US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023
William Michael Haslach was a lunch monitor and traffic guard at a suburban Minnesota elementary school for years …LinkedIn:Kurt Wagner.
How some political candidates and activists across ideologies and professions are pushing back on the spread of data centers and AI in the US
One icy morning in February, nearly 200 people gathered in a church in downtown Richmond, Va. Most had awakened before dawn and driven in from across the state.LinkedIn:Dr. Alicia M. Johnson.
How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit , @besttrousers , @...
A profile of the Digital Security Helpline, run by Access Now, which gives 24/7 help to reporters and others who suspect they are victims of government spyware
For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been targeted and hacked by governments all over the world. LinkedIn: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai . Bluesky: @mohdmaskat...
Interviews with 10 Kenyan AI annotators show how Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability
Rest of World : LinkedIn: Dámiláre Dòsùnmú . Bluesky: @fireantprincess and @restofworld.org LinkedIn: Dámiláre Dòsùnmú : my latest story is about how chinese AI companies are quietly tapping into ken...
Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks
even in gym and band class https://www.nbcnews.com/... LinkedIn: Tyler Kingkade : Whether to ban smartphones in schools was a huge discussion over the past two years, and the banning side clearly won ...
Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month
from content delivery and DDoS protection to DNS services. When Cloudflare has an outage, it doesn't just affect one company; it impacts a Dane Knecht / @dok2001 : You can read the details of what wen...
Sources: UK companies tell the UK that a planned ban on paying ransoms to ransomware gangs is unlikely to stop attacks and could result in services collapsing
Kieran Smith / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Greg Palmer . Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social LinkedIn: Greg Palmer : Georgina Kon and I spoke with Kieran Smith from the Financial Times about the...
An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more
This month, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited … LinkedIn: Kyle K. Courtney . Bluesky: @ecowarriorss . Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.soc...
A profile of Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group, accused by the US and UK of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers
Bloomberg : X: @business . LinkedIn: Russell Ward and Rosalind Mathieson . Forums: r/geopolitics X: @business : Chen Zhi's family office website describes the 37-year-old as a “young business prodigy...