This Iranian music school was a haven for children. After an airstrike ‘there is nothing left’

Classical Persian music used to fill the rooms of the Honyak Music School in Tehran. Now, it has all been “wiped out.”

The EU Killed Voluntary CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying To Compel It. Both Cause Problems.

Last week, the European Parliament voted to let a temporary exemption lapse that had allowed tech companies to scan their services for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without running afoul of st…

‘Epstein would find unsupported children and tell them: I’ll save you’

At the Laugharne Weekend, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, one of four journalists in the courtroom daily for Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, talked to Robin Ince about abuse, justice and the ‘rape myths’ that silence survivors

The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings

The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country too corrupt to have functioning regulators.

Europe’s digital laws are not bargaining chips - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

In reaction to the recent plan to “open a formal dialogue” with the US government on EU tech rules, EDRi and other civil society organisations urge the Commission to halt this plan that risks giving Big Tech a back door to weaken the EU digital rulebook and its enforcement.

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever

Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’t

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In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.

A letter to John Ternus – Marco.org

Mouthwords | everything changes

Talk with your face.

Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?

The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech