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The Download: a blockchain enigma, and the algorithms governing our lives

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MIT Technology Review - Ai Research Title: The Download: a blockchain enigma, and the algorithms governing our lives Date: 2026-02-18 13:10 Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1133291/the-download-a-blockchain-enigma-and-the-algorithms-governing-our-lives/ <p><em>This is today’s edition of <a href="http…
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    80% confidence

  • THORChain is helping realize bitcoin's original purpose of enabling anyone to transact freely outside the reach of purportedly corrupt governments

    80% confidence

  • The debate over decarbonizing railroads is partly technological and partly political

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  • Intermittent fasting may not help with weight loss after all

    80% confidence

  • Land previously earmarked for housing is being sold off to data center builders, the highest bidder

    80% confidence

  • Voted for the Trump administration and did not really think about AI until it started to affect her personally

    80% confidence

  • Bots and AI have rendered Grindr virtually unusable for some people

    80% confidence

  • Predictions are ultimately about power and control

    80% confidence

  • AI-powered private schools are failing students by using models to generate faulty lesson plans

    80% confidence

  • Nobody signed up for an omnipresent, algorithmic oracle mediating every aspect of their life

    80% confidence

  • THORChain's problems suggest that an alternative financial system might not be much better than the current one

    80% confidence

  • Advertising can erode trust in AI

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  • An estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in remote places

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