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The midterms will be a referendum on the GOP’s alignment with tech overlords over the public they’re meant to serveWelcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week, Robert Reich highlighted the link between corruption and affordability. Today’s edition was written by
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Monitoring tools common in a range of workplaces, including factories, office jobs, delivery work and in retail – often without employees being informedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEmployers are increasingly using technology, from CCTV to keystroke monitoring, to track workers’ moves and it is being accelerated by the use of
Discover-Tech’s Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly hack targets, say researchers at University of TorontoAn Israeli advertising agency has been serving millions of online adverts that allow “zero-click” spyware to be used against targets, researchers at a Canadian university have said.Citizen Lab, a digital investigations research unit at the University of Toronto,
From the FBI to local police departments, US authorities are increasingly warning of would-be terrorists using chatbots to plan attacks and anti-AI extremist threats In May 2025, a 25-year-old man detonated a car bomb outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic, killing himself and injuring four others. For many, it was a wake up call about
The rise of AI makes the preservation of democracy even more urgent – especially as the technology threatens institutionsAI safety is having a moment. After years as a topic for techies and futurists, the potential risks from artificial intelligence systems – from cyberattacks to hyper-persuasion to rogue behavior – are suddenly under discussion both in
One essential ingredient for AI safety? Democracy | Matthew Botvinick Read More »
Company, which grown rapidly in recent years, has been under scrutiny as privacy concerns growFlock Safety plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras and license-plate readers faces mounting opposition to its products from communities and
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New alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence and AI companies are looming ominouslyHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I sit under yellowing leaves in New York. Today in tech, we’re discussing technocracy.OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI
Trump makes it clear his power is becoming entwined with AI Read More »
Camera-enabled Meta spectacles are already restricted in UK and US because of fears about covert recordingNorway is planning a temporary ban on smart glasses in some public places, amid rising global concern at the spread of the AI-enabled recording devices.The Oslo government is planning a bill to prevent the use of the camera-enabled spectacles in
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Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alertA six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a
