Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025
So here: Ketan Joshi / @ketanjoshi.co : This @mollytaft.com piece is the closest I've seen to an interrogation of who 10a Labs are and why they're doing this - but note how 10a Labs frame the conseque...
West Bank residents, who have long complained of missing and outdated data on Google Maps, say the Israel-Hamas war has made the app even worse for navigation
www.wired.com/story/google... Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : A really interesting (and frustrating) story from @peard33.bsky.social about what it's like to use Google Maps in the West Bank www.wired.c...
Four former Google executives say innovation by rivals is key to breaking Google Search's dominance, and ChatGPT-like tools will one day supplant Google Search
Will a breakup of Google shift perceptions of the company? — www.wired.com/story/doj-go... X: Paresh Dave / @peard33 : Despite shared concerns about Google's power, critics of the company and former...
A look at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, created by Meta, Microsoft, YouTube, and X in 2016 to share info; X quietly left the board this month
Paresh Dave / Wired : X: @sangitamyska X: Sangita Myska / @sangitamyska : 🚨#BigTech : “These secretive membership decisions, revealed for the first time by @WIRED , show how Microsoft, Meta, YouTu...
A deep dive into Reddit's history and the power of its 60K+ unpaid moderators, based on interviews with 60+ current and former mods, employees, and contractors
mods and Reddit employees, current and former—to document the company's very bumpy history in unprecedented detail. By @peard33 @RobertHPeck https://www.wired.com/... Paresh Dave / @peard33 : Seven mo...
Investigation: Palestinians are excluded from or face barriers when trying to monetize via Google services, bringing the region's digital divide under scrutiny
Paresh Dave / Wired : X: @wired and @peard33 X: @wired : People in Palestinian territories have been locked out of YouTube's revenue sharing for creators and other Google services. Human rights organ...
Sony researchers: standardized skin tone scales used by Google, Meta, and others to test their image algorithms don't capture red and yellow hues in human skin
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Stack Overflow CEO says the company plans to charge large AI developers for access to the 50M questions and answers on its service as soon as mid-2023
The programmer Q&A site joins Reddit in demanding compensation when its data is used to train algorithms and ChatGPT-style bots Mastodon: @paul@social.paulkedrosky.com . Tweets: @nwaisb , @jason , @ev...
Twitter's AI ethics researchers rushed to publish a moderation bias study on arXiv in October 2022, deciding their prospects under Elon Musk would be too murky
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Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies have offered a muted response to unrest in Iran, prompting staff side projects to fight internet censorship and more
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