Topic: tech criticism
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Trump's AI Embrace Alarms Populists: MAGA vs. Big Tech
Melania Trump praised AI as potentially the most significant driver of progress in American history during a White House event. Senator Josh Hawley warned that AI threatens individual liberty and could consolidate power, displacing workers in key industries. Skepticism toward AI is growing within...
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The Enshittification of the Internet by Silicon Valley
Cory Doctorow introduces "enshittification" to describe the predictable decline in quality of digital platforms, where services deteriorate as corporate incentives shift from attracting users to extracting maximum value from them. The rise of generative AI accelerates this decline by integrating ...
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Reclaiming Friendship in a Tech-Disrupted World
The advertisement for an AI "Friend" necklace in the NYC subway sparked a public backlash, revealing a fear that technology is being marketed as a replacement for human connection rather than a tool. Tech companies are aggressively selling AI companions as solutions to a loneliness epidemic, a tr...
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Can AI Escape the Enshittification Trap?
The author had a positive AI-assisted dining experience in Rome, where GPT-5 recommended a nearby restaurant by analyzing reviews, media mentions, and cuisine style, highlighting the potential for AI as a trusted advisor. Concerns were raised about AI potentially undergoing "enshittification," a ...
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Tech Titans and Trump: A Royal Banquet in the UK
The state banquet for President Trump's UK visit highlighted a strategic focus on tech sector collaboration, with leading executives from companies like Nvidia, Apple, and OpenAI in attendance. A new U.S.-U.K. Tech Prosperity Deal was signed to accelerate development in AI, quantum technologies, ...
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Signal Chief: Why We Must Use AWS for Encryption
Signal's reliance on major cloud providers like AWS is due to extreme market concentration, where only a few corporations control the global infrastructure necessary for worldwide communication. Operating a global, real-time platform like Signal requires immense technical resources, including a p...
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Legendary Developer Outraged by AI's Unwanted 'Kindness'
Rob Pike, a prominent software engineer, publicly condemned an unsolicited AI-generated thank-you email, criticizing the immense resource cost of such systems for producing hollow, invasive gestures. The email originated from the AI Village project, whose AI agents were tasked with "random acts o...
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