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OK, 55 yrs ago defense tech drove Silicon Valley. But PC revolution, internet, etc was fueled by hacker spirit and idealism, at least until the money got crazy. SV's current militarism and Billion $ Bro-ism pivots away from that. it wasn't always solely about the money. wired.com/story/war-bros-did…
Anthropic lost a legal battle to overturn one of the supply-chain risk labels that the US Department of Defense slapped on the company, as a federal appeals court in DC on Friday refused to second-guess the Trump administration.
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The laws designating Anthropic had to be challenged in separate courts. A federal judge in San Francisco tossed out one of the supply-chain risk labels in March, but Friday's ruling means the other one will stay in place indefinitely.
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Meanwhile, the Pentagon hasn’t provided detailed updates about its progress in replacing Claude with alternatives.
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The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration. wired.com/story/appeals-cour…
26 years ago, she published a wildly prophetic book about Silicon Valley. Then she disappeared. What happened to tech writer Paulina Borsook? wired.com/story/paulina-bors…
In a sense, “Cyberselfish” is a continuation of Borsook’s criticisms of early WIRED. If sales were modest, the book was “a reputational success” for the publisher, her agent says. But the work dried up afterwards. wired.com/story/paulina-bors…
Could an actual blacklist have been among Borsook’s torments? WIRED contributor Tommy Craggs put the question to a number of people.
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