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The Daily Dot

Hope Talbot is a freelance journalist currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The Daily Express, Euronews, and Bristol24/7, to name a few.

Hope Talbot

Bitcoin Community Accuses Trump of Rigging The Crypto Currency Market

Trump’s announcement of Crypto Strategic Reserve dubbed ‘world-historic’ pump-and-dump

Nate Wolf is a reporter based in New York City. His work has appeared in the Chief, InsuranceNewsNet, and Deadspin.

Nate Wolf

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Disgraced crypto magnate Sam Bankman-Fried thinks his life in jail is a lot like being fired by DOGE

Photo Illustration of a Meme coin; Background: Tiled photos of @MistaFuccYou.

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Crypto trader’s live stream suicide immortalized in meme coin—dividing community

Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

Katherine Huggins

A tweet from X user @LinusEkenstam that reads: "Grok needs a lot of red teaming, or it needs to be temporary turned off. It’s an international security concern." over a photo illustration of a pixelated hacker.

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‘Turn it off’: Grok under fire after providing assassination advice, chemical weapons recipes

Meta’s AI Instagram bots spark swift backlash: ‘Manufacturing the human experience’

Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

Mikael Thalen

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The Hawk Tuah girl’s crypto coin instantly went down (in price!)

Caiwei Chen is a reporter who covers tech, the internet, and society. Her work has been seen in publications including Wired, Rolling Stone, Protocol, Rest of World, and more. She is more online than she would like to admit.

Caiwei Chen

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Are the ‘lo-fi beats’ you’re chilling to on YouTube actually made with AI?

Photo collage of Donald Trump and a brain with circuits snaking out of his head.

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AI scientists found models are independently developing ‘Trump neurons’

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OpenAI says ChatGPT-using ‘Russian troll’ was elaborate, U.S-based hoax

Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

Marlon Ettinger

AI images from Milton flood the internet after the storm hits

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‘Heartbreaking images out of Florida’ meme uses AI alligators, Goofy to riff on conservatives duped by fake Helene photo

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An offshore crypto casino is taking bets on whether viral Tampa resident ‘Lieutenant Dan’ will survive Hurricane Milton

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Meme coiners are trying to get rich quick off Moo Deng

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Logan Paul says CryptoZoo bagholders ‘gambled and lost’ on failed NFT project

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AI firm fires 1,000 contractors—sparking fears of looming bubble burst

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Logan Paul’s Cryptozoo team focused solely on self-enrichment, new court docs allege

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