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Reds race to save Reds in Cuba 2026-03-14 10:32 Renew America By Cliff Kincaid March 13, 2026 With the Iranian regime in tatters and the boy Ayatollah struggling to survive another bombing, the communists are hoping to move on and save Communist Cuba from the ultimate fate. Two “former” communist front groups, the U. …
Africa’s data, the new sovereignty frontier 2026-03-13 15:50 Mail & Guardian Guard jealously: Africa must move at pace with other nations seeking to protect data as a strategic asset. Photo: Dragos Condrea The concept of sovereignty has evolved over the centuries, originating from the Latin roots ‘super’, meaning ‘above’ and …
Opinion | The Bunker Paradox: When National Security Becomes A Master Key To Your Private Life 2026-03-13 04:43 News18 Last Updated:March 12, 2026, 23:09 IST The infrastructure hardening that protects data from kinetic attack may simultaneously expose it to a subtler, more permanent threat – absorption into the national security state Rapid Read Summarized by AI. + In my …
FBI queries of Americans’ data under FISA 702 rose 35% in 2025 2026-03-13 00:42 Nextgov FBI searches of U.S. person data collected using a controversial spying authority rose some 35% in 2025, according to an FBI letter to Congress that was obtained by Nextgov/FCW. The bureau’s searches of Americans’ data, collected under Section 702 of …
MSM could be a war casualty 2026-03-13 00:00 The Hindu Tucker Carlson’s interviews with Vladimir Putin in February 2024 (in picture) and with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in July 2025 — conducted in the immediate aftermath of the first Israel-Iran war — made alternative perspectives available to the …
Rashida Tlaib introduces legislation to defend people who expose government corruption 2026-03-12 23:16 Detroit Metro Times - Michigan During the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg — a peace activist from Michigan who had worked as an analyst in the U.S. Department of Defense — became so disillusioned with the quagmire that he leaked a critical top-secret report dubbed the “Pentagon Papers” to …
Named for Daniel Ellsberg, Tlaib Proposal Would Protect Whistleblowers and Journalists 2026-03-12 22:38 Common Dreams Warning that the Espionage Act has been used to "persecute and criminalize" dissenters, journalists, and whistleblowers numerous times since it was passed into law, US Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Thursday introduced the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom …
How this Air Force veteran allegedly spied for Iran 2026-03-12 21:51 We Are The Mighty Get We Are The Mighty’s Weekly Newsletter Military culture and entertainment direct to your inbox with zero chance of a ‘Reply All’ incident Monica Witt stepped off a plane in Tehran in late August 2013 and began a new life. No matter how hard the United …
Breaking: Trump threatens Iran's national team in FIFA World Cup, "for their own life" 2026-03-12 18:50 Legit News President Donald Trump of the United States has said he did not believe it is "appropriate" for the Iranian national football team to participate in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which would be co-hosted by the US, citing safety concerns, while the …
Anthropic doesn’t trust the Pentagon, and neither should you 2026-03-12 15:30 The Verge Today we’re talking about the messy, fast-moving situation at Anthropic, the maker of Claude that now finds itself in a very ugly legal battle with the Pentagon. The back-and-forth is complicated, but as of a few days ago, the Pentagon had deemed Anthropic …
OpenAI and Google employees file Amicus brief in support of Anthropic; say: We are engineers, researchers, scientists employed at American AI labs who ... 2026-03-10 19:39 The Times of India Several employees of OpenAI and Google, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, have filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government. Amicus briefs are legal filings submitted by parties that are not …
The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs 2026-03-10 17:31 MIT Technology Review Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s collection of bulk metadata from the phones of Americans, the US is still navigating a gap between what ordinary people think and what the law allows …
Zcash Outpaces Bitcoin Gains as Key Development Team Raises $25 Million 2026-03-10 03:45 Decrypt Privacy coin Zcash is one of the biggest crypto gainers over the past day, rising 7% and outpacing Bitcoin’s own rebound as a key team of core developers just raised a Series A round of funding for their fresh venture. Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) …
Tony Gilroy on Andor, the Force, and Authoritarianism 2026-03-08 19:43 Reason Magazine The fictional Star Wars universe is full of terrifying and powerful villains, from planet-destroying superweapons to black-cloaked space wizards wielding magic swords. In Andor, that well-trod story of the evil Galactic Empire becomes something even more …
OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us 2026-03-08 13:12 The Intercept OpenAI claims it has accomplished what Anthropic couldn’t: securing a Pentagon contract that won’t cross professed red lines against dragnet domestic spying and the use of artificial intelligence to order lethal military strikes. Just don’t expect any …
Anthropic collides with the Pentagon over AI safety — here's everything you need to know 2026-03-08 05:59 LiveScience Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Live Science Get the Live Science Newsletter Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to …
'Cover-Up': A reporter against the impunity of power and the horror of war 2026-03-06 15:58 El País Seymour M. Hersh, 88, greets you with the phrase “it’s worse than you think” on his Substack blog, where he has more than 230,000 followers. He is not an opinion writer. He is an investigative journalist who has spent six decades exposing government abuses …
