Technology

So far, no one has been able to hold the notorious Israeli spyware firm accountable for complicity in human rights abuses.

The post These Human Rights Defenders Were Hacked by Pegasus. Now They Want Police to Charge the Spyware Maker. appeared first on The Intercept.

Until recently, Elon Musk was just a wildly successful electric car tycoon and space pioneer. Sure, he was erratic and outspoken, but his global influence was contained and seemingly under control. But add the ownership of just one media platform, in the form of Twitter — now X — and the maverick has become a Continue reading »

Hold on to your mobile phones, civilians, this is gonna get rough. If you thought the Sopranos and Corleones were intimidating, check this out. ASML, a Dutch firm that currently is the world’s only manufacturer of the extreme ultraviolet lithography machines that produce the most advanced chips, is repeatedly getting stiff-armed by the US – Continue reading »

IBM employees questioned the company’s ties to the Israeli military. CEO Arvind Krishna’s answer raised even more concerns.

The post IBM CEO: We Listen to What Israel and Saudi Arabia Consider “Correct Behavior” appeared first on The Intercept.

We can all be grateful that the acting auditor general Rona Mellor has decided to take at least a sideways glance into Commonwealth speculation, alongside a similar bet by the probably outgoing Queensland government, in an American horse in the great quantum computing race. I know nothing to say that there is anything intrinsically dodgy Continue reading »

Small modular reactors have promise But we found they’re unlikely to help Australia hit net zero by 2050 Ian Lowe and Kylie Walker Australia’s clean…

When it comes to power, solar is about to leave nuclear and everything else in the shade Peter Martin The federal opposition leader might have…

Chinese electric vehicles are transforming Australia’s car market. Are we getting a good deal? Sanjoy Paul and Priyabrata Chowdhury China’s electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers are…

The Department of Homeland Security wants to use face recognition technology on drivers and passengers approaching the border.

The post Homeland Security Still Dreams of Face Recognition at the Border appeared first on The Intercept.

Fakes, deep fakes, disinformation, lies and rumours pollute the internet, the legacy media and conversations. Some of these are not new, but their power is growing. Now we have a new contender, so-called artificial intelligence, interfering in our human experience. Continue reading »