Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1: www.wired.com/story/iran-t...

Quo Vadis, Crawlers? Progress and what’s next on safeguarding our infrastructure: diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/26/q...

La verifica dell’età in rete non solo non protegge i minori, ma ci mette tutti a rischio: www.wired.it/article/veri...

Last year, a UK Tribunal confirmed Clearview AI is bound by GDPR, in part because of our work. Clearview are now going to the Court of Appeal. We’re seeking to intervene again, supported by our lawyers at @awo.agency

Can Europe’s public service media survive attacks by the far right? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

AI's aesthetics of failure - @bcmerchant.bsky.social: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ais-aesthe...

What is "slop," exactly? maxread.substack.com/p/what-is-sl...

The Jury Has Spoken on Big Tech. Now It’s US Lawmakers’ Turn: www.techpolicy.press/the-jury-has... @techpolicypress.bsky.social

"After Habermas", by Nancy Fraser: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

The FBI is buying Americans’ location data: www.theverge.com/news/897145/...

Doomscrolling

Today in luxury surveillance.

OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora in abrupt announcement: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cash

Opacity is the operating condition of algorithmic necropower.

Fact check: Are Pokémon GO players unwittingly helping to train AI? www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

At the MCM Institute at @unisg.ch we're organizing another professional workshop in journalism and AI, this time focused on detecting AI-generated visuals and verification strategies for media professionals: mcm.unisg.ch/en/weiterbil...

‘It does feel like an intimidation campaign’: why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

New on @wired.it - I reviewed Bruce Holsinger's "Culpability", a novel about a self-driving car crash that becomes something much larger: a diagnosis of AI, responsibility, privilege, and the ideology of technological solutionism. Read it here (🇮🇹): www.wired.it/article/colp...

AI sources like ChatGPT account for less than 1% of publishers’ pageviews, Chartbeat says: www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/ai-s...

"He burned to death at 5,000°F – a fire so hot his bones experienced thermal fracture,”... The lawsuit contends Sheehan could have survived the crash, if he had been able to open the doors and escape the blaze, which flared to temperatures hotter than most cremation ovens.

A wave of AI-generated images and video has emerged from the Iran war. But a new phenomenon is also observable, write shirin anlen and Mahsa Alimardani from WITNESS: the spread of technical-looking analyses used to discredit authentic evidence.

"I’ve never worked at a company that’s more supportive of provocative high-risk journalism than this company,” she said. “That is not true of so many media companies right now.” LOVE THIS.

Wired’s New Editor Doesn’t Care if the Tech Bros Are Mad: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Slopaganda di guerra: complotti.substack.com/p/slopaganda... @blicero.bsky.social

Mr Palantir arriva a Roma, gli affari segreti con la Difesa: www.editorialedomani.it/inchieste/mr...

Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sue them into oblivion "Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal ​court for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its ‌artificial intelligence models" www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Meta's statement about eliminating encryption in Instagram DMs was disingenuous and misleading. Here are the real reasons it's going away www.platformer.news/instagram-en...

Jürgen Habermas Showed What Philosophy Could Be: jacobin.com/2026/03/habe...

AI Firms Can Limit Military Surveillance of Americans. What About of Everyone Else? www.techpolicy.press/ai-firms-can...

Jürgen Habermas ist tot. Der Philosoph und Soziologe starb heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

A Mysterious Code Is Being Broadcast on Shortwave Radio. Is It Iran? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

EU set to ban AI nudification apps in wake of Grok scandal: www.politico.eu/article/eu-g...

If you access to Grammarly, can you see if I have a sloppleganger so I can sue them

Manipulierte Fotos in Berichten zu Iran entdeckt: www.spiegel.de/backstage/me...

Fascinating panel on “Muskism” with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com in Zürich last night, one of the deepest analyses I’ve heard on what Musk means for the economy, politics & tech. The 1 million satellites news gave me chills: www.bbc.com/news/article.... Thanks @woz.ch for organizing.

Tonight! Come through.

Il racconto politico e mediatico dei conflitti costruisce urgenza e schieramento. Analizzarlo è il primo passo per non scambiare una scelta politica in un destino inevitabile

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives: www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

The janitors of the internet: newint.org/science-and-... @adiod.bsky.social

La guerra in Iran colpisce i data center: www.internazionale.it/podcast/ilmo...

Swiss voters reject cuts to licence fee: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-po...

Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware: techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/i...

But my employer’s told me that its partnership with this Department of “War” partner is how I will “empower” myself & my students. Boy, who’d have predicted such a pickle!🤷‍♂️ www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/11/12/u...