Tech & Big Tech

from the oh-the-Garbage-Man-can dept For weeks, we’ve been told the threat posed by the trafficking of illegal drugs is indistinguishable…

from the department-of-murder dept It was never enough to simply expel migrants as quickly as possible for the Trump administration.…

You might think Amazon’s biggest swing in the AI race was its $8 billion investment in Anthropic. But AWS has…

Amazon has announced a new family of frontier artificial intelligence models—and a new way for customers to build frontier models…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and scores of state and local law enforcement agencies…

from the everything-I-disagree-with-is-biased dept Not content with just filing baseless lawsuits against media companies who say mean things about our…

Technology can uplift democracy, or it can be an authoritarian weapon. EFF is making sure it stays on the side…

from the buy-in-complete dept What a difference a near-decade makes. Back in 2017, the main concerns raised by New York…

from the what-the-actual-fuck? dept Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn’t get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to…

from the think-of-the-children dept Twenty years ago, John Jonik released one of the best political cartoons ever regarding attempts to…

from the executive-bullshit dept The Trump administration just lies and lies and lies. Those in charge assume they can just…

Flock, the automatic license plate reader and AI-powered camera company, uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning…