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Liberation Technology

@Liberationtech

One of the world's leading communities for tech for good. Founded at @Stanford in 2008. @nytimes featured. Helped launch @joindiaspora, now @WeVoyce.

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AWS launches agentic AI Kiro bots with memory and support for recurring development jobs venturebeat.com/technology/a… via @VentureBeat
AWS launches agentic AI Kiro bots with memory and support for recurring development jobs

AWS launches agentic AI Kiro bots with memory and support for recurring development jobs

Each Kiro bot has a name, a continuing conversation, its own notes and a dedicated workspace. Developers can return to that conversation to change direction or review findings without reopening every...

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A rare strike in Taiwan exposes labor unrest beneath the global AI rush restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-…
A rare strike in Taiwan exposes labor unrest beneath the global AI rush

A rare strike in Taiwan exposes labor unrest beneath the global AI rush

Labor disputes and unionization in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry highlight growing worker discontent over the unequal distribution of profits from the AI boom.

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Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password theregister.com/security/202…
Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password

Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password

Decade-old vulnerability in OpenSSH is now fixed, so get a-patchin'

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Anthropic lets Claude read your bank accounts, but not move money thenextweb.com/news/anthropi… via @thenextweb
Anthropic lets Claude read your bank accounts, but not move money

Anthropic lets Claude read your bank accounts, but not move money

Anthropic's Personal Finance beta lets US Claude Pro, Max and Ultra users link bank accounts via Plaid and ask about their spending, read-only.

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Sony revives the original Walkman headphones, adds USB-C arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
Sony revives the original Walkman headphones, adds USB-C

Sony revives the original Walkman headphones, adds USB-C

Orange ear cushions included.

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French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe theguardian.com/technology/2…
French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe

French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe

Temperature and defrosting thresholds raised to ‘very high levels’ at three cold stores stocking vital blood products

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Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar techcrunch.com/2026/11/05/me… via @techcrunch
Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar | TechCrunch

Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar | TechCrunch

Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.

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Americans overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms engadget.com/2306534/america…
Americans overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms - Engadget

Americans overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms - Engadget

Nowhere was the rebuke stronger than the now-blue Ohio.

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HumanLayer just got acquired by Factory. But it gave users a way out first thenewstack.io/factory-acqui… via @thenewstack
HumanLayer just got acquired by Factory. But it gave users a way out first.

HumanLayer just got acquired by Factory. But it gave users a way out first.

Factory has acquired HumanLayer, its third AI coding startup in a month, leaving users to migrate, pay up, or self-host the open source version.

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OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data center deals, including avoiding NDAs and lowering power usage during peak times, after Democrats' midterm wins bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
OpenAI to Change How It Handles Data Center Efforts After Outcry

OpenAI to Change How It Handles Data Center Efforts After Outcry

OpenAI said it will avoid nondisclosure agreements when it negotiates data center deals and ensure residents don’t pay for the electricity to power those projects, part of a framework the company...

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What the 'Blue Wave' in the 2026 U.S. midterm election means for the American AI industry and businesses venturebeat.com/technology/w… via @VentureBeat
What the Democratic 'Blue Wave' in the 2026 U.S. midterm election means for the American AI...

What the Democratic 'Blue Wave' in the 2026 U.S. midterm election means for the American AI...

Businesses can continue evaluating AI investments on measurable value. They should also expect to explain how their deployments work, who benefits and what happens when the technology fails.

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The Brazilian left’s quest to ‘tame’ Meta: A narrative of denouncement and resistance globalvoices.org/2026/11/02/… via @globalvoices
The Brazilian left’s quest to ‘tame’ Meta: A narrative of denouncement and resistance

The Brazilian left’s quest to ‘tame’ Meta: A narrative of denouncement and resistance

In our October edition of Undertones, we examine a movement calling for accountability and coordinated online action to challenge Meta’s problematic content moderation policies and governance...

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Tobacco company got smoked by leaving secret recipes on a file share theregister.com/security/202…
Tobacco company got smoked by leaving secret recipes on a file share

Tobacco company got smoked by leaving secret recipes on a file share

They denied the data was real...then removed it

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Daniel Dines: workflows will go from people-centric to AI-centric thenextweb.com/news/daniel-d… via @thenextweb
Daniel Dines on AI agents, tokenless automation and having no plan B

Daniel Dines on AI agents, tokenless automation and having no plan B

‘When you have a plan B, actually you will go to the plan B,’ UiPath’s Daniel Dines told the TNW Podcast.

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Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones arstechnica.com/security/202…
Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones

Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones

Researchers say group may have been Kremlin-sponsored in search of diplomatic targets.

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Tech barons cozied up to Trump. What will they do in newly blue America? theguardian.com/technology/2…
Tech barons cozied up to Trump. What will they do in newly blue America?

Tech barons cozied up to Trump. What will they do in newly blue America?

Democrats’ success was helped by popular anger over tech, AI and the super rich – life for billionaires could become much more difficult

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After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming techcrunch.com/2026/11/04/af… via @techcrunch
After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming | TechCrunch

After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming | TechCrunch

Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.

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OpenAI says it will protect local resources and report on the impact of its data centers engadget.com/2307590/openai-…
OpenAI says it will protect local resources and report on the impact of its data centers - Engadget

OpenAI says it will protect local resources and report on the impact of its data centers - Engadget

OpenAI claims its new pledges were in the works before Americans voted strongly against the data center boom.

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Render just removed its AI sandbox time limit — and Vercel still has a 24-hour cap thenewstack.io/render-vercel… via @thenewstack
Render just removed its AI sandbox time limit — and Vercel still has a 24-hour cap

Render just removed its AI sandbox time limit — and Vercel still has a 24-hour cap

Render is challenging Vercel with AI sandboxes that run indefinitely, plus durable workflows and shared storage for long-running agent jobs.

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Democratic gubernatorial wins from Texas and Georgia to Ohio and Pennsylvania are set to expose 50% of AI data center proposals to more scrutiny and pushback bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
AI Data Center Boom Set for Upheaval After US Election Rout

AI Data Center Boom Set for Upheaval After US Election Rout

Data center developers seeking to build dozens of sprawling artificial intelligence campuses across Texas were already dealing with a suspension of approvals under Republican Texas Governor Greg...

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