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London City Hall and a Metropolitan Police officer, illustrating the Mayor's intervention in the Met procurement process.
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Sadiq Khan blocked a £50M Met Police deal with Palantir. Scotland Yard had only talked to one supplier.

London's mayor cited a 'clear and serious breach' of procurement rules and stopped the Metropolitan Police from awarding Palantir a £50M AI intelligence contract on May 21.

Elon Musk speaking at the World Economic Forum.
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A federal jury took two hours to throw out Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.

On May 18 a nine-juror panel rejected every claim Musk filed against OpenAI in 2024. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had told the courtroom she was ready to dismiss on the spot.

Aerial view of a large data center facility with cooling systems
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Residents can't sleep. 29 million gallons vanished. Oregon sent the bill. Data centers are losing the neighborhood.

Three data center stories trended in one week: infrasound, 29M gallons of missing water, and Oregon forcing grid cost pass-through.

Abstract illustration of health data and digital privacy
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Palantir contractors are getting 'unlimited access' to NHS patient data before it's anonymized

NHS England created an admin role giving Palantir staff access to identifiable patient data. The £330M contract's break clause arrives in March 2027.

Google Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro shown hands-on, the device family GrapheneOS supports and the one whose attestation chip the controversy is about
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Apple and Google are bringing hardware attestation to the web. GrapheneOS says it's a monopoly play.

Google's reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will require a certified iOS or Android device to pass some captchas, even on desktop. GrapheneOS calls the pattern anti-competitive.

Illustration representing DOGE and government technology
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A judge killed DOGE's grant purge. The 'review process' was asking ChatGPT 'Is this DEI?'

A federal judge restored $100M+ in grants after two DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to flag 97% of NEH grants as DEI, including an HVAC repair and Holocaust research.

Abstract illustration representing VPN connections and digital privacy
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The EU called VPNs 'a loophole that needs closing.' Proton's UK signups rose 1,800%.

An EU Parliament briefing and Executive VP Henna Virkkunen both flagged VPN circumvention of age verification. The UK's attempt to solve it backfired into record VPN adoption.

Google logo with a stylized eye, illustrating digital surveillance themes.
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DHS used a customs summons to demand a Canadian's Google data over anti-ICE posts. ACLU sued May 4.

ACLU sued in N.D. Cal. to block a 1930s tariff-act subpoena targeting a Canadian who hasn't been to the US since 2015. Google has not said whether it complied.

DHS senior official Kristie Canegallo presenting awards at the CISA Annual Award Ceremony in Arlington, Virginia.
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Five Eyes intel agencies publish first joint agentic AI security guide. Their advice: slow down.

CISA, NSA, GCHQ, ASD, CSE and NCSC-NZ jointly tell organizations agentic AI isn't ready for fast rollout. The 23-page guide names five risk categories.

Electronic certification testing equipment in a lab
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FCC just voted to bar Chinese labs from certifying US electronics. 75% of devices are tested there now.

Brendan Carr's FCC advanced the 'Bad Labs' rule on April 30 in a 3-0 vote, kicking off a 60-90 day comment period. The rule covers 126 labs in China and Hong Kong.

Aerial view of data center infrastructure and power systems
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The US government is about to make data centers show their power bills for the first time

The EIA confirmed it will develop a mandatory energy disclosure survey for data centers, two years behind Europe. Here's what it covers and why it matters.