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Lydia Mugambe, who is currently on trial at Oxford Crown Court, denies the four charges against her.

Of this special de luxe Independence edition of the centenary issue of the writings of Thomas Paine there have been printed five hundred numbered copies....

Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.

A 501(c)(3) dedicated to archiving and publishing hacked and leaked data.

Where I categorise 76 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks and show how they align with the authoritarian playbook

Professor Christina Pagel of University College London has mapped the actions of the Trump administration’s first few weeks into a Venn diagram (above) with “five broad domains that correspond to features of proto-authoritarian states”

A startup called Graze, which lets you build your own feeds for the Bluesky social network, has caught investors' attention. In addition to offering tools

Planes were falling from the sky and the sky itself was falling but didn’t the driveway still need shoveling? Salt for the icy steps. The kitchen sink full once again. And every day a new reminder that crying can get you anything you want in the world if it’

The May 24, 2024, episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

Twenty-fifth in the News Commons series Southern California has two seasons: Fire and Rain. Rain didn’t begin this year until a few days after Fire ended apocalyptically, incinerating much of…

Some time in the coming months, tickets will go on sale for the fall production of Waiting for Godot on Broadway — a new production starring Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves — and I swear to you right now, I am already ready to hit the “buy” button. I first read Samuel

Some things I learned from Allison Sheridan's interview of Jason Snell.

Everything matters until it doesn't.

In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national security are profound. First, it was reported that people associated with the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed the US Treasury computer system, giving them the ability to collect data on and potentially control the department’s roughly ...

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to reform is upending government operations. Critical functions have been halted, tens of thousands of federal staffers are being encouraged to resign, and congressional mandates are being disregarded. The next phase: The Department of Government Efficiency reportedly wants to use AI to cut costs. According to The Washington Post, Musk’s group has started to run sensitive data from government systems through AI programs to analyze spending and determine what could be pruned. This may lead to the elimination of human jobs in favor of automation. As one government official who has been tracking Musk’s DOGE team told the...

There's no 'common ground' with the people killing us

Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African–born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.

Jessica Valenti on why there’s no room for compromise or middle ground on abortion rights. Anyone still holding out hope for a ‘compromise’ on abortion rights needs to give it up. Right now. Over the past few days, a Louisiana mother w

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.

Any statement regarding the potential benefits and/or hazards of AI tends to be automatically very divisive and controversial as the world tries to figure out what the technology means to them, and…

AI coding assistants are React evangelists.

How Governments Quietly Tax Their Own People Under the Guise of Trade War Governments love a good story. One of their favourites is the tale of the tariff as a weapon of economic defence, a noble measure to protect domestic industries, save jobs, and fortify national strength. It’s a

The president’s plan for reciprocal tariffs sounds good in theory. But there was a reason the United States abandoned the approach a century ago. The gains would be few and the costs enormous.

Discussion of ways in which I am changing course in my publishing ventures.

At this point it is safe to say that software engineers are not in any immediate danger of being replaced by AI. So why do people keep trying to do just that?