Article URL: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656100 Points: 10 # Comments: 1...
"There's enormous issues for our economy and for our democracy that have got to be dealt with," Sanders said. "And I feel we're not ready to do that." Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty I...
President Donald Trump holds an image showing the scale of Meta's new data center under construction in Louisiana. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images ICE arrested two drivers on Wednesday near a Meta co...
An ordinance to amend the city’s zoning laws laid out guidelines for where a crypto miner could operate in the area and how loud the operation could be....
An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interc...
Article URL: https://nukeproof.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704310 Points: 10 # Comments: 0...
A new report has published harrowing testimonies by Palestinians who were released as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. Meanwhile, rights activists are worried that Israel is now considering th...
TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd , ByteDance - TikTok's Chinese parent company - and a group of investors...
Oracle's CTO Larry Ellison, TikTok's CEO Shou Chew, and Michael Dell. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images TikTok's owner has closed...
Big financial companies expand beyond traditional securities to arbitrage event contracts in sport and politics...
Article URL: https://blog.quintarelli.it/2026/01/how-doge-improperly-accessed-and-shared-social-security-data-npr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733803 Points: 37 # Comments: 11...
Defence ministry to work with tech company Palantir to use information gathered over four years of war...
The planned exit marks the Trump administration’s latest move to scale back Washington’s military investment in Europe’s defense....
TikTok has officially launched a US joint venture tasked with “safeguarding the American content ecosystem”, with commercial activities such as e-commerce, advertising and marketing remaining under th...
The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part of an investigation into potential fraud involving the COVID ...
Semafor CEO Justin Smith says his company hosted close to 100 events in 2025. His ambition is to build a Washington, DC-based event that's supposed to rivals the annual Davos gathering in Switzerland....
Since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December 2024, one of the huge challenges the new government has faced is that of division. Syrian society is made up of different sectarian and ethnic groups -- t...
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/doge-employees-social-security-information-court-filing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698723 Points: 49 # Comments: 2...
TikTok's CEO Shou Chew Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images TikTok has finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US. The deal, a US joint venture, involves a new set of investo...
Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731694 Points: 14 #...