Elon Musk and X postured as defenders against government surveillance but sold user data to Dataminr, which facilitates such surveillance.

Ex–intelligence officer David Grusch says the Pentagon is hiding evidence of massive spacecraft of nonhuman origin and it has killed to cover it up.

Google prohibits using its tech for “immediate harm,” but Israel is harnessing its facial recognition to set up a dragnet of Palestinians.

The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.

Federal contract materials outline plans to geofence 67 different public high schools throughout the state and to target phones with recruitment ads.

Leading up to and during Russia’s unprovoked and illegal further invasion of Ukraine, the United States is supporting Ukraine’s continued access to the Internet and to enhance Ukraine’s cyber...

After the Israeli assassination ad, digital rights group 7amleh tested the limits of Facebook and Meta’s machine-learning moderation.

Twitter’s “official partner” monitored the precise time and location of post-Roe demonstrations, internal emails show.

Employees are internally protesting Google’s Project Nimbus, which they fear is being used by Israel to violate Palestinians’ human rights.

The Heat Initiative, formed to attack Apple encryption in the name of stopping child abuse, is part of a political dark-money network.

Before Russian intelligence cribbed his handle, Marcel Lehel Lazar hacked celebrities and Sidney Blumenthal. Now he’s back home in Transylvania.

Google downplays its military work with Israel, but “Project Nimbus” documents tie the American tech giants to Israel’s deadly military capabilities.

U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, released a wishlist of warfighting technology that included doing deepfakes.

Special Operations vet Jeff Tiegs runs Skull Games, where evangelical Christians use internet surveillance to locate and bust sex workers.

Israel bombardment and blockade are cutting Palestinians off from the internet: “There is a near complete information blackout from Gaza.”

Engineers warned Meta that nations can monitor chats; staff fear Israel is using this trick to pick assassination targets in Gaza.

Social media spying by the Army’s Protective Services Battalion is supposed to keep an eye on embarrassing posts about generals.

Iron Truth members have flagged thousands of posts for removal, from clearly racist or false content to posts that are merely sympathetic to Palestinians.

Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving division, knew its cars sometimes had problems detecting children — but kept the vehicles on the road.

On a government commission, Jacob Helberg stokes fears in Congress of TikTok and China. His firm, Palantir, could profit from a Cold War.

Google wants you to think that its work for Saudi Aramco will help save the planet.

“I think it may actually harm the fight against antisemitism,” said the head of a Palestinian digital rights group briefed on the potential change.

Researchers tested for bias in Facebook’s algorithm by purchasing ads promoting for-profit colleges and studying who saw them.

Meta acknowledged that Instagram was burying some Palestinian flag emoji comments in “offensive” contexts.

Artificial intelligence firm Dataminr is making questionable use of its Twitter firehose privileges — and not for the first time.