Inside the Cypriot campaign to kick out British bases 2026-03-06 10:00 Declassified UK After a drone hit a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus on Sunday night, the debate in Britain has centred on why the airfield was not better protected. But in Cyprus, anger is focused on why Britain still has military bases there at all. “We got no sleep last …
Tulsi Gabbard’s conflict of interest — and hypocrisy 2026-03-06 06:32 Salon Tulsi Gabbard used to champion whistleblowers. As a member of Congress, she believed leaks were a necessary tool in revealing illegal actions taken by the government, and took principled, controversial stands opposing the prosecution of Julian Assange and …
A right good scandal 2026-03-04 05:34 Prospect At the start of June 2013, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) appeared to be dead in the water. It was almost 18 months since the then European commissioner for justice, Viviane Reding, had originally presented the draft GDPR …
OpenAI’s Pentagon Pact Ignites an AI Power Struggle 2026-03-03 21:47 Sri Lanka Guardian When OpenAI announced on February 28 that it had secured a deal allowing the US military to deploy its technologies in classified settings, the timing was as striking as the terms. The agreement came as the Pentagon pushed forward with a newly politicized …
Why We Misunderstand the Chinese Internet 2026-03-03 11:14 The Nation Books & the Arts / March 3, 2026 Journalist Yi-Ling Liu’s The Wall Dancers traces how the Internet affected daily life in China, showing how similar this corner of the Web is to the one experienced in the West. Ad Policy An Internet cafe in Beijing …
OpenAI updates Department of War deal after backlash 2026-03-03 09:47 Mashable OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company rushed its recent deal with the U.S. Department of War (DOW), admitting that it appeared "opportunistic and sloppy." In an internal memo he subsequently shared on X, Altman stated that OpenAI is now amending …
Who Plays Pete Calvin On The Yellowstone Spin-Off Marshals 2026-03-03 02:45 /FILM This article contains spoilers for "Marshals" season 1, episode 1 – "Piya Wiconi." "Marshals" is simultaneously the most logical and most unexpected spin-off idea for "Yellowstone." On one hand, a marriage between a …
Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine” 2026-03-02 22:59 Futurism Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech OpenAI just handed one of its biggest rivals a massive PR victory, in a blunder that even CEO Sam Altman admitted had optics that “don’t look good.” On …
Poitras and Obenhaus honor Hersh in “Cover-Up” 2026-03-02 22:43 High Plains Reader - North Dakota Cinema | March 2nd, 2026 By Greg Carlson The great documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras had to work diligently to convince Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh to be the subject of one of her films. Most accounts and reviews of “Cover-Up,” the …
Tulsi Gabbard Should Resign 2026-03-02 17:29 The American Conservative - Washington D.C. It’s an old adage that politics is the art of compromise, of wheeling and dealing between disparate views to advance your own. That truism has always made politics a difficult fit for ideologues seeking to wield substantial power. And everyone in politics …
National Book Tour for Cindy Cohn’s Memoir, ‘Privacy’s Defender’ 2026-03-02 16:15 Electronic Frontier Foundation SAN FRANCISCO – Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn will launch her memoir, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press, March 10), with events in San Francisco and Berkeley before embarking on …
How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance 2026-03-02 15:48 The Verge On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that his own company had successfully negotiated new terms with the Pentagon. The US government had just moved to blacklist …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responds to deal with Department of War 2026-03-02 12:11 Mashable OpenAI has entered a deal with the U.S. Department of War (DOW), providing its AI tools for military use in "classified environments." Announcing the partnership on Saturday, the ChatGPT developer claims it includes guardrails prohibiting the use …
8 Fintech Events to Attend in Singapore in 2026 2026-03-02 08:48 Fintech News Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your Inbox Singapore has emerged as a prominent fintech hub in Southeast Asia, capitalizing on its effective regulatory framework, robust infrastructure, and its large pool of highly …
‘War on terror’, US invasion of Iraq and now, Iran: The ultimate collapse of the collective conscience 2026-03-02 05:59 The Indian Express I left the United States, the country of my birth, more than 10 years ago, in 2013. At that time, the country was terrorising the northwest frontier of Pakistan with repeated and deadly drone strikes — “Hellfire” missiles fired from “Predator” aircraft …
Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance | Seth Stern, Lauren Harper and Bobby Block 2026-03-01 14:56 The Guardian “Florida man seeks to create a state counterintelligence unit and claim sweeping surveillance powers over people whose ‘views’ or ‘opinions’ he dislikes.” It’s not nearly as amusing as the usual “Florida man” headline, and it may lead to a blueprint for …
MY TAKE: The Pentagon punished Anthropic for red lines it accepted from OpenAI hours later 2026-02-28 21:03 The Last Watchdog By Byron V. Acohido KINGSTON, Wash. — On Friday afternoon, President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic’s AI technology. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed by designating the company a “supply-chain risk to national security,” …
