist wants to unveil lawmakers' browser histories

Network World

After Congress on Tuesday approved a resolution that would toss out significant online privacy protections, one Internet user decided to do something about it. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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LinkedIn Shuts Down Four XSS Flaws, Is wireless the Trojan horse in your network security? and more

CTOvision

IE zero-day vulnerability exploited more widely than previously thought - “A recently announced and yet-to-be-patched vulnerability that affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against organizations in Taiwan since the beginning of July, according to security researchers.”

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OpenAI can translate English into code with its new machine learning software Codex

The Verge

Codex is built on the top of GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generation model , which was trained on a sizable chunk of the internet, and as a result can generate and parse the written word in impressive ways. The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Myspace Tom got it right

The Verge

“‘MYSPACE TOM’ ABOUT TO GET A NEW FRIEND,” reads the caption, saliently predicting that with the entire internet industry mobilizing to hastily deplatform the president, Trump’s only access to the public might come from a long-zombified social media company. Go take a look at Anderson’s Instagram page.

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