Remember the last time Trump sent troops to Portland? gizmodo.com/donald-trump...

I wrote about how foreign apparel sellers rushed to cash in on Charlie Kirk’s death. Within hours, these astroturf accounts started flooding Facebook and Instagram with merch ads. Some of these paid posts even claimed “100% of the profits” would go to his orgs and family. tinyurl.com/4x253yn7

In 2021, a 25-year-old US citizen had their DNA collected by CBP at a Chicago airport according to new govt data. They were just one of about 2000 US citizens who had their DNA collected by border agents & shared with the FBI including some as young as 14. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NEW: How does ICE actually use Palantir? A new cache of documents obtained by @justfutureslaw.bsky.social from 2014-2022 give us a fresh look at real examples of how the agency has used the technology to perform enforcement operations www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

My newsletter on Trump's talent tariffs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training docs and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

To think about next time you use Gemini: AI raters contracted by Google describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around their work making chatbots seem intelligent www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Tim Apple put his son on Ozempic

The news today is like "The president gave a pedophile a sexy birthday card" and "Israel probs bombed Qatar holy shit", but me and the rest of the tech journos are like "omggg u guys new iphone!!"

Be Best, bots: Melania Trump has turned her attention from her “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign to the nation’s best bots for tots. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When Ross Ulbricht received a pardon from Trump for running Silk Road, the dark web drug marketplace, we wondered what his next move would be. Over the past 7 months, he's gone on a speaking tour and received tens of millions of dollars in donations. It's a story tailor-made for the Trump era.

Antonio Gracias, one of Elon Musk's closest associates at Doge and in business, is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

🚨Journalism job alert🚨 We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

For Hawaiians, SpaceX rocket debris polluting their waters is distressing. They treat it "like it’s this vast ocean with these tiny, remote specs," one person said. "That smallness and that idea of remoteness... means that the area can be used in this way.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Privacy at a cost: the dark web’s main browser helps pedophile networks flourish, experts say

Finally, this story by Nick Robins-Early dropped! “Just a few months ago, it was hard to imagine that an active government employee at an agency embedded across the government would assume control over a pharmaceutical company seeking FDA approval.” www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

every good Silicon Valley therapeutic ecstasy company takeover starts on the Playa www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

an interesting look at Antonio Gracias, one of Elon Musk's main lieutenants www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

I promise you that this story has the strangest introductory scene you will read today www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Child advocates are accusing the Tor Network of creating a privacy architecture that creates a safe haven for sexual predators www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’: Users say OpenAI’s updated GPT-5 version is less chatty and fun, changing a unique connection they had come to rely on www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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The most delightful—and surprisingly informative—story you'll read today: Jveuxdusoleil (I want sun) taps into a key part of Parisian culture: drinks on the terrasse, as many fear the extinction of the bistrot www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Microsoft employees, outraged by a Guardian story on Azure being used by Israel to store surveillance data collected on Palestinians, occupied HQ in protest in Redmond today www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A fascinating interview about using AI to write and the politics of linguistic connotations www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Newsletter on "skibidi" and simulacra: “Skibidi”, with its use as an emphatic, humorous filler word with “no real meaning”, per Cambridge, refers to nothing so much as the hurtling feeling of scrolling through too many videos in one sitting, a hyperreal word. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Come work with me! I'm hiring an editor on a one-year contract for series of stories about how artificial intelligence is transforming work. More info in the posting: workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/819/

Predicting a sitcom plot where an AI remembers her birthday but her boyfriend doesn't www.theverge.com/news/758624/...

Given recent reports that ChatGPT handles 2.5bn requests a day, the total consumption of GPT-5 could reach the daily electricity demand of 1.5m US homes. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Gazans use social media, especially Bluesky, to crowdfund for milk and diapers. Their desperation leads them to behave like bots. Social networks repeatedly delete their profiles. A guerrilla verification squad has formed to help. @jmbooyah.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I luv cybersecurity

Jim Acosta interviews ‘made-up’ AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

flattered to have started a trend!!! 😍😍😘😘

NEW: SpaceX’s plan to expand in the Pacific has largely flown under the radar. So, I started digging thru thousands of pages of government documents and found the company plans to detonate rockets over the Hawaiian Islands. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Guardian US investigations team is hiring a science reporter, come work with me and break big news about what is happening to science in this country: workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795/

New investigation by @darakerr.bsky.social: How SpaceX won approval to litter the Pacific with blown up Starships www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Elon Musk's empire is in turmoil www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Amazon asks corporate workers to ‘volunteer’ help with grocery deliveries www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I miss that thing where someone on Twitter would pick out a minor detail of an article and screenshot it to highlight what was actually the story's most thrilling facet but which could have never been part of the headline

A report finds Google undercounted its carbon emissions, which rose 65% from 2019 to 2024, not 51% as claimed; biggest yearly jump was 26% between 2023 and 2024 (Johana Bhuiyan/The Guardian) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

As Google builds more data centers to support its AI ambitions, the firm said its carbon emissions increased 51% btwn 2019 & 2024. But a new report paints a bleaker picture: In those 5 years, Google's emissions increased 65% & jumped more than 1500% since 2010 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Six arrested at protest of Palantir, tech company building deportation software for Trump admin www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wow. Pew Research: Today, 34% of U.S. adults say they have ever used ChatGPT, up from 18% in summer 2023.

Meet Blake Montgomery, the Senators prospect taking one ‘big step’ after another www.nytimes.com/athletic/637...

how protest movements finally lost social media nymag.com/intelligence...

The Diddy AI slop business is going great on YouTube. I found 26 channels using false claims and AI slop to cash in on the Diddy trial. They generated ~70 million views from over 900 Diddy videos over the past 12 months. Almost all the channels were monetized. indicator.media/p/youtube-di...

Quite cool to be cited by name in books

Which sin do you relish most

Which sin do you relish most

My latest: Muslims in tech are grappling with a spiritual dilemma: Can I Islamically justify working at a firm that contracts with the Israeli gov't as it decimates Gaza? “Honestly, I’ve been praying about what Allah wants me to do,” 1 Microsoft employee said. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...