Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Europe: ChatControl Wants to Scan All Your Private Messages
September 25th, 2025“No, you can’t opt out.” Mmm hmm. Here are some open source messengers that offer strong security and do not require phone numbers or email addresses to use. Keet Session Via: Metalhearf’s Blog: The European Union is advancing legislation that could fundamentally change how we communicate online. ChatControl would require all messaging platforms to automatically […]
Israeli-Aligned Billionaires Seize TikTok in Battle for U.S. Narrative Control
September 23rd, 2025Via: WikiLeaks: The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison – the largest individual donor to the IDF – will take control of U.S. user data and the algorithm which the White House says will be “retrained”. Ellison, who made […]
Secret Service Foils Massive Plot to Cripple NYC Cell Network and Threaten UN General Assembly
September 23rd, 2025Update: Normal Criminal Activity [???] — Via: New York Post: A massive illegal electronic device network capable of crippling cell towers and jamming 911 calls across New York City was uncovered by the Secret Service — just as world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly, officials said Tuesday. Investigators discovered […]
Bus-Sized Uncrewed Airship Being Tested By NATO As Maritime Surveillance Platform
September 18th, 2025A Finnish hydrogen-fueled dirigible called “Kelluu” is participating in NATO's annual REPMUS exercise.The long-range reconnaissance airship covers an area up to 300 km in diameter.And the promotional video is beautiful. pic.twitter.com/TZYsZaqE4K — Roy?? (@GrandpaRoy2) September 17, 2025 Via: The War Zone: An uncrewed hydrogen-powered autonomous surveillance airship the size of a small bus has been […]
Poland Claims Shot Down Russian Drones After Airspace Violations
September 10th, 2025Trump on Poland's claims Russian drones violated airspace: "Here we go!" pic.twitter.com/ADoBZOPVp5 — cryptogon (@cryptogon) September 10, 2025 Via: Daily Mail: Poland has shot down Russian suicide drones in a dramatic escalation after devices ‘repeatedly violated’ its airspace during an attack on Ukraine. The nation was forced to scramble its air defenses to take out […]
The End of Critical Thinking in the Classroom
September 5th, 2025Via: The Atlantic: AI has transformed my experience of education. I am a senior at a public high school in New York, and these tools are everywhere. I do not want to use them in the way I see other kids my age using them—I generally choose not to—but they are inescapable. During a lesson […]
MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
September 3rd, 2025Via: Public Health Policy Journal: A new MIT study titled, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task, has found that using ChatGPT to help write essays leads to long-term cognitive harm—measurable through EEG brain scans. Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, […]
“When Did Britain Become North Korea?”
September 3rd, 2025Via: Daily Mail: Police were accused of a ‘totalitarian’ clampdown on free speech after the creator of Father Ted was arrested by armed officers over online comments about transgender activists. Fury erupted at the Metropolitan Police’s treatment of TV writer Graham Linehan, who told how he was dealt with ‘like a terrorist’, held in a […]
Gates Foundation: “Digital IDs Are an Effective Tool Against Poverty”
September 2nd, 2025Tell us another one, Bill. Via: Off-Guardian: It looks like we can add another to the growing mountain of problems that digital IDs are going to solve for all of us. We already know that digital IDs will help counter populism, and illegal immigration, and crime, and benefit fraud, and terrorism, and pandemics. But they’ll […]
Mass Vehicle Surveillance in the U.S.
September 1st, 2025Via: Benn Jordan:
