Tech
- ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
- Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired – Ars Technica
- DOJ extracts $30m settlement from PayPal over minority-owned business program – Engadget
- Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools
- Meta employees are protesting the company’s mouse tracking program – Engadget
- Tech companies lobbied away stricter rules on gas-powered data centers – Engadget
- A massive AI data center transforms rural Utah into a national flashpoint : Peoples Dispatch
- Americans really don’t want AI data centers close to their homes – Engadget
- University Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is ‘Unlawfully Discriminatory’ to Data Centers
- Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers – Ars Technica
- Microsoft’s massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off ‘half the country’ to meet power requirements, government says — $1 billion project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure
- Amidst Xbox boycotts and media pressure, Microsoft reportedly restructures Israeli office after internal investigation into ethical violations | Eurogamer.net
Gaming
- eBay rejects GameStop’s offer, calling it ‘neither credible nor attractive’ – Engadget
- Nintendo announces Switch 2 price increase, consoles will soon be $500 in the US
- Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest – game gets a review bomb | GamingOnLinux
- Double Fine Is Unionizing
- Cosplaying Gamers Will Raid EA HQ To Protest Saudi Arabia’s $55 Billion Buyout – GameSpot
- Slay The Spire 2 Gets More Bad Reviews Than First Game
