Thieves have exploited antiquated magnetic stripes on benefits cards to steal hundreds of millions of public dollars.

A Kentucky mother and daughter turned down a life-changing offer for their farmland. The ensuing drama has left the town divided.

Remarkably little of the domestic critique appears to have shaped how the system is described to the rest of the world, writes Subhashis Banerjee.

An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.

When the quantum breakthrough comes, data being harvested today will be exposed

Whoever supplies the world’s A.I. will shape how the world thinks.

How the US's long push to deregulate outer space led to SpaceX's dominance of the skies

More entrepreneurs from China believe there are now greater opportunities at home than in Silicon Valley

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Resistance to data centres is rising due to intense resource demands, pollution and wider social impacts. What happens, then, if data centres are put into space?

Financial innovations often lead to upheaval and instability. Despite new regulations, those risks persist with stablecoins.

End big Aid complicity with big tech world food programme: drop palantir Palantir and the World Food Programme: The egregious partnership at the heart of the world´s largest humanitarian supply chain....

The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

SOS Médias Burundi Mahama, Rwanda, June 16, 2026 – Rwanda is continuing its digital transformation with the gradual rollout of a new biometric identity card for all its citizens and residents. This la...

Claude's chatbot may ask to verify your age and identity "in certain circumstances," such as with a passport or driver's license, according to a privacy policy change.

If humanitarian aid organizations embrace tech, they will only be powering the surveillance empire opposed to their goals.

If humanitarian aid organizations embrace tech, they will only be powering the surveillance empire opposed to their goals.

If humanitarian aid organizations embrace tech, they will only be powering the surveillance empire opposed to their goals.

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The undersigned civil society organizations and experts, condemn in the strongest possible terms the cyberattack on the World Food Programme

More oil revenue means deeper pockets for the UAE’s AI investment funds, and more gas means more electricity for its data centers.

Whether or not data centres make it to space, the possibility itself exposes the limitations of resistance hinged only on proximate material experience, thus beckoning a wider and deeper movement.

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, in their conversation with L. Zhang, discuss the political-economic model they call "Muskism."

7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media is gravely concerned by the cyber-attack on the World Food Programme that has exposed the personal data of approximately 600,000 Palestinia...

Notes on how aid works: What WFP leaves out of data breach reports, the humanitarian reset’s neglected crises, and Palantir.

It's an illustration of how the global surveillance ‌economy is shaping the battlefield.

It's an illustration of how the global surveillance ‌economy is shaping the battlefield.

Draft strategy marks shift from regulating Big Tech to favouring European services

The Dutch government has blocked the sale of Solvinity, the company that manages its online services portal DigiD, to the US-based tech giant Kyndryl amid concerns that millions of citizens’ private d...

The EU's decision to give European satellite operators priority could risk a backlash from the Trump administration. #EuropeNews