The US is far behind in clean-energy technology
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-us-is-far-behind-in-clean-energy.html
Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to support the Pentagon. But ProPublica found that the tech giant has relied on its global workforce for years to support other federal clients, including the Justice Department.
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-tech-support-government-cybersecurity-china-doj-treasury?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Technology #Tech #Microsoft #Pentagon #Cybersecurity #Defense #China
Kate Bowles
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"Israel effectively serves as the world’s largest business incubator – though, in its case, not just by nurturing start-up companies.
Rather, it offers global corporations the chance to test and refine new weapons, machinery, technologies, data collection and automation processes in the occupied territories. These developments are associated with mass oppression, control, surveillance, incarceration, ethnic cleansing – and now genocide"
#Israel#Gaza#Genocide #China
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/israels-genocide-is-big-business
"...as a teacher, I cannot just stand by and watch as students let AI do their homework for them. So, I’ve begun adjusting the way I work and assigning tasks that AI struggles to handle. For example, instead of short essays and creative writing assignments, I require students to produce and appear in videos — a task that AI cannot yet complete."
Yeah, about that, laoshi...
Nithin Coca నితిన్
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Peng Lifa (彭立發 aka 彭載舟) was disappeared by Chinese authorities after hanging banners critical of CCP policies from a bridge in Beijing in October 2022.
News has recently come out that he has been sentenced to 9 years in prison on charges including “arson” and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”
https://www.nchrd.org/2025/07/china-quash-wrongful-sentence-of-beijing-bridge-protester/
Ulrike Hahn
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BREAKING: #EU (via Ireland) hits #TikTok with €530M fine for illegally sending users’ personal data to #China.
"TikTok fails to adequately assess the implications of Chinese surveillance laws on Europeans’ data."
#DefendDemocracy#BigTech #EUlaw#GDPR
https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-hit-with-e530m-privacy-fine-ireland-china-data/