The conservative-tech alliance is coming to Canada
Shopify executives want to emulate the right-wing project of their Silicon Valley peers
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Roundup: The system is crashing
Read to the end for a surprising tirade against Elon Musk
Dismissing critics has “real and dangerous” consequences
Casey Newton’s diatribe against AI skeptics illustrates a broader issue in tech journalism
Roundup: The US’s war on Chinese tech has consequences
Read to the end for a little song about a certain health insurance story
Elon Musk is sending DOGE after high-speed rail
Donald Trump’s “first buddy” is using his position to revive personal vendettas
Why we must reclaim digital sovereignty
A new white paper envisions a radically different technological future
Roundup: What’s going on in Romania?
Read to the end for the revival of Elon Musk’s war on California high-speed rail
Roundup: The return of self-driving hype
Read to the end for a graph of Elon Musk’s real-time mental decline
Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy
Brands know Musk has influence with Donald Trump and want to make sure he doesn’t use it against them
Roundup: Has Bluesky’s moment arrived?
Read to the end for another Cybertruck fail
What we get wrong about the supposed threat of Chinese EVs
Recent comments by Ford CEO Jim Farley give a more honest picture of why Chinese EV makers are leading
Roundup: Some fiction after a grim week
Read to the end for a fascinating video a certain orange guy’s social media use
Elon Musk
Shame on the Elon enablers
Media and politicians created a monster and lost control of him
Labor
How Amazon threatens Canada’s post office
Amazon’s low-wage, non-union model is a threat to key public institutions and their unionized workers
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Targeting platforms’ addictive design
Read to the end for a fun jab at Mark Zuckerberg’s Halloween costume
Artificial Intelligence
Geoffrey Hinton’s misguided views on AI
He may have made important contributions to artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean he knows where it’s going
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Elon Musk’s Russian connection
Read to the end for another AI CEO making ridiculous energy demands
Media
Gates-washing the future
A new Netflix series continues the effort to launder Bill Gates’ reputation
Weekly roundup
Roundup: What will happen to Elon Musk after the election?
Read to the end for a cool guide for new Bluesky users
Environment
Silicon Valley is sacrificing the climate for AI
Eric Schmidt is the latest tech executive to claim AI must be built regardless of the climate cost
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Elon Musk’s dream of robot slaves isn’t coming soon
Read to the end for a new crypto-libertarian conspiracy theory
Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s Cybercab recycles a decade of broken promises
Bold promises may no longer be enough for an extremist CEO who can’t deliver
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Uber is cutting workers’ wages globally
Read to the end for one of the worst photos of Elon Musk I’ve ever seen
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction
Meta’s platforms are still causing harm, but the CEO has convinced the media to look at the future instead of the present