At three in the morning a government website showed me a countdown clock with nine hours and twelve minutes remaining.

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The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.

A resounding bipartisan House vote was not enough to get Senate Democrats on board with the Ratepayer Protection Act.

The massive scale of security incidents points to control problems for AI companies.

The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.

Our contention is that, if we fail to think through and delimit the role of AI in our lives, we risk undermining the intelligibility of our own guiding cultural concepts, and thus initiating a period ...

And with the Trump administration encouraging unregulated growth in the industry, Democrats need to start acting like it.

Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times

Fall is peak season for spotting webs, with cool nights coating them in revealing dew. From spiraling orbs to sci-fi-like funnels, each design is engineered to catch dinner.

Whitehall wants to triple their number in the UK. Yet in Slough, I saw the impact they’re having on communities, says Guardian columnist John Harris

A group exhibition celebrating the website as an artistic medium. Armory Week, New York City, September 2026.

Opposition mounts as at least 20 projects proposed, including one in Fife billed as second largest in world

Listen now | Bernard Stiegler warned that technology steals our attention and erodes care. This episode explores his life, philosophy, and urgent legacy.

Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.

Legacy Investing envisions a mixed-use development on the prime downtown Minneapolis property.

The long read: Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in a utopia – but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen?

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

Numerous federal agencies possess statutory authority to obtain sensitive data without advance judicial approval or probable cause of illegal activity.

That the federal government secretly recorded conversations, infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records of labor unions and progressive groups in Minnesota as part of a surveillance effor...

The real question for builders right now isn’t which model you’re using. Rather, it's whether you could leave for a different one, writes Raffi Krikorian.

It's just one more parable in a long line of product releases by AI firms with potentially dangerous consequences, write shirin anlen and Sam Gregory.

A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran.

As local communities around the world unite around a shared enemy — AI data centers — a powerful new direction for climate action is emerging.

Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?

As local communities around the world unite around a shared enemy — AI data centers — a powerful new direction for climate action is emerging.

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

Vera works closely with government and civic leaders to urgently build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen…

Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how hot their prisons get in the summer. One prison reached 117 degrees.

The legislative proposal would allow the defense secretary to withhold "controlled unclassified information," potentially curbing public access to a wide range of defense records.

The Minneapolis City Council declined to sign a contract Thursday with Skydio, a California-based drone company, over concerns it sold its products to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The con...

When residents of Madison County, North Carolina, sought to speak about the county’s AI surveillance cameras at a recent Madison County Commissioners meeting, commissioner Michael Garrison’s response was simple: “You will not speak on Flock tonight.” A clip capturing Garrison’s move to prevent public comment soon went viral, resonating with others waging similar battles in their communities. This sort of democratic abuse is not unusual when it comes to the fight against Flock Safety, automated license plate readers more broadly, and other forms of surveillance.

Last year, the House passed the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633), a bill disguised as “crypto regulation” that actually serves the billionaires and bad actors at the center of today’s crypto chaos. This bill d...

SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4 million people (nearly 10 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and March 2026, based on the latest month of data.

As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fu...

A change is coming.

The White House is sidestepping Congress to make huge decisions for even the most important private industries.

Listen to The Hum by Rowhome Productions on Podcast Addict. The Hum is a podcast hosted by Saul Levin about who controls the future, featuring interviews with people fighting the march of AI and data centers into every aspect of our lives. The show is created in partnership with Rowhome Productions.