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POLITICS

Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push

By Dell Cameron and Hugo Lowell

Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.

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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 13: PhD Professor Sherry Turkle is interviewed at Touchscreen Generation: How Technology Affects Our Kids' Social/Emotional Learning And What We Can Do About It at Gotham Hall on November 13, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Rob Ki

BACKCHANNEL

Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’

By Steven Levy

MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.

THE BIG STORY

Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong

By Richard Cooke

In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.

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CULTURE

Thank Gen Z for the ‘Girls’ Revival

By Sophia June

The HBO series served as a stand-in for everything wrong with white millennial women during its original run. Then Gen Z started watching.

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CULTURE

The ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Filmmakers Terrified Bystanders With Their Monster Sounds

By Max Evry

The team behind director Takashi Yamazaki’s new film created their kaiju roars by placing speakers on top of an outdoor dam. The people walking by weren’t prepared for what they heard.

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SCIENCE

Cat-Like Whiskers Help Tiny Drones Fly in the Dark

By Ritsuko Kawai

Researchers took lessons from nocturnal animals to help rescue drones overcome a key challenge: flying in the dark.

Criminal Presents Don’t Worry With Phoebe Judge

In 2014, Phoebe Judge started one of the very first true-crime podcasts out there—Criminal. At the same time, she was taking phone calls from her sister at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. In her all-new stage show, Phoebe turns the microphone on herself and her unpredictable family—in a way described as "funny, intimate, and tender." It's a show about not giving up on people.

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SECURITY

‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads

By Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.

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