AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
2026-07-13T19:23:40Z•f637945c0f41e3554fd2e1a7f58e08d1af084f34eefb4d05e852132111ed9c5d
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What happened
Series of Schneier blog posts covering: growing political opposition to AI data centers and concern about concentrated corporate power; a Squid proxy vulnerability (“Squidbleed”) that can leak HTTP requests; the rise of pervasive AI-powered surveillance and vehicle ‘fingerprinting’ (Flock) that can track cars without plates; societal risks from LLMs altering human language; Five Eyes warning about AI-enabled autonomous hacking; Google suing groups that used Google’s Gemini to automate phishing/scams; France moving to require quantum-resistant encryption for certified products (phase-out by 202
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- 2026-07-13T19:23:40Z
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