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On-Device AI Chips Are Silently Recording Everything You Do

17 Sep 2026 10 minute read 19 comments Learn With Hatty $0.25

For years, cybersecurity researchers, privacy advocates, and everyday computer users sounded the alarm about the dangers of cloud-based artificial intelligence. We were told that every time you type a prompt into an online chatbot, upload a sensitive...

Your Data Built Silicon Valley

1 Sep 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Learn With Hatty $0.19

Silicon Valley loves nothing more than the myth of the brilliant founder working out of a dusty suburban garage. We have been sold that fairy tale for decades in books, documentaries, and glossy magazine profiles. The story always follows the same pr...

Why Big Tech is Buying Up Nuclear Power Plants

20 May 2026 4 minute read 10 comments Learn With Hatty $0.45

We have all been sold a beautiful, ethereal lie about the cloud. For years, big tech marketed the digital world as a weightless, frictionless dimension. A clean, white void where your photos, essays, and code repositories float effortlessly in the et...

Alexa and the 2024 American Elections

8 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment FeFeInformation $0.01

Last Tuesday September 3, 2024 social media were flooded with videos of an alleged political bias of the Amazon branded vocal assistant ‘Alexa’. When people from all over the U.S. asked the device two same questions but with a different subject “Why...

Ask and thou shall be answereth

12 Nov 2023 3 minute read 6 comments Kovichni $0.41

It was just two days ago I was actually naive enough to wonder why tech institutions like Google, Microsoft etc which we call ''big tech'' are allowed to get away with hosting scamming/phishing apps which so many crypto users fell victim to on their...

The Oh-MEGA Cometh: How AI ends the world (Part 1)

3 Sep 2023 4 minute read 2 comments Tigerius $0.12

Earlier this week I was chatting about the inevitable advent of AI and the clear dangers it poses with friends on Torum (https://www.torum.com/post/64f10c2eb92110189741fa7b). Many people cannot fathom AI breaking loose from human control and instinct...

Argentinian, Kenyan and Other Agencies Investigate WorldCoin's Use of Biometrics and Personal Data

22 Aug 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark $1.26

On the 27th of July, the most excellent Cryptogod brought us news of WorldCoin (the cryptocurrency project using biometric iris/retina scanners to determine humanity), in his post titled Vitalik Buterin Concerned over WorldCoin. In the course of the...

Google and friends, a handful of centralised Big Tech companies, Rickrolled us all.

22 Dec 2022 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark $0.70

I could be mistaken, but I think that if you go back far enough with the wayback machine's Web archive, you can probably find Google advertising it was never going to give you ads. (I'd have to check to be sure, of course). Now, it harvests your data...

Big Tech or Crypto - Experiment. (#8)

2 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Crypto Is Beautiful $0.04

The eighth month of my experiment Details here - https://www.publish0x.com/crypto-is-beautiful/big-tech-or-crypto-experiment-which-portfolio-will-yield-hig-xwwmjoq Investments On July 1, stocks and tokens cost: Big Tech portfolio Twitter $37.39Google...

BIG TECH or CRYPTO - EXPERIMENT. Which portfolio will yield higher returns? (#3)

27 Feb 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Crypto Is Beautiful $0.67

Who will win crypto or Big Tech? The third month of my experiment. Details here: https://www.publish0x.com/crypto-is-beautiful/big-tech-or-crypto-experiment-which-portfolio-will-yield-hig-xwwmjoq Investments On February 1, stocks and tokens cost: Bi...