Expensive sci-fi dreck: The title refers to Elon Musk’s latest robo-stuff of course.
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2024-10-14: Ryan Broderick succinctly sums up why the contemporary mega-hype around AI doesn’t depend on …
2024-10-14
TikTok knows its app is harming kids, new internal documents show: All the social media companies either know full well the harms that using their product can bring or are wilfully ignorant of them.
2024-10-11: Well this is one of the more aggravating CAPTCHAs I’ve had to solve. Especially as 2/3 of the …
2024-10-10
The future of live news online sucks: Why the TikTokization of the big social media platforms makes them ‘uniquely bad places to follow news’.
2024-10-07: Google's creators envisaged that advertising-funded search engines are a bad idea (but made one anyway)
2024-10-06
Crowdsourcing the Monetization of Social Media: Social media could have been good if only we’d landed on a different incentive structure.
2024-10-04
Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021: Researchers discover ‘perfCtl’ - computer malware that, unusually, targets Linux and does all sorts of nasty things.
2024-10-04: 📚 Finished reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.
2024-10-04: From Ars Technica: Streaming services say they make more revenue per user on average if the …
2024-10-03
Apple is Silently Removing VPN Apps from Russia’s App Store: Presumably at government request, limiting the ability to access uncensored information and privacy of Russian internet users.
2024-10-02
Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System: Mildly terrifying episode of Veritasium showing how easy it is to hack almost any phone via exploiting the SS7 system.
Spy companies using Channel Islands to track phones around the world: The Channel Islands are a hotspot for the SS7 attacks that may allow hackers to track almost any phone’s location as well as intercepting calls and SMS.
2024-09-29: Elon Musk's free speech 'principles' lose to his economic interests once again as he capitulates to Brazil's Twitter demands
2024-09-28: Honestly it’s probably a losing battle, but if you want to try then organisations like CNN and …
2024-09-27
Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network: Claims from last year that under Musk’s ‘leadership’ Twitter became indistinguishable from Parler or Truth Social.
Hate speech is soaring on Twitter under Elon Musk: Contra Musk’s claims, hate speech on Twitter reportedly increased after he took over.
2024-09-19: Now Hezbollah's walkie-talkies are exploding
2024-09-19
Walkie-talkie blasts: attacks on Hezbollah kill 20: The earlier exploding pager attack has been followed up with a similar attack via walkie-talkies.
2024-09-18: Remote cyber-attack on Hezbollah's pagers causes thousands of injuries and deaths
2024-09-18
Hundreds of pagers exploded in Lebanon and Syria in deadly attack: Seemingly a coordinated attack on Hezbollah via explosive pagers.
2024-09-07: Fake streamers listening to fake music by fake artists on Spotify allegedly made a single fraudster at least $10 million
2024-09-05: 📄 Reading the Pivot to AI blog.
2024-08-16: Gotta say, currently being in the midst of the outstanding book ‘The Age of Surveillance …
2024-08-14: Is there anything more ‘US politics in 2024’ than this? While the real Trump-Musk Space …