Ben Werdmuller

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Writing at the intersection of technology, democracy, and society by Ben Werdmuller

Buy my house!

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Notable links: September 11, 2026

Ben Werdmuller1w1 week ago9 min read

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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over, LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby, and more ›

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Two more newsrooms are suing OpenAI. It's complicated.

Ben Werdmuller1w1 week ago5 min read

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Anthropic Copyright Settlement, Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, and more ›

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Your TV is spying on you, and it's worse than you think.

Ben Werdmuller1w1 week ago2 min read

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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over, LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

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AI companies are at risk of making Silicon Valley's harmful mistakes all over again

Ben Werdmuller2w2 weeks agoHN2 min read

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The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023, AI safety is designed in the West, and failing users everywhere

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Notable links: August 14, 2026

Ben Werdmuller5w5 weeks ago4 min read

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Mea Culpa - Dark Hours, America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls, and more ›

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Chicago's social network is a huge bet for news. I think it's the future.

Ben Werdmuller5w5 weeks ago3 min read

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Can public media build its own social media? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_Public to try, Newsmast Foundation - Social Community App, and more ›

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My next experiment

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Notable links: July 31, 2026

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GrapheneOS: Private and secure mobile OS with Android app compatibility, US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system, and more ›

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Change is fractal. It starts with leaders

Ben Werdmuller7w7 weeks ago1 min read

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Don't bring sensitive data to a border crossing

Ben Werdmuller7w7 weeks agoCovered by22 min read

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Pixel Envy, and more ›

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GrapheneOS: Private and secure mobile OS with Android app compatibility, US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system, and more ›

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Can data collectives help strengthen vulnerable cultures in the face of AI?

Ben Werdmuller8w8 weeks ago2 min read

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Your Models Are Only as Good as the Datasets You Train On (Sponsor), Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control

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Notable links: July 24, 2026

Ben Werdmuller8w8 weeks ago10 min read

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OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident, Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs, and more ›

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AI vendors can't be trusted to secure their systems. Newsrooms need to act accordingly

Ben Werdmuller8w8 weeks agoCovered by32 min read

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Metacurity, and more ›

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OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident, How an OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face, and more ›

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Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change.

Ben Werdmuller8w8 weeks agoHN3 min read

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One in Four U.S. Employees Locked in Jobs for Health Insurance, Staying in a job for the health insurance? About 1 in 4 Americans do, a survey says

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People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk.

Ben Werdmuller8w8 weeks agoHN2 min read

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U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives

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American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.

Ben Werdmuller8w8 weeks agoHN Covered by83 min read

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Covered by8 sites

DEV Community, and more ›

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A coalition to build public AI, China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance, and more ›

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Notable links: July 17, 2026

Ben Werdmuller9w9 weeks ago10 min read

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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media, A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance, and more ›

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To innovate, news needs allies

Ben Werdmuller9w9 weeks ago1 min read

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The SFPD leaked its drone footage. It shouldn't be surveilling to begin with.

Ben Werdmuller9w9 weeks ago2 min read

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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

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