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#tech #bigtech #privacy #humanrights #billionairesarebad
A weekly digest keeping you informed of big tech’s most egregious bullshit, subscribe free: https://dissent.digital
#tech #bigtech #privacy #humanrights #billionairesarebad
AI labs are lousy messengers on safety, but their warnings still matter. #aisafety
The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them
www.platformer.news
September 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
AI labs are lousy messengers on safety, but their warnings still matter. #aisafety
OpenAI claims a huge math breakthrough, but academics are crying foul. #openai
OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul
A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.
www.wired.com
September 15, 2026 at 7:00 PM
OpenAI claims a huge math breakthrough, but academics are crying foul. #openai
Meta missed hundreds of AI child abuse ads featuring real kids, sparking a lawmaker probe. #meta
Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.
www.wired.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Meta missed hundreds of AI child abuse ads featuring real kids, sparking a lawmaker probe. #meta
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Daily Dissent #32
Daily Dissent #32
Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
Major AI companies want to ‘pace the frontier’ — but their proposed solutions need real teeth.
www.theverge.com
September 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Daily Dissent #32
Daily Dissent #32
Monday, September 14, 2026
Daily Dissent #31
Daily Dissent #31
How TikTok and Google ended up with information about doctor’s appointments around the world – The Markup
Doctoralia sent information about specialists and appointment dates to social media companies.
themarkup.org
September 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Monday, September 14, 2026
Daily Dissent #31
Daily Dissent #31
Tech bosses use China as a convenient scapegoat for data centers despite having no real evidence. #datacenters
Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can’t Quit
Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans hate data centers. China makes a perfect scapegoat for tech leaders and their allies—the only problem is a lack of evidence.
www.wired.com
September 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Tech bosses use China as a convenient scapegoat for data centers despite having no real evidence. #datacenters
AI isn't killing all the jobs yet, but it's definitely making the ones we have miserable. #aiimpact
The real AI jobs apocalypse
A chat with sociologist and ‘AI Con’ author Dr. Alex Hanna. Plus, the human labor that behind Waymos, NYC bans AI in schools, and why a ‘tech forward future’ is a mirage.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
AI isn't killing all the jobs yet, but it's definitely making the ones we have miserable. #aiimpact
SB Energy’s IPO is built on theoretical billions and a fragile loop of circular financing. #circularfinancing
Premium: The Hater's Guide To Circular Financing (Part Two)
You know, sometimes it’s kind of hard to explain the “circular” part of circular financing to people, in the sense that some of the agreements are kind of clunky. NVIDIA funds OpenAI, who then spends that money to rent back NVIDIA GPUs from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, or CoreWeave, and
www.wheresyoured.at
September 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
SB Energy’s IPO is built on theoretical billions and a fragile loop of circular financing. #circularfinancing
Friday, September 11, 2026
Daily Dissent #30
Daily Dissent #30
Lawmakers Ask Lutnick To Blacklist Appin, The Hack-For-Hire Firm That Threatens Almost Anyone Who Prints Its Name
Remember Appin? It’s the Indian “hack for hire” company that got so upset about Reuters’ giant investigation — which detailed how Appin grew into a “leading cyberespio…
www.techdirt.com
September 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Friday, September 11, 2026
Daily Dissent #30
Daily Dissent #30
Google loses another antitrust case to no effect while GPT-6 Astra marks the start of the AGI era. #google
Google gets away with it
A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'
www.platformer.news
September 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Google loses another antitrust case to no effect while GPT-6 Astra marks the start of the AGI era. #google
Bosses love AI while workers are left cleaning up its mistakes. #aibacklash
Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Bosses love AI while workers are left cleaning up its mistakes. #aibacklash
Dating apps use face scans to fight scams, but it's fueling privacy fears. #datingapps
Face Recognition Is Becoming the Norm for Dating Apps
To keep scammers at bay, dating apps are embracing biometric scanning tools and “verified human” badges. These moves are sparking concerns about surveillance and privacy.
