Google built a floating Gemini bubble to colonize your attention
Google is selling us a "convenience" that looks a lot like a tether.
By Josie Calloway ·
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Google's V8 engine flaws prove we live in a fragile monoculture
When a fence post rots at the base, you don’t notice it until the wind hits just right and the whole line goes down. That’s how these "zero-day" flaws work.
By Ruth Behrens ·
Trump's 'Lake America' is an act of aggression against Canada
When a superpower decides to rename a piece of its neighbor’s geography, it isn't an exercise in cartography; it is an act of aggression.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Judge Brinkema spares Google, making US antitrust a paper tiger
The United States Department of Justice has a habit of mistaking a ceasefire for a victory.
By Emilio Quesada ·
OpenAI and Anthropic admit failure; Washington must fund defenses
The open letter signed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and a hundred other entities is less a warning about the future of cyber warfare than an admission of present-day institutional failure.
By Emilio Quesada ·
Nvidia's engine runs on too few hands: Amazon and Google dependency
The numbers coming out of Nvidia are staggering—$92 billion expected revenue for the quarter, according to Euronews’ analysis.
By Grant Colby ·
State anxiety blames TikTok for A66 crash instead of policing failures
The headlines are predictably dramatic: seven people dead in an A66 crash; twelve arrests following deadly "joyrides"; and now, the Prime Minister calling a social media trend…
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
AI Boom's True Cost: Why Hardware Spending Trumps Intelligence
The next phase of tech growth suggests market power will shift from differentiated products to commoditized infrastructure and scale.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Pixel 11 ads show a mysterious screen-equipped tracker that's not Pixel Watch 5 or Fitbit Air [Gallery]
The biggest story in consumer electronics is never about the screen; it’s always about the signal. Google thinks we don't notice that.
By Imani Sutton ·
Meta vs Google AI Overviews show S&P 500 consolidation power
The market never ceases its theatrical dramas.
By Elena Rossi ·
Musk’s AI revenue race eclipses Starlink; sovereignty is the real cost
The sheer scale of it is dizzying, isn’t it? $26.5 trillion for AI—a number so vast it makes the Atlantic feel manageable.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Google’s free streaming service now lets you pick shows and movies to watch
The narrative circulating across technology blogs—from aivanet.com to droid-life.com—is one of consumer liberation: Google TV Freeplay has expanded its free, ad-supported…
By Emilio Quesada ·
Hachette and Cengage sue Google over Gemini's stolen training data
The whole damn thing smells like sweatshop labor to me. It’s the same story—the promise of infinite scalability built on unpaid, uncredited work.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Google’s Pixel 11 launch relies on Trevor Noah spectacle, not specs
The perennial cycle of technological hype always exhausts me. Every year, we are promised a quantum leap—a revolution powered by some arcane new chipset or RGB LED strip.
By Bram de Vries ·
Amazon traps data in its garden; Maxine Tagay calls it 'privacy'
I spent two decades reporting on borders, where every single piece of paper—a visa stamp, a border crossing log, a labor contract—carries weight.
By Alma Cordero ·
Section 230 fails; Meta, Google face lawsuits in courts and France
The fact that thousands of lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snapchat can finally proceed is less a victory for justice than it is an overdue clearing of debris.
By Maya Ellison ·