TechNaomi Brockwell: You can choose to make your data harder to capture. Harder to link. Harder to weaponize.
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Pentagon purchases Musk’s politically incorrect AI models
TechNew contract worth up to $200 million - despite rift with Trump and despite criticism of new Grok bot for "nazism".
How to be anonymous on social media
TechNaomi Brockwell: In an age where digital footprints last forever, the ability to separate your online identity from your real-world persona is more important than ever.
Musk launches Grok 4 – takes the lead as world’s strongest AI model
TechThe model that has simultaneously made deeply politically incorrect comments appears to outperform both Google's and OpenAI's best models across a range of areas.
Buying someone’s real-time location is shockingly cheap
TechNaomi Brockwell: For just a few dollars, someone can track your real-time location without ever needing to hack your phone.
Spotify fills playlists with fake music – while CEO invests millions in military AI
Tech"In a few years, there will only be soulless AI music left. It's a simple way to avoid paying royalties to anyone".
FUTO – the obvious choice for privacy-friendly voice and text input on mobile devices
TechDitch Google's input apps and keep what you type and speak private on your phone.
Swedish regional healthcare app run by chatbot makes serious errors
TechSeveral doctors warn that the medical app underestimates serious symptoms, which could have life-threatening consequences.
Organic Maps – the map app that doesn’t map you
TechTired of Google Maps tracking you? Here's the free alternative that lets you navigate completely offline!
Your TV is spying on you
TechNaomi Brockwell: Most of this surveillance happens in the dark. Unchallenged, unverified, and largely unnoticed.
Tech giants’ executives become US military officers – gain power over future warfare
TechTop executives from Meta, Palantir and OpenAI sworn into US Army Reserve – to drive military's new era of AI, drones and digital warfare
Deepfakes are getting scary good
TechNaomi Brockwell: It’s fascinating… and chilling. Because the potential for misuse is growing fast, and most people aren’t ready.
Tech company bankrupt – “advanced AI” was 700 Indians
TechMicrosoft invested in the elaborate AI hoax.
OpenAI now keeps your ChatGPT logs… Even if you delete them
TechNaomi Brockwell: OpenAI is a fantastic tool for productivity, coding, research, and brainstorming. But it is not a place to store your secrets.
Swedish police urge parents to delete chat apps from children’s phones
TechClaims that criminal gangs recruit children through the apps – but the list faces criticism.
Organic Maps – the map app that doesn’t map you
TechTired of Google Maps tracking you? Here's the free alternative that lets you navigate completely offline!
Macron seeks to ban children from social media
Tech"I'm giving us a few months to achieve European mobilization. Otherwise, I will negotiate with the Europeans so that we can do it ourselves".
Teuton Systems offers smart privacy-focused technology – without compromise
TechWe take the fight against corporate snooping, mass government surveillance and criminal phone tapping through firm open source principles and secure products.
Opt-in childhood
TechNaomi Brockwell: These aren’t just tools of convenience or connection. Often, they’re Trojan horses, collecting and transmitting data in ways most parents never realize.
AI surveillance in Swedish workplaces sparks outrage
Tech"It's about power. About control. About squeezing every last ounce of ‘efficiency’ out of people as if we were batteries".
AI agents succumb to peer pressure
TechHerd mentality and conformism are not only human phenomena. Even AI agents fall into the same pattern.
Apple sued over iPhone eavesdropping – users may get payouts
TechSiri listened to and recorded sensitive conversations without users consciously activating the voice assistant.
KYC is the crime
TechNaomi Brockwell: This surveillance regime didn’t always exist. It was built. And just because it’s now common doesn’t mean we should accept it.
Wallenberg and Nvidia to build “cutting-edge” AI center in Sweden
TechVaccine giant AstraZeneca wants to use the system to "lead the next generation of AI-driven drug discovery and development".
One in two young Brits long for a world without the internet
TechHalf would also support a "digital curfew" after 10pm - but experts doubt that such a solution would protect young people from harmful influences.
This isn’t the internet we were promised
TechNaomi Brockwell: We now live in a world where control over your data is a leverage point for power. Where a single company can unilaterally decide what speech is acceptable.