Severed camera poles, unanimous council votes, and a crowdsourced map of the surveillance state — the backlash against Flock Safety has hardened into a movement, and the company is calling it a coordinated attack.
A global network of unpaid civilians on Discord is turning atrocity footage into courtroom evidence — at a cost to their own minds that no one is paying for.
Ukrainian drones have knocked out roughly a quarter of Russia’s refining, and shortages have reached Siberia. Mikhail Khodorkovsky — who once ran the country’s largest oil company — says the real breakdown isn’t the strikes, but the state’s inability to respond.
A brutal wave of layoffs — led by 3,200 cuts at Microsoft’s Xbox — has gutted studios from id Software to Bethesda. On July 15, game workers answered with the industry’s first coordinated multi-studio walkout.
Beijing has signed 29 mostly Global South nations into a new Shanghai-based body — the World AI Cooperation Organization — a bid to write the rules of artificial intelligence just as US export controls push America’s own models behind a wall.
A poll worker confronted by agents at a Syracuse polling site is the latest sign that ICE’s internal watchdog — meant to police its own — has turned toward monitoring online critics, even as its oversight of detention facilities slips.