Tag: Big Tech
Study finds AI data centers could consume as much water as...
The study highlighted that evaluating AI solely by carbon emissions overlooks devastating localized impacts on water and land systems.
Open letter calls on country’s largest tech company CEOs to power...
AI data center proposals across Indiana are said to have utility companies profiting and raising costs for customers.
Microsoft faces reckoning for assisting Israel’s genocide in Gaza
A new legal and shareholder campaign warns that Microsoft’s military contracts expose the company and its executives to international and domestic liability.
FCC faces backlash over push to lift media ownership limits amid...
Press freedom and civil liberties groups warn that loosening media consolidation rules would further erode independent news, local coverage, and democratic accountability.
The corporations undermining democracy: Big Tech, Big Oil, and private equity...
The report draws attention to how these corporations finance far-right political movements, violate labor laws, exacerbate the climate crisis, and influence media and technology to control narratives.
Maryland lawmakers endorse ban to stop big tech companies from tracking...
Maryland Kids Code would ban technology companies from tracking minors' activity online and then using the data to push targeted ads or manipulate their online behavior for profit.
How Big Tech sees big profits in social-emotional learning at school
Digital products that monitor students’ online behavior raise concerns about how companies use that data for profit.
How unaccountable institutions are shaping your life
Three centers of power increasingly dominate our lives: The Supreme Court, the Federal Reserve, and Big Tech.
The socially responsible tech company: Can big tech be fixed?
having a diverse leadership serves the leaders and members of an organization as much as it does its users.
Why we need to break up big tech
Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists.
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Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
UN inquiry says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
A new UN Commission report details more than 20,000 children killed, tens of thousands injured, attacks on hospitals and schools, and evidence that Palestinian children were treated not as collateral damage, but as targets.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.
Scientists prove extensive Viking silver trade with Abbasid Empire from British silver hoard
The team can now date the influx of silver coinage into Viking realms from the Muslim empires of the Middle East much earlier than had previously been thought.