Flock Camera Vulnerability: It’s Worse Than You Think
More on why Flock surveillance cameras are insecure and unreliable. Pass the information on to local officials.
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AI Hyperscalers Crash the Grid as Big Tech Becomes a Power Trader
Enron’s success in gaming power prices suggests that there’s reason to worry about AI hyperscalers aselectricity traders
Read more...Colorado Is Pumping the Brakes on First-Of-Its-Kind AI Regulation to Find a Practical Path Forward
AI: too big to be regulated?
Read more...Human Gene Editing and the CRISPR Revolution
An overview of recent progress with the gene-editing CRISPR technology, its promise and risks.
Read more...“Mayday: The White House Is Attempting to Circumvent Congress and Crush the Rights of Individual States to Regulate AI”
AI overlords seek to be better able to loot than banks: too big to fail yet unregulated. Call your Congresscritters to stop that.
Read more...Public Money, Private Innovation: How Government Funding Built – and Sustains – America’s Technological Leadership
More evidence that publicly funded research is disproportionately productive and hence critical to innovation.
Read more...Godzilla v. Mothra: How Google Is Winning Struggle Among AI Giants to Control News Flow
How a few platforms control how news travels, shaping what we see, starving journalism, and locking new AI rivals out of data voters need.
Read more...Yet More AI Bubble Worries, Now on Debt Side, with Wall Street Journal Featuring AI Datacenter Borrowing “Frenzy”
Peeling back another layer of the AI onion, today on datacenter financing.
Read more...More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
Unemployment among young graduates has hit a sustained high level in many countries, which will produce further social and economic harm.
Read more...Has Ed Zitron Found the Fatal Flaw with OpenAI and Its Flagship ChatGPT?
The Financial Times has re-reported cautious but devastating-looking findings by Ed Zitron on OpenAI’s inference costs and truthfulness.
Read more...Tom Ferguson and Nick French: Red Tech’s Political Power, Its War on Labor and the Environment
An in-depth talk between political scientist Tom Ferguson and Jacobin’s Nick French about recent big shifts, above all the rise of red tech.
Read more...Who Will End Up Paying for the AI Spending Spree?
AI is now so clearly a money burn pit that efforts are already underway to fob the losses off on taxpayers. Is there any way to head it off?
Read more...What Can Europe Learn From China’s Critical-Tech Innovation Push?
China’s rise in frontier technologies narrows its gap with the US as Europe struggles with slow replication and fragmented research.
Read more...Call Your Congresscritters: OpenAI Laying the Groundwork for Massive Federal Bailout
AI is not just coming for your job. Industry leaders plan to pick your pocket on a massive scale via a bailout.
Read more...Technology Empires and the Race to Cement Dominance
A look at how the US and China are seeking to achieve technology hegemonies, and the efforts of smaller countries to carve out niches.
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