Tag: surveillance

AI • August 7, 2026

Could Palantir become the Weyland-Yutani of real life and should investors be worried?

Palantir is having another blockbuster year, but the company’s growing influence is also reviving an old science-fiction comparison: is it becoming the closest thing the real world has to Weyland-Yutani, the ruthless corporation from the Alien franchise? While the comparison is obviously fictional, it reflects a broader debate around the company’s expanding role in AI, […]

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Devices • July 12, 2026

When Amazon Deleted 1984 From Kindles

In 2009, Amazon delivered one of the most brutally ironic tech moments of the digital age: it remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from customers’ Kindle devices. Not a parody. Not a Black Mirror pitch. The book famous for state-controlled truth, disappearing records, and the “memory hole” was itself vanished from people’s e-readers. The […]

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