Citing AI, Jack Dorsey Fired 40% of His Staff and Block Stock Popped. This Is Fine. 2026-02-28 12:04 Jezebel Former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey fired 4,000 people yesterday—40% of Block’s workforce—citing a supposed AI revolution that is just around the corner. “we’re not making this decision because we’re in trouble. our business is strong,” wrote the CEO in …
Marty Baron talks Trump, 'faint-hearted' media owners at IU 2026-02-28 11:57 Indianapolis Star - Indiana Feb. 28, 2026, 5:05 a.m. ET In front of the next generation of student journalists at Indiana University, renowned newspaper editor Marty Baron said his fears of encroachment on the press and First Amendment freedoms have been realized — and could become …
Trump Seeks to Extend Domestic Spying Powers He Once Condemned 2026-02-28 05:38 The American Conservative - Washington D.C. In an April 10, 2024 post on Truth Social, then-candidate for president Trump urged Republicans in Congress to “KILL FISA,” referring to the U.S. law establishing procedures for foreign surveillance. “IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY …
VPNs Can’t Make You Anonymous Online. Don’t Be Fooled by Anyone Who Says They Can 2026-02-27 16:06 CNET Whenever we go online, our activity is tracked, monitored, recorded and analyzed, while the associated data is shared, bought, traded and sold. The digital crumbs we leave in our online footsteps are abundant, and maintaining any semblance of privacy on …
Wyden to block confirmation for NSA director, citing lack of experience 2026-02-26 22:43 Nextgov Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is moving to halt Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd’s confirmation to run U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, arguing that the nominee lacks the relevant credentials required for the post. Rudd currently serves as deputy …
It's the end of personal privacy. 'There's nowhere to hide anymore' 2026-02-26 12:14 Cochrane Times Breadcrumb Trail Links News New breaches of personal data seem to occur daily. Still, many Canadians aren't yet ready to accept a world where others control all our secrets A young woman stands out from a crowd. Photo by iStock/Getty Images By the …
Democracy Through Technology: Internet Access in Rio’s Favelas 2026-02-26 05:46 Rio On Watch Clique aqui para Português This article introduces a series by guest researcher Jeffrey Omari,* on ICTs in Rio’s favelas. A resident of a North Zone favela told a story of how his landlord gave him notice to vacate his apartment and demanded he move out …
Opinion | Tale Of Two Epsteins, Ghislaine Maxwell And 9/11 2026-02-25 17:18 News18 Last Updated:February 25, 2026, 21:14 IST Why did Edward Epstein, an investigative journalist, want Ghislaine Maxwell, whose family has deep US and Israeli intelligence and security ties, on board a 9/11 Shadow Commission? The Epstein Files …
U.S. senators promote digital freedom for Iran while backing surveillance at home 2026-02-25 00:57 Natural News U.S. senators promote digital freedom for Iran while backing surveillance at home A bipartisan group of senators, including Lindsey Graham, James Lankford, Jacky Rosen and Cory Booker, is backing federal funding to help Iranians bypass government …
Indiana won a title and lost its soul | Will Bunch Newsletter 2026-02-24 22:45 The Philadelphia Inquirer - Pennsylvania Does Donald Trump have to ruin everything? The answer is obviously yes, but this one was heartbreaking. Sunday’s overtime thriller over Canada, which gave U.S. men’s hockey its first gold medal since this senior citizen was a college junior, was a howl of …
The TAC Interview: John Kiriakou on Epstein, Propaganda, and Heroin 2026-02-24 06:20 The American Conservative - Washington D.C. Nearly two decades after he exposed the CIA’s secret torture program—and paid for it with a prison sentence—the former intelligence officer John Kiriakou has suddenly attracted massive viral engagement on social media platforms. He spoke with The American …
From Cold War interceptors to Ukraine: how Russia came to park spy satellites next to the West’s most sensitive tech in orbit 2026-02-23 09:38 Meduza Two Russian satellites have spent years quietly maneuvering along Earth’s geostationary belt — the ring of orbits 36,000 kilometers (roughly 22,370 miles) above the equator, where satellites appear stationary relative to the planet. There, they park …
World View: Assange: Free at last, but... 2026-02-23 09:01 Zimbabwe Independent Julian Assange JULIAN Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is a free man at last after spending almost all of the past 14 years in jail or other forms of confinement. He has just arrived home in Australia to be greeted by his family, including two young sons …
What Wegmans’ surveillance reveals about the future of privacy in America 2026-02-23 00:58 The Sentinel Newspapers - Maryland As reported by Forbes, a majority of modern digital surveillance, often associated with the “Big Brother” effect of authoritarian regimes, is outsourced to private companies. Unlike Europe, the United States lacks comprehensive federal laws regulating …
Seymour Hersh: A reporter's reporter 2026-02-22 15:00 CBS News Asked what he loved about being a reporter, Seymour Hersh replied, "The same thing you love about it. Are you kidding? Is there anything more fun than being on air with a good story?" Seymour Hersh is a good story. For six decades, Hersh's …
‘Cover-Up’ on Netflix explores the legacy of fearless reporter Seymour Hersh 2026-02-22 07:31 Mint In one of the early scenes in Cover-Up, a documentary on Seymour M. Hersh’s life and work, the iconic investigative journalist looks straight at the camera, or rather at the filmmakers, Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, behind it, and utters a single …