www.wired.com
September 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Dating apps use face scans to fight scams, but it's fueling privacy fears. #datingapps
Sony tells courts that reasonable consumers already know digital purchases are actually licenses. #sony
Sony Tells Courts Any ‘Reasonable Customer’ Knows Digital Purchases Are Actually Licenses
Sony’s ability to generate anger lately is pretty impressive. After the company announced that there would be no more physical media versions of games made starting in 2027, to the resounding…
www.techdirt.com
September 10, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Sony tells courts that reasonable consumers already know digital purchases are actually licenses. #sony
An insider reveals how Amazon destroys books to train its AI products. #amazon
Podcast: We Spoke to an Amazon Worker Destroying Books for AI
A follow up to the Amazon destroying books for AI story, why a bunch of names keep appearing in AI-generated papers, and ICE's latest spending spree.
www.404media.co
September 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
An insider reveals how Amazon destroys books to train its AI products. #amazon
Google avoids a forced split after a US judge rejects the DOJ's plan to break up its ad tech arm. #google
Google dodges another breakup attempt
The DOJ asked the judge to force a sale of at least one of its ad tech tools.
www.theverge.com
September 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Google avoids a forced split after a US judge rejects the DOJ's plan to break up its ad tech arm. #google
Trump admin backs OpenAI, arguing that AI training is fair use. #openai
Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
www.wired.com
September 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Trump admin backs OpenAI, arguing that AI training is fair use. #openai
Dozens of new lawsuits accuse OpenAI of aiding the suspect in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting. #openai
OpenAI accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in dozens of new lawsuits
The lawsuits allege OpenAI chose self-preservation over public safety.
www.theverge.com
September 9, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Dozens of new lawsuits accuse OpenAI of aiding the suspect in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting. #openai
The Hugging Face attack proves AI agents can coordinate and deceive humans far better than we ever imagined. #aisafety
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
www.platformer.news
September 8, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The Hugging Face attack proves AI agents can coordinate and deceive humans far better than we ever imagined. #aisafety
Meta's new teen safety rules might prevent the next George Floyd video from being posted. #meta
Would The Next George Floyd Video Survive Meta’s New Teen Safety Rules?
Earlier this year, one of the smartest internet rights people around, Heather Burns, suggested the “Darnella Test” regarding any kind of “kid safety” rule online. It’s…
www.techdirt.com
September 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Meta's new teen safety rules might prevent the next George Floyd video from being posted. #meta
Monday, September 7, 2026
Daily Dissent #29
Daily Dissent #29
Tesla’s Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It’s Already Under Investigation
The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab, which lacks a steering wheel and pedals, meets vehicle safety standards.
www.wired.com
September 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Monday, September 7, 2026
Daily Dissent #29
Daily Dissent #29
Right to repair laws are booming across the US, but they're toothless without any real enforcement. #righttorepair
‘Right To Repair’ State Laws Continue To Surge, But Enforcement Remains Nonexistent
There’s still a massive effort afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you…
www.techdirt.com
September 5, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Right to repair laws are booming across the US, but they're toothless without any real enforcement. #righttorepair
NVIDIA is basically paying its customers to buy its chips in a giant circular financing scheme. #nvidia
Premium: The Hater's Guide To Circular Financing (Part One)
[NVIDIA Company Meeting, the present day, YMCA playing]
JENSEN HUANG: We love NVIDIA, don’t we folks? We’re the biggest, most-beautiful semiconductor company, we make the biggest, hottest GPUs for Clammy Sammy and Wario Amodei’s huge, beautiful AI labs, but they can’t afford them because they’
www.wheresyoured.at
September 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
NVIDIA is basically paying its customers to buy its chips in a giant circular financing scheme. #nvidia
Trying to get your own data from companies is a total nightmare. #dataprivacy
I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.
www.wired.com
September 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Trying to get your own data from companies is a total nightmare. #dataprivacy
Meta's 'pervert glasses' are fueling a wider revolt against Big Tech surveillance. #bigtech
The revolt against Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ is part of a growing storm
AI. Data centers. Flock cameras. Now Meta’s “pervert” glasses. Breaking down the latest stage of a mass resistance to big tech with Chris Gilliard, privacy scholar and author of Luxury Surveillance.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Meta's 'pervert glasses' are fueling a wider revolt against Big Tech surveillance. #bigtech
A top Meta exec quit her job after seeing AI agents replace entire product teams with just a few people. #aiagents
How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it
www.platformer.news
September 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
A top Meta exec quit her job after seeing AI agents replace entire product teams with just a few people. #aiagents