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Lithuania is raising the alarm over Russian GPS spoofing, warning that Moscow now has the capability to falsify satellite navigation signals reaching deep into European territory. The concern isn't just military — civilian aviation, shipping, and emergency services all depend on GPS, and deliberate interference could quietly cause serious harm without a single shot being fired.
Shifting from physical infrastructure to digital labor, a new piece argues that Wikipedia is following a familiar big tech playbook when it comes to its workforce. The Wikimedia Foundation, long celebrated as a nonprofit champion of open knowledge, is being accused of suppressing worker organizing in ways that mirror the anti-union tactics critics have long associated with Silicon Valley giants. The tension between mission and management is becoming harder to ignore.
And on the question of who controls artificial intelligence, Pope Leo the Fourteenth has weighed in with his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. The document takes direct aim at the concentration of technological power among a handful of global corporations, arguing that when a few players control transformative tools, the rest of humanity loses meaningful agency over its own future. It's a theological argument, but the economics behind it are ones many secular critics share.
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