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How I became a tech critic
Paris Marx’s journey from tech optimist to committed Luddite
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Weekly roundup
Roundup: Apple Car is (finally) dead
Read to the end for a more evidence of an access journalist’s close ties to tech CEOs
Book review
Kara Swisher’s Reality Distortion Field
In “Burn Book,” the longtime tech journalist tries to rewrite her story for the post-techlash era
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Some tidbits about New Zealand
Read to the end for OpenAI saying the quiet part out loud
Interview
How artists are fighting generative AI
An interview with Karla Ortiz on how AI image generators are upending the careers of artists
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Peter Thiel wants a new frontier
Read to the end for a bad NBA AI reveal
Video Games
Microsoft’s Xbox dilemma
A new strategy is angering fans as Xbox loses the console war and Game Pass fails to take off
Uber
The high cost of Uber’s small profit
Workers and customers get squeezed so investors can make off like bandits
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Feeding the world to computers
Read to the end for a photo of the only kind of Waymo vehicle I approve of
Artificial Intelligence
AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.
Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.
Interview
How to stop a data center
An interview with Sebastián Lehuedé about a community in Chile that blocked Google
Weekly roundup
Roundup: The trouble facing Apple
Read to the end for a meme about Vision Pro and the metaverse