The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

This is another in my occasional series of posts on stuff you might not be told but you will not in fact learn by osmotic immersion in the Academic Ether. (See also my posts on writing job applications, giving a job presentation and what to expect in a job interview.) This time: how to chair a conference session. As always, these are my thoughts - cross-check them with your peers, mentors, supervisors, best academic mates.

Abstract. Electromechanical computers began to emerge in the late 19th century and reached their apex in the late 1930s and 1940s, culminating in landmark

CC BY-NC-NDThe open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding and support from MIT Press Direct to Open.

The AAUP ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions developed the following toolkit resources to fight against the top-down adoption of technology by colleges and universitie...

How to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground By Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney A dancing ledge, as viewed from above. Image: Will...

In this post, Julia Rootenberg reflects on her trip to Puglia, Italy, and informal surveillance.

The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it.

The surveillance company announced shorter data retention and new oversight after a wave of attacks on its cameras.

Submit to this special issue seeking to advance emerging scholarship on the ethical, relational, and professional implications of AI in social work

A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

Steve Elmers, also known as the “Guardrail Guy,” is done calling out license plate readers after two that appeared in his videos were vandalized.

Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...

Many white-collar professionals worry about the tech inhibiting creativity and making errors

Leading the Future is spending $125 million to defeat AI safeguards. See which candidates Big Tech is backing — and which are being attacked for supporting AI regulation.

Arrangement comes as AI lab is locked in legal battle with Pentagon over Claude model

Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network is looking for an early-career researcher to join us as a Newsletter Editor for our widely read and growing newsletter.

The night before the start of the Fall 2025 semester, facilities workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill quietly boarded up a pro-Palestine mural. The mural, created by art students...

Today it’s our pleasure to present the second of the films produced following the re-launch of the Antipode Film Project in May 2023 (the first can be viewed here). The brief was to create something “...

The European Union (EU) authorities use drones and other border surveillance systems to track migrant boats departing from the Libyan coasts heading towards European territories. They share this da...

It joins a growing number of jurisdictions that are scaling back, or canceling, contracts with the controversial spytech company.

A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it