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Friday, October 16, 2026
Israel-based "AdFection"... Spyware vendors found a way to make targeted ads even worse- Israeli adtech outfit allegedly helped spyware vendors infect phones while enjoying Google's seal of approval
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Carly Page The online advertising industry has found a new way to make itself even more unpopular, with one adtech outf...
Friday, October 9, 2026
It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable
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Opinion Israel How do human beings rationalize genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look Omer Bartov ( the dean’s professor of holocaust and...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
"Perhaps I should be terrified by this announcement from a man who, for all his sins, knows a thing or two about technology. But I’m sick of hearing about the hypothetical dangers of AI when the technology is being used to kill people today. Gates may not be directly involved in Microsoft any more, but, rather than making prophecies about the future, I’d love to hear what he thinks about the company’s role in the AI-enabled destruction of Gaza." Arwa Mahdawi
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Bill Gates thinks AI could kill a billion people – but can we trust his judgment after Epstein? Arwa Mahdawi in The Guardian He knows a ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
"Peace and security. Inequality. Climate. Artificial intelligence. These are the four great power tests of the future. And they are interlinked." - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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"Peace and security. Inequality. Climate. Artificial intelligence. These are the four great power tests of the future. And they are int...
Monday, September 14, 2026
"It’s worth remembering that no one actually asked for AI, and yet here it suddenly is trying to kill us. And even if that’s averted, it’s embedding itself in our workplaces and in our emotional lives (ChatGPT may be the largest provider of mental health services in the US), robbing us of the capacity for critical thinking, and threatening economic and social stability." Brigid Delaney
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‘Flourishing is having a direct relationship with the natural world – not the world through a screen, or the natural world itself destroye...
Children. Displaced people. Farmers. Shepherds. People returning to check their homes. Israeli drones track their movements, and strike them with precision.
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Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR Israeli forces are using armed quadcopter drones to hunt down and kill Palestinian civilians in #Gaza . Sinc...
Saturday, August 22, 2026
"And whatever shape the first major AI-related disaster takes, it won’t impact all countries, companies and people equally. It therefore seems unlikely that just one disaster will be enough to bring us humans to our senses, acting together to control the superhuman power we are creating. I really hate to say this, but … an AI Hiroshima? We should be so lucky." Timothy Garton Ash in The Guardian
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Illustration: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I ...
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