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Paul Mozur

@paulmozur
149 posts
2025-10-27
Instead of exporting oil, the kingdom wants to export computing power.  The idea is coders in Europe, Africa, and Asia connect to Saudi data centers filled with Nvidia and AMD chips.  “Data embassy” zones would be set up so firms operate under their own laws. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...
2025-10-27 View on X
New York Times

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 con...

Saudi's abundant energy means the cost of operating the data center could be 30 percent cheaper than the U.S.  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...
2025-10-27 View on X
New York Times

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 con...

Our latest on the global AI boom looks at how Saudi Arabia is trying to turn is billions in oil wealth into a real advantage in AI.  The calculation is that AI is one of the few businesses that give it the same geopolitical sway that its energy resources have. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...
2025-10-27 View on X
New York Times

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 con...

2025-10-20
When a Microsoft data center opened next to the small Mexican town of La Esperanza, locals say electricity outages and water shortages grew severe. A doctor rushed patients a half hour to the nearest hospital when blackouts cut off his oxygen concentrator. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-10-20 View on X
New York Times

Tech companies' data center building spree is hurting communities globally; Synergy: nearly 60% of the 1,244 largest data centers as of June were outside the US

As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

It's one example of the crises triggered by a global data center building boom. In Ireland next year almost 1/3 of electricity is expected to go to data centers. Often tech companies hide their presence behind subsidiaries and service operators. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-10-20 View on X
New York Times

Tech companies' data center building spree is hurting communities globally; Synergy: nearly 60% of the 1,244 largest data centers as of June were outside the US

As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

2025-04-14
For Geo Group, the surveillance is a profit center. Its margins on the service are about 50%. For an immigrant to send a checkin selfie, it charges the US government $1. Sources said managers pressure employees to rush thru immigrant oversight procedures. It was all about numbers
2025-04-14 View on X
New York Times

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: @hype...

The US' largest private prison operator, Geo Group, runs one of its largest immigrant surveillance programs. Now, ICE is using the privately run system to track and deport growing numbers of people. 200k are currently in the system. Geo expects it to grow. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-04-14 View on X
New York Times

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: @hype...

2024-11-04
On Telegram we are getting a preview of the days to come: “election integrity” groups organize to monitor/challenge voters and poll workers, extremists threaten violence, and a deluge of disinformation seeks to cast doubt on the election if Trump loses: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-11-04 View on X
New York Times

An analysis of 50 Telegram “election integrity” channels with 500K+ users finds disinformation, conspiracy theories, and violent imagery before the US election

Right-wing groups, which use Telegram to organize real-world actions, are urging followers to watch the polls and stand …

2024-09-08
When Pavel Durov was arrested, we were months into an investigation on Telegram. Today we published. We analyzed 3.2 mln messages from 16k channels. We found gun stores run from prison, extremists, criminals, and a platform committed to ignoring it all. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-09-08 View on X
New York Times

Analysis of 3.2M+ Telegram messages from 16K+ channels shows how the app is inundated with criminal activity, CSAM, drug dealers, white nationalists, and more

Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform …

2024-08-27
Our profile of Telegram founder Pavel Durov: prolific sperm donor, practiced troll, and possessor of an impressive six pack. His rebellious streak and commitment to a code that privacy trumps moderation made Telegram huge, and put a target on his back. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-08-27 View on X
New York Times

French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe “against person unnamed” into CSAM, drug sales, and more on the app and not working with authorities

A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform.

Our profile of Telegram founder Pavel Durov: prolific sperm donor, practiced troll, and possessor of an impressive six pack. His rebellious streak and commitment to a code that privacy trumps moderation made Telegram huge, and put a target on his back. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-08-27 View on X
New York Times

A profile of Pavel Durov, a devout techno-optimist who trolled authorities online, started social network VKontakte in 2006, and left Russia in 2014 for Dubai

Pavel Durov's anti-establishment streak helped him create one of the world's biggest online platforms, which emphasizes free speech.

2024-07-29
Important story about how China is catching up in generative AI. A key has been open sourcing, which established foundations from which new models rose. It's critical to realize we're a long way from 2022 and the generative AI horse is out of the barn. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-07-29 View on X
New York Times

A dozen technologists and researchers at Chinese tech companies say open-source technologies were a key reason behind China narrowing the AI gap with the US

2024-07-28
Important story about how China is catching up in generative AI. A key has been open sourcing, which established foundations from which new models rose. It's critical to realize we're a long way from 2022 and the generative AI horse is out of the barn. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-07-28 View on X
New York Times

A dozen technologists and researchers at Chinese tech companies say open-source technologies were a key reason behind China narrowing the AI gap with the US

In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they are already in the hands of consumers and software developers.

2023-07-03
As the FSB demands new tools to crush dissent, Russian companies are getting better at digital surveillance. One startling new tool can track metadata for voice calls and file transfers on encrypted apps like Signal. It is already being marketed overseas. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-07-03 View on X
New York Times

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: @ma...

Based on our findings, people in authoritarian countries should rethink how they use encrypted chat apps. In Russia the tool can track metadata only when someone makes a voice call or sends a file on apps like Signal and Telegram. Messages remain too difficult to follow for now. https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-03 View on X
New York Times

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: @ma...

2023-02-14
Twitter's current dysfunction is having a major impact far from the culture wars that dominate the platform in the U.S. On Chinese language Twitter, activist accounts were blocked/restricted without recourse and info and spam campaigns have proliferated. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-02-14 View on X
New York Times

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 , @...

2022-11-28
Good summary of the spamming we've seen hitting Chinese city names on Twitter as the protests spread. The obvious logic would be to drown out protest posts and make info difficult to find. Diluting negative posts has been a common China info campaign tactic for the past year. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-28 View on X
Washington Post

Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team

For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated

Earlier today was interesting to see Chinese foreign information campaigns springing into action. Even on Twitter they were doing their best to censor. Spamming #乌鲁木齐 with porn to water down tweets about the protests spreading across China. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-28 View on X
Washington Post

Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team

For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated

2022-10-28
Musk says he is committed to free speech and has said he wants to clean up bot networks. But he is conflicted on China with Tesla. Will be worth it to watch closely the state-affiliated media tags and China disinfo investigations in the coming months. We'll see if either survive.
2022-10-28 View on X
Washington Post

Elon Musk takes over Twitter and fires several top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and policy head Vijaya Gadde

Musk's $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company closed on Thursday night  — Elon Musk became Twitter's owner late Thursday …

2022-10-04
Major US restrictions on Chinese supercomputing on the way. Some of the measures have a Cold War era feel, and would shut off American chips from being used in the highest performance Chinese computers. Impact will occur over years, but could be profound. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-10-04 View on X
New York Times

Sources: as soon as this week, the US is likely to limit access of several Chinese AI and supercomputing companies and labs to US tech, machinery, and software

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