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- by Kate KnibbsAs major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
- by Joel KhaliliThe developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions. It's an attempt optimize the process of choosing new colleagues, friends, and even romantic partners.
- by Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, Lily Hay Newman, Dell CameronPlus: Iran’s internet blackout hits the 1,000-hour mark, cryptocurrency scams result in a record amount of money stolen from Americans, and more.
- by Gia ChaudryFrom AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.
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- by Kate KnibbsAs major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
- by Joel KhaliliThe developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions. It's an attempt optimize the process of choosing new colleagues, friends, and even romantic partners.
- by Maxwell ZeffAn attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO’s residence before making threats outside of the startup’s headquarters.
- by Brian Barrett, Leah FeigerIn this episode, the hosts discuss the fight between OpenAI and Elon Musk, the misuse of voter data, and Artemis II’s moonshot.
Music
- by Philip SherburneThe Dutch electronic musician and the London-based drummer blur the line between drum programming and organic percussion in a drifting yet groovy set of compositions.
- by Joshua Minsoo KimChanneling ’90s slowcore and post-rock into gorgeously brooding odes to dejection, the Chicago quartet’s debut is downer music at its most alluring.
- by Sam GoldnerOn his latest album, the Russian producer crafts distinctive rhythms inspired by the chiming repetitions of Indonesian gamelan music.
- by Lydia WeiThe songwriter and producer’s second album pairs bedroom-pop vulnerability with electroclash chaos to capture the emotional overload of growing up.
- by Emma MaddenEach Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the spare, gentle, semi-forgotten singer-songwriter album that’s fueled 50 years of “sapphic pop.”
- by Alfred SotoThe avant-pop group’s long unavailable, newly reissued debut epitomizes its attempt to meld its art-school background, ’70s punk ethics, and obsession with chart pop into one grand statement.
- by Sam SodomskyFormer Black Midi bassist Cameron Picton’s dazzlingly complicated solo debut is a tangle of baroque melodies, chamber-punk arrangements, and garden-path lyrics.