AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

With the number of border searches of electronic devices increasing every year, how can travelers keep their digital data safe? Our lives are extensively documented on the phones, laptops, and other

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data ...

Many white-collar professionals worry about the tech inhibiting creativity and making errors

AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries

Who is ed-tech for? The marketing copy -- whether on websites or in PowerPoint or in TED Talks and the like -- will all insist that ed-tech is, at the end of the day, for "the students." Even the products that are pitched to make teachers' and principals' and professors'

Age-verification systems are increasingly sophisticated. They're lucrative for the businesses creating them, too.

After the earthquakes, developers and citizens used AI to build websites and apps to help locate missing persons and coordinate relief efforts amid a slow government response.

Protein structure prediction is a hard problem, but even harder ones remain

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project

Is it ethical to use hyper-scaled GenAI?

Being anti-AI feels like being anti-war

Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities

The government’s favourite provider of child protection software, SafeToNet – a perpetually loss-making firm run by recently born-again Christians – has finally filed its long-delayed accounts. The…

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the 'burning marl.' Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS – OTHER PEOPLE! –Jean Paul Sartre, No Exit Sartre was (arguably) an optimist. It's not that other people are unpleasant: quite the contrary! There's nothing that makes the day (or, pointedly, the night) …Read More

Trying to understand how LLMs represent meaning by way of a discussion of Cleanth Brooks's account of poetic paradox.

Big Tech has looted humanity’s creative output to create artificial intelligence. We don’t just deserve a share of AI’s profits — we deserve control over it.

In 2022, Google sued to keep its water use in The Dalles, Oregon secret. When the numbers finally came out, the company's data centers were drinking 29 percent of the town's water.

Tech Won't Save Us · Episode

Video lecture for Rurality, Livelihoods, and Gender at the Swedish ...

Critically analysing the Turing test.