Subjects Archives: Internet

The general belief is that we already have or are on the cusp of creating machines that possess human-like intelligence which will be able to accomplish most tasks that humans can do, making a lot of us redundant and taking away a whole range of employment opportunities.

Tech firms like Amazon and Google ‘have enormous responsibility’ for driving fossil fuel expansions, climate expert argues.

Social media bans on African Stream should remind us that corporations will never facilitate anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist narratives and stir us to look for alternatives.

“I am not free today because the system worked,” said Assange. “I am free today because after years of incarceration I pleaded guilty to journalism.”

Earlier this year, despite widespread protest, President Joe Biden signed legislation forcing TikTok’s owner “to sell it or face a nationwide prohibition in the United States”.

The Trudeau government is playing a dangerous game with its latest censorship push.

Is it just our filter bubbles? Or is an understanding of the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) slowly making its way into the mainstream?

In what it called “China Week”, the U.S. House of Representatives approved 25 anti-Chinese laws over a few days, in bipartisan votes. Cold War Two fervor is reaching fever pitch in Washington.

In the hands of corporations, the hidden costs of AI will continue to be paid by working people across the globe.

The decision was the product of an escalating dispute between the STF and X’s fascistic CEO, Elon Musk.

An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities.

A DUTCH data protection watchdog has issued facial recognition tech Clearview AI with a €30.5 million (£25.7m) fine for creating an “illegal database” of billions of faces.

Cybersecurity has become a central element in Venezuela, in a context where computer attacks have not ceased since the presidential elections.

“All state platforms have been attacked in multiple ways,” said Minister Jiménez when presenting the report. She highlighted that among the affected systems, the National Placement System (SNI) received four million attacks per hour. The SNI is the placement platform for new students in Venezuelan universities.

Attacks on the Venezuelan electoral system have reached the terrain of cyberwarfare, according to the complaints made by President Nicolás Maduro, the authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE), and the Attorney General’s Office (MP).

Outpacing the U.S. 6 to 1.

Nvidia’s brief streak as the world’s highest valued company in the last several weeks has catapulted the chipset manufacturer into the headlines all over the world. A year ago, Nvidia was valued at just under $1 trillion. Nine months later, it blew past the $2 trillion mark, and just 30 days after that, for a moment in June 2024 Nvidia peaked at $3.3 trillion.

We are told that Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be a powerful tool for advancing democratic concerns and human rights across Africa. Yet, there are also early indicators that AI could undermine democratic institutions and processes, especially if these technologies prioritise colonial-capitalist development trajectories. Scott Timcke looks at some of the issues at stake.

At long last the WikiLeaks founder is free. For all those who care about freedom of speech it’s time to celebrate, writes TIM DAWSON of the International Federation of Journalists.

A NEW AI (Artificial Intelligence) model, AlphaFold3, has excited the scientific community.