High uptime masks real issues as only 71% of tries succeed, per ChargerHelp!’s 2025 EV reliability study Key Takeaways: A newly released report by ChargerHelp! shows that while 64% of Americans now live within two miles of an electric vehicle charging station, nearly one-third of charging attempts fail. Despite charging […]
This post was updated on 03/10/25 to incorporate breaking news. And so the UK’s Digital ID is official. Not legal, no laws have been passed, not even real in the sense it exists at all. But it is official, with the full backing of the Labour Government. I have talked and written extensively […]
The US Department of Homeland Security has built a massive DNA surveillance system, collecting over 1.5 million genetic profiles in four years. The DNA collection programme, which includes data from US citizens, minors and the elderly, raises concerns about genetic privacy, due process and the limits of executive power. The system, […]
Police are using their drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), airborne police cameras that make it easier than ever for law enforcement to follow you. “The Flock Safety drone, specifically, are flying LPR cameras as well,” Rahul Sidhu, Vice President of Aviation at Flock Safety, recently told a group of potential […]
The push for a tightly controlled payment and identity system took a quiet but alarming step forward with a little-noticed deal between credit card giant Visa and an obscure tech firm called TECH5. Their seven-year agreement aims to fast-track digital identity and payment systems under the deceptively tame “Digital Public Infrastructure” […]
Starting this month, banks all across Vietnam will begin deleting over 86,000,000 bank accounts that have not been “verified” under the countries new digital ID scheme. The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) are calling it a “system clean-up measure”. This “clean up” is part of the government’s “digital transformation” plan, a drive to […]
Globalist leaders are working at full speed to introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). A CBDC is a digital currency that is issued directly by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve in the US, the European Central Bank in the EU’s eurozone, and the Bank of England in […]
Intelligent terminals and AI agents will be everywhere. The Chinese State Council released its bold new plan: AI+. AI+ is a state-driven technology initiative that aims to transform every aspect of Chinese society with AI. This ten-year plan pushes to embed AI in six strategic domains, and rather than one-off […]
Ididn’t want to feed my soul into a machine. That was my first instinct when AI tools started appearing everywhere – not concern about jobs or privacy, but something deeper. These tools promise to make us smarter while systematically making us more dependent. After decades of working in the internet […]
Instead of demanding that utility companies spend up for reliable sources of energy, legislators try to balance the shortfall on the backs of consumers. Worse, this type of nonsense come Republican lawmakers. Public Utilities are monopolies under strict control of public boards and are supposed to provide energy to all […]