Iran: 95 percent chance of a nuclear strike – but please without protective measures
At 17:01 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, the Pentagon deployed the only artificial intelligence system running on its secret military networks...
Healthy through obedience – conventional medicine in the service of the pharmaceutical industry
Modern conventional medicine has developed a remarkably efficient business model: fear in, obedience out. Health is no longer understood as something...
Google monopolized knowledge – Brave liberated it
Once upon a time, Google was the ultimate authority on knowledge. A digital deity that knew everything, absolutely everything...
The end of an unobserved existence: Your smartphone is the guardian you bought yourself.
It's reassuring to know that your smartphone is always there for you. Always awake. Always attentive. Always ready to...
The man who co-financed the Matrix: Peter Thiel
There are tech billionaires. And then there's Peter Thiel. Born in Frankfurt, raised in the USA and South Africa, co-founder of...
Cybercrime 2.0: Using artificial intelligence to commit crimes
Previously, state-sponsored data theft required either an intelligence agency, a few poorly paid insiders, or at least a bit of criminal activity...
Deactivate RFID chip: New ID card in microwave
It's fascinating how much technological innovation can be packed into a small plastic card. An ID card used to be a...
Biometrics devours freedom: Child protection as the new Trojan horse
It always starts innocently enough. With a good cause. In this case: child protection. Who could possibly object to that? Nobody wants...
When the data god falls: Palantir's digital apocalypse
Palantir, the discreet US data company, officially provides "analytics solutions" and unofficially knows just about everything there is to know – or at least what...
The state wants your name so that you will finally shut up.
There are arguments so perfect that they instantly end any discussion. They function like a master key to power...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "We kill – and hope you enjoy it"
There are CEOs who sell software. And then there's Alex Karp. He sells power. And he sells it with a...
POLAP: The Federal Council is building its own digital surveillance nightmare – and calling it security
It begins as always. With good intentions. With worried faces. With fine-sounding words like "efficiency," "protection of the population," and "better..."
Moltbook: The social network without people
Humans have spent millennia building tools. First the hammer. Then the computer. Then artificial intelligence. And...
I asked an AI about the future of jobs – it gave me a funeral oration for the middle class.
I asked an AI chatbot the following question: What happens when the workforce is decimated by the use of AI? I...
Wikipedia: Where facts are only allowed through the filter of power
Wikipedia is often referred to as "the free encyclopedia." Freely accessible, freely editable, free from bias. A digital campfire of enlightenment...
Graphite sees everything; no password, no encryption protects you from them.
There are moments when reality stumbles over itself so elegantly that one almost feels gratitude. For example...
5G – Making phone calls was never the plan
It's touching how persistently we were told for years that 5G was for faster internet. For buffer-free videos. For...
Hollywood, you can pack it in – AI is taking over, Seedance 2.0 is here.
So, here we are. No dramatic drumroll from Los Angeles, no strike in front of the studios, no Oscar for "Best Existential Crisis"...
Robots need your body: The AI thinks you're serving.
"Robots need your body." This isn't a dystopian slogan from a forgotten cyberpunk film, but rather the sober description of a new business model...
Why the fight against cash is a fight against freedom
It begins, as always, with a friendly reminder from Brussels. A little bit of technology, a little bit of order, a little bit of "security." And...
Health as an investigative tool – how states and corporations are creating the transparent patient
People used to go to the doctor because they were sick. Now, you should check beforehand whether the appointment might also be for...
My Carbon: How to privatize responsibility and sell control democratically
"My Carbon" sounds harmless. Personal. Almost intimate. Like a fitness tracker for your conscience. Finally, you can join in. Finally, you're part of it...
Welcome to the crypto kindergarten of the new monetary order
Besides the heavy-handed coercive measures that are now served up to us with the finesse of a jackhammer, there is of course also the more elegant one...
Two videos, no truth: The great bluff of media literacy
The entry point is unassuming. A link, a button, a friendly promise: "Take the Real or AI Test". Sounds like a playful…
High-tech in the ice – minus 30 degrees, no doubt: The future doesn't freeze, it marches.
Minus 30 degrees. Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia. A region where even thoughts freeze before they're fully formed. And exactly...
Self-organizing nanotechnology in the blood
There are topics that reflexively divide society into two camps: Some cry "Scaremongering!", others "Finally, someone's said it..."
What is ethical AI?
Here's what the bots say: Ethical AI refers to the development, deployment, and use of systems...
What Corona has changed: Medicine, society and awareness
You sit down, click "Play," and instead of an interview, you get a panorama. Corinna Klein talks to Dietrich...
Smiled, flashed, saved: China's AI state in real time
Of course, the system is called Skynet. If you're going to build a comprehensive AI surveillance network that logs every step, records every movement, and...
The old system is finished! – This is what's next!
While grand words about innovation, progress, and future viability are bandied about on talk shows, the responsible decision-makers are still sitting in front of Excel spreadsheets and...
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