Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI
The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly…
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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke
Here’s a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May…
Bellingcat Official Merch Design Contest
Guess what? Bellingcat is finally launching an official merch line! That’s right: after years of fantasizing and wishing, we’re finally ready to get our name…
South Sudan: UNICEF reaches communities cut off by conflict in Jonglei state
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners have delivered lifesaving assistance to families in conflict-affected communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, many of whom had…
Countries must increase AI regulation to avoid ‘existential risks’: Türk
Voluntary self-regulation by companies developing frontier artificial intelligence (AI) is “nowhere near sufficient” to address existing harms and prevent advanced autonomous AI models from circumventing…
UN agencies warn humanitarian system in Sudan ‘could collapse’
UN aid agencies on Monday said they may be forced to scale back humanitarian aid in Sudan – home of the world’s worst hunger and…
Rightsholders Can’t Use OpenAI and Anthropic to Dismantle Meta’s Seeding Defense
Meta previously argued that uploading pirated books to other BitTorrent users was an unavoidable side effect of downloading them, and therefore fair use. Rightsholders suing…
Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026)
Today’s links But do you use keyboard shortcuts?: AI people are WEIRD. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: “Changeling”; Sony Rootkit vs…