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These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr

You could argue, and people have, that the top gay dating apps are now optimized for monetization and juicing engagement loops. Increasingly overrun with bots, they are at times even devoid of actual connection. Grindr, with its 15 million monthly active users, is drowning in ads while pushing expensive upsells on users. (In February, as

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The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race

A decade ago, programs to reward researchers for submitting software vulnerability findings were just starting to go mainstream. Vulnerability disclosure and “bug bounty” programs represented a paradigm shift years in the making—moving institutions from hostility and defensiveness about security research findings to acknowledgement that receiving input and releasing fixes was necessary. When Apple finally announced

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GOP senators spurn payouts from ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

Settlements for those the Justice Department deems were victims of “lawfare and weaponization” under past administrations is the latest attempt to provide financial compensation to Republican senators whose phone records were tapped in the “Arctic Frost” investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. However, the Republican-controlled Congress has already rejected similar past proposals. The

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Elizabeth Warren wants Democrats to hit Trump on childcare

The Massachusetts senator is banking that voters frustrated by President Donald Trump‘s administration will help hand back control of the House and Senate to Democrats, due to exorbitant childcare prices in addition to high gas prices and rising inflation. “It would be political malpractice for Democrats not to be talking about childcare every chance we

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GOP senators spurn payouts from anti-weaponization fund

Settlements for those the Justice Department deems were victims of “lawfare and weaponization” under past administrations is the latest attempt to provide financial compensation to Republican senators whose phone records were tapped in the “Arctic Frost” investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. However, the Republican-controlled Congress has already rejected similar past proposals. The

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The operation to restore fallen soldiers’ lost Stars of David

When Rabbi Jacob Schacter visited the Normandy American Cemetery in 2014, one detail stayed with him long after his return home. The observation seemed insignificant at first. But for Schacter and the historians and genealogists who would later found Operation Benjamin, it raised a troubling question: Why did there appear to be so few Jewish

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A Probe Took Incredible Pictures of Mars on Its Way to a Far-Off Asteroid

The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it studies, recently performed a flyby of Mars to take advantage of its gravitational pull and continue its trajectory toward the asteroid belt. During the maneuver, the spacecraft obtained new images of the red planet. Psyche passed within 4,609 kilometers, or

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