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Regulation, antitrust, privacy and the widening negotiation between Washington and the technology industry, from The Silicon Ledger.
Valve's privacy-conscious approach to Australia's new age verification requirement relies on bank cards, but spotty debit card support and low credit card adoption among young players are creating friction.
Law enforcement agencies nationwide are deploying surveillance technologies like automated license plate readers, cell-site simulators, and facial recognition systems while actively concealing their deployment from the public and courts.
Three Anthropic scientists have publicly warned that the industry lacks adequate safeguards against superintelligence, even as development accelerates. Their disclosures reveal deep internal concerns about alignment failures and containment breaches.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has named Access Now, 7amleh, DeFlock, and New Media Rights as recipients of its 2026 Awards, recognizing their efforts to protect digital freedoms and advance technology that serves justice and innovation.
A safety researcher at Anthropic has publicly stated there is more than a 10% chance that artificial intelligence could eliminate humanity within the next ten years, while a departing employee accuses major AI labs of recklessly pursuing superintelligence.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation released roughly 1,000 pages of government records revealing widespread operational failures, patient harm, and perverse financial incentives in the WISeR program, which uses artificial intelligence to evaluate medical service requests for Medicare beneficiaries.
Attackers claiming to be security researchers have extracted 4,000 BTC from Liquid's federation wallet, representing 95% of its holdings. The hackers say they will return the funds once the underlying vulnerability is patched.
Jakub Pachocki argues that no AI lab has adequately solved alignment challenges and urges the industry to pause development until shared safety standards emerge, warning that autonomous systems could soon pursue their own objectives.
