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Google announced its first data center in Austria, located in Kronstorf, which will create 100 direct jobs and support growing demand for digital services and AI. The facility will prioritize sustainability through initi…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security defended its plan to convert a Detroit-area warehouse into an immigration detention facility, arguing in a court filing that site selection falls under its broad discretionary aut…
Artificial intelligence is not a neutral technology but is deeply connected to fascism through its use by authoritarian actors and its inherent structural tendencies. It examines how figures like Trump and Palantir's CEO…
According to a new report from the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), Apple has failed to produce a single concrete solution in response to 56 formal interoperability requests made under the European Union's Digital…
Inaugural AI for the Economy Forum, co-hosted by Google and MIT FutureTech in Washington D.C., to discuss how society can shape AI's economic impact. Google is committing to this effort through a new research program to …
Restricting public access to AI technology, as practiced by companies like Anthropic, causes more societal harm than openness. It contends that public knowledge and exposure to systems like LLMs are essential for recogni…
The European Union's Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, which provides funding for Free Software projects to build a more human-centric and open Internet, faced a €26 million funding cut in 2024 that threatened i…
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is navigating a financial crisis after its long-term payment provider, Nexi, suddenly terminated their contract, affecting over 450 regular donors. Despite this challenge, the o…
The article argues that open-source software is being threatened by a "death by a thousand cuts" through new regulations. It cites the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act and California's age verification law as exampl…
AI is primarily a tool for businesses to disempower labor by providing a non-unionized alternative, making it harder for workers to demand raises or defend their value. It further contends that AI erodes social bonds and…
The article advises travelers to strengthen their digital security before flying, noting that U.S. airport security and border checks have intensified, with ICE agents now present at some airports and device searches on …
On Monday, federal immigration agents from ICE were deployed to several U.S. airports, including Atlanta, Houston, and New Orleans, following an announcement by Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan. However, travelers reported …
Lawmakers are pushing to close a legal loophole that allows federal agencies like the FBI to purchase Americans' location data from commercial data brokers without obtaining a court-approved warrant. FBI Director Kash Pa…
The article explains that a wave of age verification laws, intended to protect children online, now requires adults to upload government IDs or facial scans to access many websites, creating significant security and priv…
While ATMs initially did not reduce bank teller employment (contrary to predictions), the widespread adoption of smartphones—particularly the iPhone—eventually led to a sharp decline in teller jobs by enabling mobile ban…
The article criticizes the "Pro-Human AI Declaration," highlighting that its broad coalition includes controversial figures like Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck alongside academics and organizations. The author argues that t…
In August 2020, FBI agents visited a journalist's New York home to question him about a 2019 article he wrote regarding a hack at a Mexican embassy, which involved a hacker accessing a vulnerable server. The journalist d…
Tech giants like TikTok, Google, and Meta use invisible tracking tools called "pixels" embedded on websites to collect sensitive personal data—such as health information or browsing habits—from visitors, even if those vi…
AI systems enable a "diffusion of responsibility," where companies and developers avoid accountability for errors by blaming the AI itself or a single human "checker." It criticizes the AI assistant OpenClaw (also called…
Tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel do read the science fiction works they reference, but they misinterpret them by identifying with the authoritarian or dystopian factions rather than the prota…