UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill: Why do I feel this won’t end well?
Bad tech
2025-04-09
2025-04-06
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams : ‘Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.’
2025-03-29
2025-03-27
Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances: Fixed but admins would need to update.
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28: They’re disabling the ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings' setting of your Echo.
2025-03-18
The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: Big tech will start mistreating its programmers as much as its warehouse workers the minute it can get away with it.
The World’s Most Invasive Apps: I’m not particularly convinced by the methodology, but, even so, hardly a surprise Meta apps come out as particularly terrible for keeping your personal data private.
2025-03-16: 📚 Want to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. …exposes both the personal and …
2025-02-26: Deezer receives 10k AI-generated music tracks per day, artists aren't happy
2025-02-26
2025-02-24: More Musk censorship - his Grok AI was was programmed to explicitly ignore all evidence that he or Trump spread disinformation
2025-02-17: Apparently former free-speech-absolutist (lol), encrypted-messenger-app-Signal recommending Elon …
2025-02-16
Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests: Amongst those from other regimes, autocratic and otherwise.
2025-02-15
Never Forgive Them: A long and eviscerating read from Ed Zitron on how and why the tech industry is making our lives substantially worse than they need to be - basically their incentives are no longer aligned with us, their users.
2025-02-11
More Than 800K Have Lost $2B on Trump’s Meme Coin: He, of course, profited vociferously.
2025-02-11: The incessant infusion of relentless advertising continues. Imagine coming to a stop in your prize …
2025-02-09: Statista visualises some data from Duetti’s pretty interesting 2024 Music Economics Report. …
2025-02-06: Zuckerberg hands over another $25 million to Trump
2025-02-02
DeepSeek Fails Researchers' Safety Tests: The hot new AI bot appears to be up for discussing pretty much anything, irrespective of harm.
‘I lost 10 years of my life’: how UK betting giant’s unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked: A particularly dark example of the perils of letting companies surveil, extract and exploit the trail of data modern life requires we generate.
2025-02-01: 📺 Watched Grieving Mother: AI was the Stranger in my Home.
2025-01-26: Spotify joins the inauspicious ranks of companies that funded Trump's inauguration
2025-01-26
2025-01-25
Björk Says Spotify Is “The Worst Thing That Has Happened To Musicians”: ‘The streaming culture has changed an entire society and an entire generation of artists.’
2025-01-24: Trumpian legislation via LLMs (we should be so lucky)