If technological developments emerge from the necessity to 'fill needs' and as such are framed as being societally beneficial (Chandler 1995), then what might t

Molly Joyce is an American performer and composer whose work explores disability as creative material. Her latest album, State Change uses surgical records as musical lyrics and utilises various adapt...

Molly Joyce is an American performer and composer whose work explores disability as creative material. Her latest album, State Change uses surgical records as musical lyrics and utilises various adapt...

Kin>% (cell_less) is a UK-based PhD artist-researcher whose practice investigates narratives of technological inevitability and the ways algorithmic systems make decisions for and about us. Working ac...

Before Musk and Thiel, a shadow history throws the often idealistic hopes of progressive science-fiction cultures into stark and unstable relief

Farage himself has a notably terrible Commons attendance record. But the lack of Reform MPs at the statement is particularly egregious.

Review of Adam Becker, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity…

The metaphor of the ‘black box’ is commonly used to describe systems in which the inputs and outputs are known but the inner mechanisms are not. ‘Artificial intelligence’ technologies are an exampl…

Review of Adam Becker, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity…

Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...

Podcast Episode · Digital Fatalism · 05/20/2025 · 26m

Drugmaker’s takeover could raise privacy concerns among genetics start-up’s 15mn users

‘Dissolving black boxes’ (interactive installation/moving image) was an Everyday Algorithms micro-commission, supported by The NewBridge Project and curated by Shelly Knotts. The metaph…

Helyeh Doutaghi was placed on leave by Yale Law School after being falsely accused of “terrorism” over her support for Palestine. She says her case reflects the new era of Zionist McCarthyism and that...

An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

The CEO of 23andMe has recently said she’d consider selling the genetic genealogy testing company–and with it, the sensitive DNA data that it’s collected, and stored, from many of its 15 million custo...

Inactual è un collettivo artistico, editoriale e curatoriale, attivo ai confini tra arte contemporanea, tecnologia e pensiero critico. A cura di Christian Nirvana Damato, Emilia Angelucci e Giovanni R...

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

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Data centers are spiking electricity demand, and some worry states are striking deals that mean households will pay the cost.

A new type of dependency is emerging in which digital infrastructures replicate the old colonial logics.

Stuck in cramped cells for days and weeks at a time, incarcerated people are being whisked away to beautiful worlds through the magic of VR.

Last month’s AI Action Summit in Paris marked a turning point in how world leaders talk about AI.