Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #168 (05/14/2026)

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ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir

Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired - Ars Technica

DOJ extracts $30m settlement from PayPal over minority-owned business program - Engadget

Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools

Meta employees are protesting the company’s mouse tracking program - Engadget

Tech companies lobbied away stricter rules on gas-powered data centers - Engadget

A massive AI data center transforms rural Utah into a national flashpoint : Peoples Dispatch

Americans really don’t want AI data centers close to their homes - Engadget

University Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is ‘Unlawfully Discriminatory’ to Data Centers

Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers - Ars Technica

Microsoft’s massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off ‘half the country’ to meet power requirements, government says — $1 billion project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure