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• Aug 12, 2025

  Travelers aren't big fans of TSA's facial recognition program, report finds

  

  Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, which recently released a report on the TSA's biometric scanning technology, says that 74% of surveyed individuals were unaware they could opt out of the facial screening.

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• Aug 8, 2025

  Bytes: Week in Review – Apple adds billions more to U.S. investments, OpenAI embraces openness, and Google restructures DEI funding

  

  Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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• Aug 7, 2025

  The uncertain future of consumer data control

  

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it intends to revise an Open Banking Rule finalized during the Biden administration, which would have given consumers more control over their financial data. Rohit Chopra, former CFPB director, explains how that rule could have affected consumers’ financial decisions.

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• Aug 5, 2025

  How much say do workers have over the tech employers make them use?

  

  A new national study from groups including Gallup and the non-profit Jobs for the Future found that relatively few employees have any influence over how new technology is adopted in the workplace. Molly Blankenship, director of strategy and impact at Jobs for the Future, explains what that means for employers and employees as technology like generative AI becomes more common in the office.

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• Aug 1, 2025

  Bytes: Week in Review — Tea app data breach, chip exports to China and YouTube rolls out age estimation tech

  

  The Tea app is a place for women to share red or green flags about men they've dated, or connect with one another. But it recently suffered a major data breach. Plus, why some members of Congress are protesting a deal with China to allow Nvidia to sell its H20 chips to the country. And YouTube is rolling out new age estimation technology to protect younger users.

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• Jul 31, 2025

  AI's role in human productivity and prosperity

  

  Simon Johnson, a Nobel-winning economist at MIT, says AI innovations can produce productivity gains, but not everyone will benefit from those gains.

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• Jul 30, 2025

  Small tweaks to AI prompts can have significant impacts on output

  

  Sayash Kapoor, co-author of the book "AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference," says developers should test any AI bot prompt change before releasing the update to the public.

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• Jul 25, 2025

  Bytes: Week in Review — Trump's new AI executive orders, Google seeks licensing deals with news publishers, and NASA employees dissent against budget cuts

  

  Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, joins Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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• Jul 23, 2025

  IRS data deal with ICE raises privacy alarms

  

  ProPublica investigative reporter William Turton explains how a proposed data sharing program between the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security could give ICE enforcement officials expanded access to taxpayer data.

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• Jul 22, 2025

  The AI talent wars have begun

  

  Tech firms big and small have reportedly been hiring AI engineers away from other companies with salary offers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, explains how this is changing the economics of Silicon Valley and startup culture.

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