Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Tech

• How Trump’s mission to Mars could save the nation
• Will JD Vance reach a deal on TikTok?
• Are We Making an Enemy of Our Biggest Ally?
• Ohio’s Gritty Fight to Reverse Decadence
• My weird night with the New Right
• FTC probe of Big Tech censorship must seek a LASTING end to the bullying
• Court Voids Discipline of Public School Teacher for Two 2020 Anti-Bernie-Sanders Posts
• Trump is using tariffs as a blunt-force tool. It won’t work | Mike Williams
• Is AI really thinking and reasoning — or just pretending to?
• Elon’s Endgame: What does he want?
• After Spearheading TikTok Ban, Gottheimer Purchased Thousands in Chinese Alibaba Stock
• Elon Musk is selling Tesla to make an important political statement
• China is the only country in the world that can seriously challenge America’s longstanding status as the globe’s top dog
• "I will not be silenced": U.S. Attorney launches inquiry into Democratic rep. over Musk criticism
• TSMC may acquire fellow CHIPS Act beneficiary Intel
• Delta offers $30,000 to all passengers from Flight 4819 that crash-landed in Toronto
• Two 15-year-old and 16-year-old arrested for plotting mass casualty attack on Houston high school
• The White House posted a video showing men shackled to a plane for deportation. Here's what it says
• This week, the hosts discuss the return of Severance, the Oscar-nominated film No Other Land and Buzzfeed’s new social media platform Island
• Why the internet is rallying behind a former private chef in the Hamptons and taking on a big bad media institution
• Yvette Cooper’s war on online privacy
• Supersonic commercial air travel is on its way
• U.K. demands access to any Apple user's data, anywhere in the world
• Video footage shows the moment a Delta flight crashed on the tarmac in Toronto
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has funneled millions to leftist groups
• David Ricardo’s economic theory of ‘comparative advantage’ is not a path to long-term prosperity
• Get Your Slate Plus podcast: How Eric Adams got his charges dropped
• Money Talks: Government Data Is Going Missing
• Delta flight crashes at Toronto airport, airport says: 'All passengers and crew are accounted for'
• The Department of Defense funded a $9.1 million program to build a network of fake social media accounts, according to public spending disclosures
• I became one of the first people ever fired for tweeting, and sadly, far from the last
• Google is big. Does that make it a monopoly?
• Vance Outlines An Open, Forward-Looking AI Agenda
• White House documents reveal that the Department of Defense paid $2.3 million for a virtual reality DEI avatar
• Kennedy scion trolls and more: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 16, 2025
• Millennials and Gen Z are the perfect targets for the new wave of influencers
• An Intimate Memoir of Immigration, Politics, and Trauma
• The Love Affair Between Tech Bros and MAGA Is Already Starting to Turn Ugly
• Mark Zuckerberg’s apparent ‘U-Turn’ on free speech is a leap forward in the march against censorship, writes Paul Coleman
• Is Elon Actually Trying to Buy OpenAI?
• I met the ‘godfathers of AI’ in Paris – here’s what they told me to really worry about | Alexander Hurst
• Can AI teach us anything about our subconscious? I offered up my dreams to find out | Tara Kenny
• OpenAI: "AI Should Empower People to Explore, Debate, and Create Without Arbitrary Restrictions—" ...
• I Would Pay a Fortune to Never Have to Ride in a Tesla Again
• Law professor: What assurance is there that AI systems can be trusted to perform as promised?
• Making Sense of Zuckerberg’s Political “Epiphany”
• Vice President JD Vance and his family toured the newly restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
• Euan Blair: “Education does not only happen on campus”
• I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour | Sonia Kgomo
• A new I&I/TIPP Poll shows Americans concerned about China's AI ambitions
• Why Chinese AI DeepSeek Won’t (and Can’t) Work
• The Brilliance of “Montoya, Por Favor”
• A Naval Officer and Counsel for Lambda Legal Speak Out Against Trump’s Ban
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the organization will reject Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion takeover offer
• The drivers of AI’s future
• Trump has begun to dismantle the foundations for ensuring that artificial intelligence is safe and responsible
• BuzzFeed Is Launching a New Social Media Network. Why?
• Vice President JD Vance addressed world leaders at the AI Action Summit in Paris
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion about the agency and its top officials, according to contract documents
• Countering Digital Deception – Gregory M. Dickinson
• The woman who made the rape kit
• In the age of AI, how do we trust what we see online?
• Google Maps officially updates to 'Gulf of America Day' after Trump declares February 9 as 'Gulf of America Day'
• Life, liberty, and the right to shitpost
• Elon Musk keeps boosting white nationalists on X
• Australian teacher accused of calling herself 'Miss Purr' and 'cat screeches and growls' in class
• How antitrust crusaders brought a porn app to iPhones
• AQA’s Alex Scharaschkin talks about the future of exams and education
• Report: Elon's cybertrucks are deadlier than infamous Ford Pintos
• Trump imposes sanity on a green EV market
• Starboard pushes an open door at Becton Dickinson as company seeks to separate its biosciences unit
• Tech Titans and the Rise of the Surveillance State
• Trump’s trade war with Canada and Mexico is off, Trump proposes a sovereign fund and Kalshi sidesteps sports betting regulations
• Elon Musk, Vice President JD Vance, and President Donald Trump call for USAID staffer to be rehired
• "I say bring him back": JD Vance says avowed "racist" should get a second chance at DOGE
• ProPublica: Deputy News Applications Editor
• The Lattouf trial reveals an ABC so paralysed by process even its managers can’t keep up
• Skills are the key to economic growth
• The Daily Wire’s Jeremy’s Razors debuts its first fully AI-generated ad
• The Private Equity Hatchet Man Leading the Lost Boys of DOGE
• Small tech firm ParkerVision claims big tech giant Qualcomm stole their patented chip before shipping it to China — all while allegedly colluding with the Obama administration
• Guantanamo Bay’s Comeback Is a Warning
• Law professor predicts Trump’s buyout plan will withstand Democrats’ legal challenges in court
• Mark Zuckerberg's company, Meta, just agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Trump
• Google Throws Out Diversity Hiring Targets, Considers Cutting DEI Programs
• How the FCC's 'warrior for free speech' became our censor in chief
• Daniel Penny Lands Silicon Valley Job 2 Months After Acquittal
• Israel Testing Advanced Anti-Drone Technology, Working With U.S. Defense Dept
• The race to God Mode
• In the past few weeks, Reddit has seen an unprecedented surge in violent political content and rhetoric
• USAID's shuttering is a practice run for something bigger from this administration
• Quest House Delivers on Community-Based Post-Op Care for Transmaculine People
• No, Elon: It isn’t illegal to boycott X
• How Trump Can Score a Legal and Political Win on TikTok
• Brickbat: Take a Picture, but Don't Keep It
• China's DeepSeek AI network is a wake-up call for the U.S. to unshackle its innovators, says Ben Shapiro
• How should media cover A.I. and the tech companies that have hitched their wagons to it? Ed Zitron says
• We’re closing the loopholes that allow paedophiles to use AI to sexually abuse children | Peter Kyle
• California Fires Stoke Divisions Among Iranian-Americans
• Is DeepSeek AI’s ‘Sputnik moment’?