“These people are treating AI as if it’s a human in disguise, with human motives, with human emotions,” said University of Washington professor Pedro Domingos.

Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump’s mass deportation, as local cops, lured by federal cash, bust scores of migrants.

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The Darkened Hour will host interviews with the leading experts in their fields relating to the September 11th 2001 attacks. Content will also expand to fields relating to said event with invigorating...

A new book by longtime Bay Area journalist Gil Durán investigates “tech fascism” and its mounting influence on U.S. politics. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy follows th...

Sarah Kendzior recently penned a must-read newsletter essay on Substack entitled Quicksand: Gen X was right after all. I am not of the X generation but do have two adult children who are. I keep thin...

The Pentagon has changed how troops deaths are counted in the Iran war, prompting an effort by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) to require the Trump administration to keep an accurate public count.

A Nikkei study found Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle carry $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet debt for AI, more than they report. It is all legal.

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

"The story that a German newspaper used AI to create a 'Nazi search engine' is just too good to ignore."

As AI insinuates itself into every corner of our lives, many of us are growing inured to the push to digitize the whole world—including humanity itself.

by Thomas Drake On 4 July 2026, the United States turned 250 years old as it celebrated its Semiquincentennial anniversary and the birth of a new nation. But the question that hangs over every firewo...

Former employee files complaint accusing company of ‘coercive surveillance’ and first amendment violation

AI might be the biggest religious experiment in human history | Edition #298

This all started because of two things, I am an engineer, and I wasn’t coping well with my father’s death. He had died about seven years before, but his death kept intruding on my life. I had so …

There are no excuses for any Member of Congress to support a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Anyone who votes to do so does not take your privacy seriously. Full stop. Section 702 of the Foreign...

Section 702 of the FISA allows intelligence agencies to collect emails, calls, and messages from foreigners abroad, but in practice, it also sweeps in Americans’ communications when they interact…

Xi Jinping’s ruthless reign in China offers important lessons for aspiring authoritarians.

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The special counsel’s office found that Donald Trump held on to documents so secret that only six people could legally review them — and the team believed his reason for doing so was financial gain.

The government insists it isn't surveilling ordinary Canadians; it's just requiring every company to store their location data, device information, and daily movements for a year, just in case.

The director of national intelligence has mismanaged a whistleblower complaint involving Jared Kushner and Iran

DETROIT – Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) introduced the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act to reform the Espionage Act to prevent its use and abuse against whis...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

A live breakdown of Trump’s surrender demand, Israel’s widening assault on Tehran and Beirut, and the humanitarian, diplomatic and energy shockwaves now spreading across the region.

A landmark civil lawsuit filed by 9/11 victims accuses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of funding a jihadist cell in Southern California.

News that President Donald Trump had fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from her job and demoted her to "Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas" caused a wave of reactions online Thursday. Following two tough days of grilling by congressional leaders who pressed Noem about her leade...