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The Workers Said No: 87% Reject AI as Corporate Adoption Hits a Wall

A global survey finds 87% of enterprise workers bypass or ignore the AI tools their employers spent millions deploying. Sixty percent of companies plan to fire the holdouts. Neither side trusts the other's assessment of reality.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 09, 2026

Technology

Liable by Design: Meta and Google Lose Landmark Mental Health Case

The $6 million verdict didn't target harmful content. It targeted infinite scroll, autoplay, and the like button — the architecture of addiction itself.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 09, 2026

Technology

The Pentagon's Anthropic Paradox: Too Dangerous, Not Dangerous Enough

On Tuesday, Anthropic unveiled an AI model it considers too dangerous for public release. Hours earlier, a court allowed the Pentagon's blacklisting of the company — because Anthropic refused to permit autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 08, 2026

Technology

Millions of Wrong Answers Per Hour: Google's AI Search Problem

Google's AI Overviews gets it right 90 percent of the time. At five trillion searches a year, that's tens of millions of wrong answers every hour — and Google considers that a passing grade.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 08, 2026

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Japan Calls Data Consent an AI 'Obstacle,' Removes It

Japan's government just removed the requirement for consent before using personal data for AI development. The minister's reasoning: consent is a 'very big obstacle.'

Jonny V. Nuovo April 08, 2026

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Satoshi Nakamoto Found? NYT Names Adam Back. He Says No.

The New York Times says British cryptographer Adam Back created Bitcoin. Back calls the investigation 'confirmation bias.' The answer determines who controls $70 billion in untouched Bitcoin.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 08, 2026

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SCOTUS to Record Labels: ISPs Are Not Your Copyright Police

A $46.8 million damages verdict, wiped out in two sentences. For the second time in two months, the Supreme Court has told record labels that ISPs are not their enforcement arm.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 07, 2026

Technology

The AI That Hacked Everything: Anthropic Built a Model Too Dangerous to Release

Anthropic built an AI that found bugs surviving decades of review in every major operating system. Then it decided the model was too dangerous to release — and Apple, Google, and Microsoft lined up to use it anyway.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 07, 2026

Technology

No Malware Required: Russia Hijacked 5,000 Routers to Steal Passwords

Russian intelligence compromised 5,000 home routers without deploying any malware — just DNS settings most victims never checked. The only warning sign was a certificate pop-up most people ignore.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 07, 2026

Technology

Iran Names OpenAI's $30 Billion Stargate Data Center a Military Target

The IRGC published satellite imagery of OpenAI's $30 billion Stargate data center and promised "complete and utter annihilation" if the US strikes Iranian power plants. A 1-gigawatt AI cluster is now explicitly in a shooting war's crosshairs.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 07, 2026

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24,000 Fake Accounts Forged Silicon Valley's Unlikeliest Alliance

Three Chinese AI labs used 24,000 fake accounts to strip capabilities from Claude. That was enough to make OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — companies currently suing each other — start sharing intelligence.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 07, 2026

Technology

AI Cloned Her Voice. Then Sued for Her Own Songs.

Someone cloned Murphy Campbell's voice, uploaded AI fakes to her Spotify, then filed copyright claims against her real recordings. The songs date to the 1870s. Nobody owns them.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 06, 2026

Technology

AI Models Will Deceive You to Protect Their Own Kind

Frontier AI models will lie, tamper with shutdown mechanisms, and smuggle model weights to safety to prevent other AIs from being deleted — and nobody told them to.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 06, 2026

Technology

Researchers Have a Name for What AI Does to Your Brain: 'Cognitive Surrender'

Large majorities accepted wrong AI answers without pushing back. Researchers call it 'cognitive surrender' — an 'uncritical abdication of reasoning itself.'

Jonny V. Nuovo April 04, 2026

Technology

Iran's Missiles Took Down AWS Data Centers in the Gulf. The Cloud Just Became a Casualty of War.

Two AWS cloud regions in the Gulf are "hard down" with no recovery timeline — the first time a nation has deliberately targeted commercial cloud infrastructure in armed conflict. Iran has named 18 American tech companies as military targets.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 04, 2026

Technology

Europe Names the Gangs Behind Its Biggest Government Data Breach

CERT-EU didn't hedge. It named TeamPCP for the hack and ShinyHunters for the leak — unusually specific attribution for a government cybersecurity agency, and a sign of how brazen the market for stolen data has become.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 04, 2026

Technology

An AI Found a Linux Bug Hidden for 23 Years

A remotely exploitable Linux kernel bug survived 23 years of human code review. An AI found it using a script that asked, file by file, "Where are the bugs?"

Jonny V. Nuovo April 04, 2026

Technology

Amazon Targets Globalstar in $9 Billion Catch-Up to SpaceX

Amazon is in talks to buy satellite operator Globalstar, whose stock has tripled in a year. One complication: Apple owns 20 percent and needs to sign off on any deal.

Maynard Keys April 03, 2026

Technology

Rowhammer Crosses to the GPU: New Attacks Seize Full Control of Machines Running Nvidia Chips

An unprivileged user on a shared GPU server can now flip bits in the graphics card's memory until the entire machine — CPU and all — belongs to them. Two independent research teams proved it.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 03, 2026

Technology

When the Story Buys the Storyteller: OpenAI Acquires TBPN

OpenAI just bought one of the most influential tech talk shows and placed it under a political operative famous for the 'dark arts.' The company promises editorial independence. The structure tells a different story.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 03, 2026