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TechCrunch

Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction | TechCrunch

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

404 Media

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden - ArcticToday

The land covers an area almost the size of Liechtenstein.

404 Media

How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

ABC News

Pentagon breach exposed sensitive data on nearly 3 million people

The breach included Social Security numbers and details about jobs people held.

404 Media

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.

Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

The Real News Network

The Atlantic’s Hasan Piker meltdown perfectly distills elite media’s warped priorities

Zero stories in the Atlantic about Hind Rajab, zero stories about Israel killing medical workers or journalists—but five articles in two weeks on a Twitch streamer.

Truthout

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own

Board of Governors appointees overseeing the curricula include roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

CleanTechnica

Renewable Energy 44.7% of EU Electricity Production in 2023 — Now #1! - CleanTechnica

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles. Eurostat has now released electricity data from 2023, and it shows that ... [continued]

The "meritocracy" exposed: Internal emails reveal how the Trump administration hires legal interns

“You MUST be aligned politically with President Trump… GPA is not a strong factor.”

themarkup.org

We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online – The Markup

Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice.

Open Source Guy

California’s AB 1043 Could Regulate Every Linux Command, and the Open Source World Is Too Quiet

California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043), approved by Governor Newsom in October 2025, sets out a statewide age assurance framework for operating systems and app stores. It requires o…

Tampa Bay Times

Glyphosate in bread? It’s sprayed by the pound in Florida waters

State health officials aren’t calling to stop the practice.

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising

Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavioral advertising, which is when companies personalize the ads they show you based on the data they’...

ProPublica

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.