How Silicon Valley giants like Amazon and Palantir team up with ICE to hunt down immigrants, pick out the innocent as potential criminals, and build the cloud for Defense Department and CIA.
Read more...Why the European Copyright Directive would have a disastrous impact on the Internet, and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it’s about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics.
Read more...The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...More on the dismal economics of being an Uber driver.
Read more...Trump’s DoJ yesterday filed a lawsuit to overturn California’s net neutrality law, signed by Governor Jerry Brown earlier during the day.
Read more...Elon Musk put himself in the SEC’s crosshairs.
Read more...Once again, some Uber and Lyft data that ought to generate more questions instead gets a free pass from the press.
Read more...More proof that CalPERS has no shame.
Read more...Rising bond yields pose a problem to Tesla’s survival.
Read more...Life along Woonsquatucket, and what “a screw loose” really means.
Read more...Matt Taibbi weighs in on how tech giants are endangering your civil liberties.
Read more...Despite months of IT mayhem and all kinds of problems, customers cling to TSB Bank in the UK.
Read more...An insider’s take on surveillance.
Read more...To understand labor productivity—and growing inequality—you have to look at the “dual economy”
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