AI data center developers begin suing local jurisdictions behind bans and moratoriums — claims range from officials exceeding authority to violations of due process and equal protection laws
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Big Tech is now targeting Native American land for data centers
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Fines doubled as teens outsmart Australia's world-first social media ban
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The Swedish-based “W” platform is the latest in a series of new social media sites vying to replace US Big Tech companies
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Tech Oversight Report: Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok's top priority
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Denmark eyes new law to protect citizens from AI deepfakes – if enacted, Danes would get the copyright over their own likeness
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Amazon's Prime Day deals could actually cost you more
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Cory Doctorow: Tech-like apps can obfuscate what’s really going on, sloshing a coat of complexity over a business that allows its owners to claim that they’re not breaking the law
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Why the internet really wants your ID... (and why now?)
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Meta violated privacy law, Californian jury says in menstrual data fight
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An industry group representing almost all of Denmark's media outlets including broadcasters and newspapers has said it's suing ChatGPT's parent company OpenAI for using its content
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Big tech must stop passing the cost of its spiking energy needs onto the public
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How Big Tech hides its outsourced African workforce
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What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech
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Tech companies apparently do not understand why we dislike AI
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Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims
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Digital apartheid in Gaza: Big Tech must reveal their roles in tech used in human rights abuses
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Tech giants should be made subject to a global tax for their use of people's personal data, according to Norway's Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum
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Big Tech has slashed its office presence in San Francisco by half
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Sweden's public sector has ditched Big Tech in the name of privacy as a major telecom provider unveiled a new secure collaboration hub
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Cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS.
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Big Tech won’t let you leave. Here’s a way out.
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Capitalism is dead. '[Technofeudalism is] something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism and the tyranny of big tech
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Mark Zuckerberg is building a top-secret compound in Hawai'i
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Opinion - journalism needs to lose its dependent relationship with big tech companies
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In Canada’s battle with Big Tech, smaller publishers and independent outlets struggle to survive
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EU ‘gatekeeper’ list has five American and no European companies
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European Union Digital Markets Act aims to allow more competition and let consumers delete preloaded phone apps
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Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on.
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How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—four billionaire techno-oligarchs—are creating an alternate, autocratic reality
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Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
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‘Death Glitch’ looks at what happens after we’ve logged off for good
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'Straight out of the authoritarian playbook': US watchdog sued by Elon Musk's X hits back
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How Big Tech rewrote the USA's first cellphone repair law
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The dirty little secret that could bring down Big Tech
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Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants
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Chinese tech giants are creating a new class of elite workers in Latin America
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US tech workers are paying $75K for leg-lengthening surgery
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What Twitter’s move to shutter offices signals for Big Tech
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US Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out
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Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts
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Big Tech is trying to disarm the US Federal Trade Commission by going after its biggest weapon: Lina Khan
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In leak investigation, tech giants are caught between courts and customers
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US Democrats circulate draft antitrust bills that could reshape Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google
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Florida has passed an unconstitutional law to allow suing and fining social media companies (except ones that also own theme parks) for censoring users or de-platforming politicians
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Supreme Court of the United States Justice Clarence Thomas argues for regulating large internet platforms as common carriers
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EU antitrust czar and Big Tech's fiercest opponent – Margrethe Vestager has become famous for putting up a fight against tech giants
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Wikipedia is finally asking Big Tech to pay up
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Big Tech critic Tim Wu joins Joe Biden administration to work on US competition policy
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How Big Tech helps India target climate activists: Companies such as Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian environmental campaigners
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