Hidden Costs of AI are Accelerating the Climate Crisis
While AI has helped make progress in addressing serious climate issues, the harms caused by the hidden costs of AI may outweigh its benefits.
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Content tagged with “Big Tech” means the news, video, or other content is about the social media networks like Facebook, commonly called Big Tech.
The IRS is buying an AI supercomputer from Nvidia
How exactly the IRS will use the SuperPod AI hardware is unclear. But it comes amid a push for automation in government.
A reason to believe Trump will save TikTok
There is a simple reason to believe that Trump's comments about saving TikTok may have some weight to them.
Biden farewell speech: Warned of oligarchy and “tech industrial complex”
President Joe Biden addressed the nation in a farewell speech last night. He issued a warning about an oligarchy of extreme wealth and power currently taking shape that will threaten democracy. He also warned of a “tech industrial complex,” citing Meta no longer performing…
The Accelerationists’ App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists
From attempting to incite racial violence to encouraging attacks on critical infrastructure, the alleged crimes planned by extremists on Telegram go far beyond the charges facing its CEO.
Amazon Fixes Alexa ‘Error’ After Devices Give Different Answers on Harris and Trump
Amazon’s Alexa devices are under fire after the virtual assistant seemingly shut down a question about Donald Trump but readily answered the same one about Kamala Harris.
With AI sexual abuse on the rise, the White House is tapping Big Tech for support
Image-based sexual abuse, a problem that AI has intensified in recent years, touching everyone from students to public figures like Taylor Swift and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
No, Bill Gates didn’t cause July 19 worldwide IT outage
People were posting on X Friday that Bill Gates was responsible for a worldwide IT outage that was actually caused by Crowdstrike. DEI not the cause, either.
The Pyramid of Power: Big Tech’s Ties to the Intelligence Community
The rise of large technology companies, such as Facebook and Google, is not a fairy tale of free market success. It is a dark and disturbing story of corporate welfare and deep ties to the intelligence community.
‘The Pyramid of Power’ is a docuseries by The Conscious Resistance Network (“TCRN”) that exposes people and institutions seeking to manipulate our world. This 3-part, 16-chapter series raises awareness about power structures in society, covering topics like the financial system,
Nearly every Big Tech tool you use today was funded, in part, by the US intelligence community and supported in various ways by the US government itself.
One Facebook Ad Promotes a For-Profit College; Another a State School. Which Ad Do Black Users See?
Facebook’s advertising algorithm disproportionately targets Black users with ads for for-profit colleges, according to new paper by a team of university researchers.
Like all major social media platforms, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, does not disclose exactly how or why its billions of users see certain posts and not others, including ads. In order to put Facebook’s black-box advertising system to the test, academics from Princeton and the University of Southern California
Researchers tested for bias in Facebook’s algorithm by purchasing ads promoting for-profit colleges and studying who saw them.
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