How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M+ people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work
Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it's too late.LinkedIn:Paul Mozur.Forums:r/indiaLinkedIn:Pa...
How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t... Paul Mozur / @paulmozur : Instead of exporting oil, the kingdom wants to export computing power. The idea is coders in Europe, Africa, and Asia connect to Saudi data c...
A look at the social debates in Chile over AI investments, emblematic of clashes happening globally over balancing economic growth with environmental concerns
Paul Mozur / New York Times : LinkedIn: Daniel Sepulveda LinkedIn: Daniel Sepulveda : This is an interesting article about the relative costs and benefits of nations in the global South allowing data...
How private prison company Geo Group built a lucrative side business making digital tools like smart watches and tracking apps to help ICE surveil immigrants
After a Honduran immigrant arrived in the United States in 2022, officials ordered him to use a government-issued app as part of an immigration surveillance program. Bluesky: @hypervisible , @marypcbu...
How Ukraine is using AI, code found online, and hobbyist computers to weaponize consumer tech and build low-cost weapons like autonomous drones and machine guns
New York Times : LinkedIn: Jeremy Kahn and Paul Mozur Forums: Hacker News , r/neoliberal , r/Futurology , r/technews , and r/ukraine LinkedIn: Jeremy Kahn : There are few risks from AI that terrify m...
A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors, many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for use by the FSB
Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. Mastodon: @Mer__edith@mastodon.world . Twitter: @matthew_d_green , @sat...
Over 30 prominent Chinese dissidents and activists report problems with their Twitter accounts, including disappearing from search or unexplained suspensions
As the Elon Musk-owned social media service encounters interruptions and bugs, Chinese dissidents and activists said they feared they were being muzzled. Tweets: @sarahemclaugh , @alexanderburns , @sh...
An investigation based on nearly 160K Roskomnadzor documents details Russia's expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus, which helps Putin maintain power
Four days into the war in Ukraine, Russia's expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus was already hard at work. Tweets: @paulmozur , @bbhorne , @bbhorne , @fcdservicea_llc , @fcdservicea_llc , @...
China's “internet police” force, which had 1,200 officers in 2016, has ramped up questioning of those who criticize the government's coronavirus response
Paul Mozur / New York Times : Tweets: @newportwonk and @telltaleatheist Tweets: @newportwonk : “Officers arrive with an unexpected rap at the door of online critics. They drag off offenders for hours...
How both sides in Hong Kong's protests use facial recognition as a weapon, with police using it for repression, and protesters using it to doxx police officers
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