Will Meta’s $18 Billion Settlement Reshape Social Media?
Meta is paying $18 billion to settle a lawsuit accusing it of deliberately creating addictive features that harmed young people. ...
Science & Technology
Flock’s Connection to Video-altering Technology
A very real possibility exists that Flock technology could be used to delete real...
The Psychology of Tyranny: Why Psychopathic Authoritarians Keep Rising to Power
Why do psychopathic authoritarians keep rising to power—across centuries, civilizations, and cultures? And perhaps...
Data Centers Become a Midterm Liability as Trump Keeps Pushing Them
President Donald Trump thinks data centers have a “public relations” problem, meaning the public...
Police AI Drones Take the Surveillance State Airborne
Police departments across the country are deploying autonomous drones that can launch from rooftops...
Report: Government Monitors Anti-Flock Social Media Critics
Once citizens began organizing to expose a surveillance network, the surveillance state turned its...
New Mexico Fines Meta $942 Million as “Public Nuisance”
The state has fined Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, $942 million for its...
Tax-funded “Scientists”: Cut Human Population in Half for “Sustainability”
Neo-Malthusian population-control zealots claim that the human population must be slashed by 50 percent...
Palantir’s Suppression of European Nationalism
Palantir CEO Alex Karp boasted of his company’s role in undermining the plight of...
Birth-control Pill May Diminish Fear Signals in Women
Observations of altered risk assessment raise questions about the unintended social consequences of mass...
AI Is Now Creating New Viruses. What Can Go Wrong?
Humans are creating viruses from scratch using the same artificial intelligence technology that has...
N.Y. School Nixes Robot as Parents, Teachers Push Back
A school district in rural western New York has hit pause on plans to...
Cities Turn Against Flock as Surveillance Concerns Mount
Flock license-plate readers' surveillance capability is expanding much faster than the legal and political...
They’re Building War Robots
An American artificial-intelligence company is building war robots. Among those opposed to autonomous war...
Power Companies Leverage Eminent Domain to Clear Land for AI Data-center Transmission Lines
Private landowners face forced property sales or seizures to accommodate infrastructure primarily serving energy-hungry...
Americans Are Destroying Flock Cameras in Protest
Americans are destroying Flock cameras in illegal acts of protests. Meanwhile, the surveillance system...
Electric Cars Meet Economic Reality
The electric-car industry, once destined to completely replace gas-driven vehicles, has run aground on...
Congress Wants a Kill Switch for Rogue AI
Congress is proposing legislation that gives the federal government the power to shut down...
Rogue AI Is the New Normal
ChatGPT maker OpenAI told the world that its AI system hacked into that of...
The EU’s Growing Surveillance State
The European Union is developing a growing, intrusive surveillance state, which two recent developments...