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Roundup: The system is crashing

Dismissing critics has “real and dangerous” consequences

Roundup: The US’s war on Chinese tech has consequences

Elon Musk is sending DOGE after high-speed rail

Why we must reclaim digital sovereignty

Roundup: What’s going on in Romania?

Roundup: The return of self-driving hype

Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy

Roundup: Has Bluesky’s moment arrived?

What we get wrong about the supposed threat of Chinese EVs

Roundup: Some fiction after a grim week

Shame on the Elon enablers

How Amazon threatens Canada’s post office

Roundup: Targeting platforms’ addictive design

Geoffrey Hinton’s misguided views on AI

Roundup: Elon Musk’s Russian connection

Gates-washing the future

Roundup: What will happen to Elon Musk after the election?

Silicon Valley is sacrificing the climate for AI

Roundup: Elon Musk’s dream of robot slaves isn’t coming soon

Elon Musk’s Cybercab recycles a decade of broken promises

Roundup: Uber is cutting workers’ wages globally

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction

Roundup: Is the tech antitrust era waning?

Roundup: Elon Musk caves to Brazil’s Supreme Court

Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital age

Roundup: The price of an iPhone

Smartphone innovation is dead, and that’s fine

Roundup: Will generative AI have many long-term benefits?

Pavel Durov and Elon Musk are not free speech champions

A critical tech reading list for late 2024

Roundup: What the OpenAI funding round reveals about tech

Zuckerberg wants to control the next platform—no matter what it is

Roundup: Who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter?

Sam Altman doesn’t care about you

Roundup: Eric Schmidt says the quiet part out loud

What comes after the AI crash?

Roundup: Don't buy the "Zuckessance"

The Google monopoly ruling won’t save the internet

Roundup: How tech is trying to shape the Kamala Harris agenda

Peter Thiel’s influence over a network of Lord of the Rings-inspired companies

Roundup: Elon Musk is a terrible person

Elon Musk doesn't care about kids. He cares about demographics.

Roundup: NYT's SpaceX stenography

Silicon Valley’s dangerous plan for a second Trump term

Roundup: Elon Musk endorses Donald Trump

Roundup: The data workers whose labor powers AI

Generative AI is a climate disaster

Roundup: Uber's war on workers' rights continues

Amazon's disastrous plan to emulate Temu

Roundup: OpenAI says some artistic jobs shouldn’t exist

Roundup: Elon gets the green light to loot Tesla

Silicon Valley’s unlikely ally to defend generative AI

Apple hopes AI will make you buy a new iPhone

Roundup: Is this peak AI hype?

Roundup: Elon Musk’s naive plan to end global water shortages

Kara Swisher's story about Sam Altman is falling apart

Roundup: Pronatalists who defend hitting kids

Scarlett Johansson can’t escape tech exploitation

Roundup: Apple wants to hike iPhone prices again

AI hype is over. AI exhaustion is setting in.

Roundup: Apple delivers an insult to life itself

Phil Spencer isn’t your friend

A critical tech reading list for mid-2024

Roundup: How bias can creep into tech coverage

Embrace the splinternet

Roundup: Should we ditch smartphones?

The Vision Pro is a big flop

Hollywood is reviving its war on piracy

Roundup: Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover team

Elon Musk is using Twitter to defend Brazil’s fascists

Roundup: Elon meets Javier

Tesla is in serious trouble

Roundup: How is the media still doing this?

Elon Musk is elevating the global extreme right

Roundup: Sam Bankman-Fraud

What if we never live on Mars?

Roundup: Apple in the DoJ’s crosshairs

Roundup: Smashing Teslas with stone heads

The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power

Why is it so hard to buy a Blu-ray?

Roundup: Tech worker opposition to AI

The digital revolution has failed

How I became a tech critic

Roundup: Apple Car is (finally) dead

Kara Swisher’s Reality Distortion Field

Roundup: Some tidbits about New Zealand

How artists are fighting generative AI

Roundup: Peter Thiel wants a new frontier

Microsoft’s Xbox dilemma

The high cost of Uber’s small profit

Roundup: Feeding the world to computers

AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.

How to stop a data center

Roundup: The trouble facing Apple

Apple's Vision Pro lacks any real vision

Roundup: Can Taylor Swift stop AI-generated abuse?

Tesla's challenges just keep growing

Sam Altman's self-serving vision of the future

Roundup: The Vision Pro PR machine

A critical tech reading list for early 2024

Elon Musk just escalated his war on workers

Roundup: A new year won't halt Elon's fall

Welcome to the new Disconnect

Roundup: Tesla's terrible month