How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy
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How AIPAC and AI Spent Their Money This Midterm Election
Intercept staff take stock of the big spenders this election cycle. The post How AIPAC and AI Spent Their Money This Midterm Election appeared first on The Intercept.
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Crypto giant Binance hit by $6.3bn hack suspected to be largest in history
Two analytics firms have attributed the incident to a North Korean hacking unit called TraderTraitor.
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How video game remakes tap the power of nostalgia
Video games are good at triggering nostalgia, a key reason why classic games keep getting remade.
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Binance Hack Exposes Crypto Risk: Disappearing Money
The theft of at least $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency from the world’s marquee digital-asset exchange shows that however sophisticated the fortifications, high-tech criminals are still finding a way in.
Legal loopholes and weak enforcement leave India’s exotic pet trade hard to police
Rising disposable incomes, social media algorithms, and pop culture influences have led to a surge in demand for exotic pets in India, reports Mongabay India’s Arathi Menon. A recent report by the Humane World for Animals (HWA) valued…
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Largest woodland bat survey a 'nice story of AI for good'
Some of Britain's rarest and most threatened bats have been recorded in the south-west of England.
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Chris Hedges: A People Israel Can’t Erase
In Requiem for Gaza, Chris Hedges and cartoonist Joe Sacco set out to preserve what Israel threatens to obliterate: the voices and experiences of Palestinians themselves. By Joshua Scheer ScheerPost Genocide seeks to destroy more than…
Crypto industry suffers 'largest bank heist in human history'
Cryptocurrency worth more than $6.3bn (£4.7bn) has been stolen from a major exchange - with one industry insider telling Sky News it is "the largest bank heist in human history".
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Gina Hinojosa Flips Off Corporate Democrats
The surging Texas gubernatorial candidate is explicitly campaigning against Corporate Democrats’ old formula and its useless labels.
In Suriname’s Amazon, the Wayana community struggling to keep gold miners at bay
KAWEMHAKAN, Suriname — Beneath thousands of square kilometers of rainforest here lie vast deposits of gold and other minerals. Around a million ounces are extracted legally every year, but much more remains buried throughout the Amazon. In…
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Brazil’s victory for the planet and democracy: seven lessons from Lula’s win
The trouncing of the far right provides a playbook for social and environmental movements in other countries facing elections, including the US, Spain and France Thank you, Brazil, for demonstrating how the far right can be trounced while…
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The Debt-Driven AI Bubble
AI data centers are unpopular for good reason, writes Alexis Goldstein. They are also a financial crisis in slow motion. By Alexis Goldstein Truthout AI data centers are unpopular for good reason: they drive up utility costs for…
How the Far-Right Uses Climate Disasters to Build Political Power
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World is critical reading for anyone seeking to understand and push back against the far-right coalitions wielding considerable state and corporate power around…
THE LEVER CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
Prediction Markets Are Shaping Elections — And Getting Them Wrong
Do Kalshi’s odds favor the establishment?
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Tech Tips for Parents this Digital Parenting Week
In today’s digital world, the internet is an essential resource for young people to access information, explore community, and find themselves. But we know that this often comes alongside fears of experiencing online harms like doxxing…
Reps. Casar, Waters Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech, Commit to Protecting American People Instead
Today, Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Chair Rep. Greg Casar (TX-35) and House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43) co-led the introduction of a resolution warning of the economic risks posed by an…
Between revered and hunted: The journey of human-otter coexistence in the Amazon
On a warm, humid morning, along the Içana River in Brazil’s upper Rio Negro Basin, researchers saw a group of Baniwa men heading to the river to check the fishing traps they left in shallow, fast-moving waters. Slightly further downstream…
China’s record-breaking exports of clean tech are making a big dent in emissions, report says
BANGKOK (AP) — China is exporting a record amount of clean energy technology and that is making a dent in global emissions. Interest in renewables has surged due to the energy crisis from the Iran war. A report released Thursday shows that…
Is There Life After AI? Cory Doctorow Thinks So.
Cory Doctorow talks to us about the internet, whether machines are conscious, why copyright maximalism won’t save us from ChatGPT, and why workers still have a chance to shape what comes next.
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Economist Dean Baker explains why AI Bubble is starting to POP! And why we might pay for it…
As mounting debt and questionable returns raise fears of an AI investment bubble, economist Dean Baker examines the warning signs that the industry's financial boom may be faltering… if not destined for a bust!
‘Already feeling it’: Northern Amazon waterfall season ends early, hurting livelihoods
BOA VISTA, Roraima — “For those who live off the river, water isn’t just scenery: It is also a road, work and income.” That is how tour guide Fredson Guedes, known as “Tarzan,” learned to view the natural world around him over the course…
AI Is Class Warfare. Workers Are Fighting Back.
“AI is leveraged as a cudgel against the working class,” says writer and sociologist Alex Hanna.
Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires
MUARO JAMBI, Indonesia — Pineapples rattled around in the basket on the back of Tahang’s motorcycle as he drove through the cracked and dried out peatland in eastern Sumatra’s Muaro Jambi district. Tahang later pulled up beside local…
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