Technology & Surveillance
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Rise in Single, Disengaged Men Marks ‘Spiritual Battle’
A dramatic rise in unmarried men is cause for concern, warned Christian apologist Dr. Sean McDowell. “At its core, we have a spiritual battle that’s taking place,” he said on “Washington Watch.” “People have believed lies — in particular men — that their happiness and…
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Suicide Among Teen Girls Is Rising
The gender gap in teenage suicide is narrowing, showing an alarming increase in suicides among girls. The suicide death rates of boys and girls ages 10-14 almost evened out between 2018-2024, Axios reported last week. Previously, data showed boys experienced the highest suicide death rates,…
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Think You’re Anonymous? 5 Ways AI Can Find You Without GPS
For years, privacy advice has been relatively straightforward: turn off location services, strip location metadata from photographs, keep your face out of pictures, and be careful about what personal information you post online. Artificial intelligence is beginning to complicate that advice. A new generation of…
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Witches Are Finding Jesus While Liberal Churches Are Reinventing Him
Something strange is happening in America’s spiritual landscape. Witchcraft, tarot, paganism and occult spirituality have moved out of the shadows and into the mainstream. Social media is filled with tarot readings. Online marketplaces sell spells and curses. Hollywood increasingly presents witches as sympathetic, empowered spiritual…
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Your Papers, Please – The Internet Is Entering The Digital ID Era
For most of the internet’s history, opening a website required little more than an internet connection. You could read, search, post, debate and browse without first proving to a government-backed system who you were. That era may be beginning to close. Governments increasingly want online…
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Two Visions For The World Collided At The UN – And Israel Is At The Center
For several days, world leaders have walked to the same podium in New York and spoken about war, security, artificial intelligence, climate, international law and the future. But listen carefully and something much bigger emerges. They are describing two very different visions of how the…
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AI Almost Started A War With China – And We Nearly Didn’t Catch It
For years, the nightmare scenario surrounding artificial intelligence and warfare has looked something like science fiction: autonomous weapons making their own decisions, computers selecting targets, machines eventually removing human beings from the process of deciding who lives and who dies. But we may have been…
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2027: The Perfect Storm Is Already Forming
Most Americans aren’t thinking about sulfuric acid, phosphate fertilizer, Saudi oil pipelines or water levels on major shipping routes when they walk through the grocery store. But perhaps they should be. A remarkable collection of problems is developing across the systems that produce and transport…
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The Kill Switch Beneath The Ocean
The opening strike of the next major war may not be a missile exploding over a city. It could happen silently, thousands of feet beneath the ocean, as specialized submarines sever the fiber-optic cables carrying the modern world’s most important communications. No fireball would appear…
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The AI Cold War Is Already Here
China’s reaction to a recent warning from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei revealed how quickly the debate over artificial intelligence has become a struggle for global power. Amodei urged democratic nations to slow the development of the most dangerous frontier systems while preventing China from closing…
