The federal workforce purge gutted the very agencies now essential to the Iran war. From FBI counterintelligence teams fired days before strikes to Pentagon IT systems facing "extreme risk," the cost of DOGE is becoming clear.
Opinion Policy & GovernanceA Los Angeles jury just handed down a social media addiction verdict that finds Meta and YouTube liable for hooking a child by design. With 2,500 lawsuits waiting in the wings, this is Big Tech's tobacco moment.
Digital Privacy OpinionTrump proposed the deepest cuts to American science in half a century. Congress blocked most of them. But 25,000 scientists are already gone, 7,800 grants lie in ruins, and the real damage may take a generation to undo.
Opinion Policy & GovernanceThe body positivity movement was supposed to be a revolution. Then the rich found Ozempic, the Oscars went skeletal, and the whole thing collapsed in a single award season.
Opinion Policy & GovernanceThe three-act playbook of regulatory capture: grow before rules exist, then lobby for rules your competitors cannot afford to follow.
Opinion Policy & GovernanceAI eliminated entry-level dev jobs and celebrated the savings. The problem: junior work was the training pipeline for senior engineers. When the current generation retires, there may be nobody left who understands the systems.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionAutocorrect killed spelling. GPS killed navigation. AI intent prediction is coming for the ability to think clearly, and the trade is not as harmless as it looks.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionSaaS pricing is up 8.7% year over year, features keep bloating, and cancellation is an obstacle course. The subscription model was a genuine innovation. What it became is a mechanism for turning customer dependency into revenue growth.
Opinion Tech & SocietyAI coding tools have made it trivially easy to build software nobody asked for. The code is insecure, the developers are slower than they think, and the open-source ecosystem is being buried in noise.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionYouTube is not dying. It is optimizing for engagement over quality, and that is working exactly as designed. The AI slop invasion, creator burnout, and content homogenization are features, not bugs.
Opinion Tech & SocietyThe Matrix trilogy is not a prophecy. It is a diagnosis of how power structures absorb and resell the dissent meant to challenge them.
Opinion Tech & SocietyEverything we fear about AI, from autonomous killing to mass surveillance to treating humans as expendable inputs, has been in production for centuries. The machines are not the threat. They are the mirror.
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