Month: May 2026

Mordecai Kurz argues tech oligarchs erode democracy through monopolies – and predicts how the trend may end The billionaires of today are unusually aggressive in their hoarding of cultural and technological influence, according to Mordecai Kurz, a Stanford economist whose research connects monopoly power with political and economic inequality. In ...

Energy security comes from using local, renewable resources to power, heat and cool communities, as Ukraine is doing Donald Trump’s unjustified war on Iran and the resulting global fuel crisis is a continuing reminder that true energy security and independence will continue to elude us so long as we remain ...

As you scroll around the web, how often to you think about the physical infrastructure—the miles of cables, acres of land—that makes up the internet? This is where real power lies, and there are ways to imagine it differently, as serving the people who use these utilities instead of big ...

University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw from a first-person perspective, including the children they were teaching, then use that footage to develop AI models. Crucially, the program was presented as opt-out, rather than opt-in, meaning that parents had to ...

One of the six Americans is experiencing symptoms, according to media reports. One province in Congo reports 390 cases. ...

Channel 4 was aware of one of the rape claims before broadcast, but the woman involved still featured in the show. ...

The potential leadership challenger says he is not proposing the UK considers rejoining the EU. ...

Jurors spent nearly a month hearing and viewing evidence in the high-profile trial, where Musk had accused Altman of “stealing a charity”. ...

An outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo involves a rare strain and is in an area affected by conflict. ...

The bodies of all five Italian divers who died in the Maldives last week have now been found, officials tell the BBC. ...