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How Israeli Cyber Weapons Are Taking Over Latin America
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How Israeli Cyber Weapons Are Taking Over Latin America
March 5, 2023

In January, Salvadoran newspaper El Faro revealed that the country’s police have purchased three Israeli surveillance tools. Through the approximately $2.2 million contract, El Salavador’s police acquired the Wave Guard Tracer, from Wave Guard Technologies, designed to trace calls, text, and data, the GEOLOC system sold by an unknown Israeli firm, which intercepts signals between SIM cards and cellular towers in order to do physical surveillance, and Web Tangles, made by Cobwebs Technologies, which uses a person’s social media account to create an identity report.

Foreboding Sign of Crazy Times… U.S. Shoots Down Suspected Chinese Balloons With F-22s and F-16s
February 16, 2023

The Chinese balloon-scare episode gripping America’s political class is comical if it were not so serious in its implications for global security.

Foreboding Sign of Crazy Times… U.S. Shoots Down Suspected Chinese Balloons With F-22s and F-16s
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ChatGPT: Who Will Guard AI From the Woke Guardians?
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ChatGPT: Who Will Guard AI From the Woke Guardians?
February 9, 2023

It is only when humans get their hands on technology that it has the ability to become a threat to society.

ChatGPT: AI Versus Me in Writing an Opinion Column
February 3, 2023

ChatGPT is an online tool created by the Open AI people that generates text. You prompt the software and out pours decent prose. Someday it is going to replace all of us, starting with people like me, we are told. So how good is it? Let’s see if the software can recreate a recent column from TAC. In the original hand-written column I presented four global memes with commentary. Let’s include the memes below in italics and see what CHatGPT has to say about each.

ChatGPT: AI Versus Me in Writing an Opinion Column
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5G: An Open Door for America’s Demise
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5G: An Open Door for America’s Demise
January 24, 2023

At day’s end, gamers, streamers and forward looking companies and governments will choose Chinese technology over America’s technologically challenged bullies.

Google’s Stock Climbed After It Fired 12,000 Employees, but What Did They Get Out of It?
January 23, 2023

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has announced it will lay off about 6 percent of its global workforce. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent his employees a letter warning of imminent layoffs and saying how “deeply sorry” he was. He offered for workers to “feel free to work from home” for the day in order to process the tough news that about 12,000 of them would soon lose their jobs.

Google’s Stock Climbed After It Fired 12,000 Employees, but What Did They Get Out of It?
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Apple: Forced Labor in India With Foxconn
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Apple: Forced Labor in India With Foxconn
January 10, 2023

Is the assembly of Apple iPhones in India “good corporate governance“?

Goodbye 2022 (and Beyond!)
January 7, 2023

The internet changed everything/The internet promotes democracy globally. Nope, it turns out the internet was a big grift and we were allowed to play with its full potential only for a few years until the big guys wanted it back for their own.

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