Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims: The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation.
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2026-07-18: Buy a new monitor, get some adware for free
2026-07-16
2026-07-09: The Coming Storm plots the recent history of the modern day conspiracism that rots our politics today
2026-07-04
UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears: ‘The average parent or carer does not post a picture of a child online thinking that it might be scraped to be turned into CSAM’.
2026-06-27: In further ‘if you can’t download and back your digital content up in a DRM free manner …
2026-06-25
Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns: Funnily enough its employees were not fans of ‘a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models’.
2026-06-14: Unsurprisingly the Online Safety Act hasn't stopped social media companies pushing dangerous content
2026-06-13: The Trump administration forces Anthropic to stop foreign nationals accessing its latest AI models
2026-06-06: On the grimmer side of Wikipedia entries I see there’s now an official page for ‘Deaths …
2026-05-30: Pure nerd in-joke perfection from @KyleTrainEmoji: PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! …
2026-05-30: Instagram quietly disables end-to-end encryption on your DMs
2026-05-27: Government department saves £ millions by replacing its Palantir IT system with an in-house one
2026-05-25: WhatsApp is being repeatedly sued alleging that it's lying about its end-to-end encryption
2026-05-17: The Open Rights Group's very comprehensive report on the importance of Digital Sovereignty
2026-05-16: Britain's dependence on US technology makes us vulnerable
2026-05-02: When my OneDrive sync started seemingly permanently destroying some of my files I was surprised to …
2026-05-02
2026-04-27
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys: ‘Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, “Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism?"’
2026-04-18
US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret: ‘legally questionable’
2026-04-09: Anthropic develops an AI model that is extremely good at finding and exploiting previously unknown security bugs in software
2026-04-08
AI-generated Lego videos and Trump’s poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars: ‘When it’s hard or impossible to identify trustworthy sources, you can choose to believe whatever you find comforting, invigorating or infuriating’.
2026-04-03: The British Home Secretary's lust for the panopticon
2026-03-29
2026-03-27
Four Steps to Hell: ‘…if you’re seeking the most influential aesthetic vision on the 21st century, this is it. It’s simple to describe–but it’s ugly as sin.’
2026-03-10: Noted 6 decades ago: '...extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people'