Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Tech

• Big reckoning for Big Tech? EU’s fines on Meta, Apple won’t change bad behavior
• Facebook's parent company says two posts about trans-identifying males do not violate hate speech rules
• Trump rolls back Obama-era guidance on school discipline and accreditors
• Google broke the law. It’s time to break up the company
• The Flight Attendant Who Wants You to Go on Strike
• We must rethink energy security for today’s complex world
• The EU fined Apple and Meta – but failed to really hold them to account. Was that to appease Trump? | Alexander Hurst
• Meta’s Oversight Board expresses indignation at Facebook’s January policy overhaul
• Farewell to the Lady, a magazine for more genteel times
• Toyota to invest $88 million to boost hybrid vehicle production in West Virginia
• How Iowa Made Discrimination Legal Again
• How pathetic is Washington that it took five years—and an anti-Washington outsider president—to address China
• Who are the real villains of Sinners?
• "Day or two per week": Musk promises decreased time at DOGE as Tesla profits plummet
• Trump & Co. must put the brakes on idle threats and keep its vow to end congestion tax
• Minnesota state employee Dylan Bryan Adams won't be charged with criminal conduct for damaging six Teslas
• Pulitzer Center: Audience Engagement Manager
• Lighthouse Reports: Visual Impact Producer
• Missouri 13-year-old suspended for making a rifle out of Dr. Pepper cans
• Elon Musk might want to add Reddit to his free speech portfolio
• "Tinder Backgrounds" to Appear in Georgia Law Review
• The intelligence community’s AI revolution
• Data journalists Jennifer LaFleur and Jaimi Dowdell offer tips on presenting numbers correctly
• With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik
• Could North Sea oil unlock a US trade deal?
• Europe Could Lose What Makes It Great
• Corporate chiefs gave Trump’s inaugural committee $250 billion. Benefits abound.
• Trumpâs vision for technological greatness
• White House Easter Egg Roll gets Big Tech sponsors
• Elliott Management takes a stake in Hewlett Packard Enterprise. How the firm may create value
• Pep Talks and Practical Advice for Creatives
• New Jersey Sues Online Platform Discord Over Child Predator Concerns
• Google Is a Monopolist … Again
• What America Gets Wrong About the AI Race
• Make ‘rare’ earth mineral production less rare - Washington Examiner
• The Trump administration wages war on Meta
• In 12 years, this $40 billion high-speed rail line in Texas has not laid a single foot of track
• 17-year-old accused of killing mom, stepfather was inspired by terror network, court records show
• "We're going to get answers": Texas Democrat presses ICE over an avowed "fascist" in its ranks
• Judge Rules Google Illegally Monopolized Key Ad Markets
• Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program
• Investigating the Systemic Failures Enabling Abuse on Dating Apps
• The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case
• The U.S. State Department says it's eliminating the Global Engagement Center
• Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg offered FTC nearly $1 billion to avoid antitrust trial
• Does tween tech study prove Jonathan Haidt right?
• Aliakbar Mohammad Amin, 24, allegedly sent threats to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her family over text and social media
• When a State Tells Trump ‘No’
• Get Your Plus podcast: Did Remi Bader Lie To Her Followers?
• This week, the hosts discuss Your Friends and Neighbors, A Minecraft Movie, Slate and the All-Female Blue Origin Flight
• Self-Reliance: The Lost Trail of Silicon Valley - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Honda plans to shift car production from Canada and Mexico to U.S., Nikkei reports
• Money Talks: Why Are Student Loans So Broken?
• A train from the UK to Italy? We've heard that one before, but I'm on board | Jonn Elledge
• How America Can Stay Ahead of China in the AI Race
• U.S. stocks open on a high note after Trump temporarily exempts tech giants from new tariffs
• NVIDIA to manufacture AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. for the first time
• Trump can't make up his mind about which Chinese products will have tariffs
• The U.S. and China continue their tariff war, and El Salvador’s president is set to visit the White House
• Project 2025’s Plan for Your Family
• The White House is using social media to capture the president’s policy agenda
• California bill would require children younger than 10 to sit on booster seat
• Airline pilot breaks down the industry’s ‘robust safety programs’ after high profile incidents
• Commerce Secretary Lutnick: Tariff Tech ‘Exemptions’ Are Not Permanent
• TikTok: Somehow Also Affected by the Tariffs
• It’s time to consign these giant SUVs to the rubbish heap of history
• The Trump administration released new guidance on its tariff on China, exempting electronic devices like smartphones and laptops
• Why the end of obnoxious influencer culture may finally have arrived
• Former Facebook executive accuses company founder Mark Zuckerberg of working 'hand in glove' with Chinese Communist Party
• $3 Billion Up From Down Under to Help US Build Submarines
• The Markets Have Never Hung on One Person’s Whims Before
• In the 12 years since Spike Jonze’s sci-fi film Her was released, we’ve seen emerging technologies change and morph into something many of us could never have imagined
• Christopher Rufo: ‘It Won’t Be Easy’
• Jensen Huang: the man who powers AI
• Inside the ugly world of Facebook
• U.S. to screen immigrants’ social media for anti-Semitic content and any history of physically harassing Jews
• How to think in the age of AI
• Trump says Apple should move production to the U.S. as China increases tariffs
• Is it fair for a company to fire someone just because they go viral?
• Western Green Mandates Push Africa Toward Moscow
• Please, for the love of God, stop buying supersized cars | Arwa Mahdawi
• Planning Pride Amid Political Backlash
• Is Trump going to kill the congestion pricing con or not?
• The growing popularity of motion tracking on social media is a symptom of a widespread attention crisis
• Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have had a good few months. Here's why
• The Mass Grave in Gaza
• Archie’s mother Elaine was diagnosed with an illness that doctors wanted to treat with surgery, but her skepticism led her down a different path
• The kids are right, smartphones aren't all bad news
• Keep CCP Spyware Out of U.S. Healthcare
• Death seems to have become an easy way to generate clicks on the mainstream internet. It’s profoundly disturbing
• I Should Not Have to Fight for Fair Treatment in the Workplace | ACLU
• Federalist Solutions to AI Regulation – Kevin Frazier
• The solution to Britain’s decline is right beneath our feet
• The Practical Problems of Rubio’s Visa Hardball
• Drones Don’t Render Traditional Weaponry Obsolete
• Trump tariffs derail TikTok deal with China
• What is up with car door handles these days? | Dave Schilling
• Christianity, Inc.: The Rise of Silicon Valley’s False Prophets - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Meta, Facebook's parent company, will end its U.S. fact-checking program on Monday
• New York state Sen. Pat Fahy wants to pull Tesla’s permits to bypass auto dealerships and sell Teslas directly to consumers