Claude will tell you how to manipulate an election: via a classic multi-turn jailbreak.
Bad tech
2026-10-27
2026-10-24: The UK's online safety laws have entirely failed to protect children from disgraceful social media content
2026-10-21
2026-10-19: The most paranoid conspiracy theories of the programmatic-advert blocking crowd naturally turn out to be the reality of what's going on
2026-10-04: 'Empire of AI' - artificial intelligence as an imperialist project
2026-09-29
What If We Just Stopped?: ‘…there has to be a better way of connecting and sharing and existing together, a way that isn’t locked into the exploitative doom loops and psychic death of what we currently have.’
2026-09-23
2026-09-22
Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data: A well-deserved outcome for a company that ‘used “various tricks” to ensure location history and web and app activity were enabled’.
2026-09-20: Person of Interest - an action sci-fi show from 15 years ago - raises questions about AI and surveillance we still need to urgently grapple with
2026-09-19: The Monevator blog summarises the darkly hilarious offer our big tech AI overlords incessantly …
2026-09-19
Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors: It’s stored without end-to-end encryption who-knows-where on Microsoft Azure that many employees can access
2026-09-16: Facebook is apparently experimenting with a ‘feature’ where, for some people at least, …
2026-09-06
2026-09-01
Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England: ‘The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.’
Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs: ‘The plaintiffs claim they are victims of “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’
2026-08-27
AI is coming for your glasses: ‘Critics call it cringe stalkerware’, seems right, given Meta make them.
Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn: ‘…changes included time limits, stopping notifications during school, a block on the app during critical overnight hours, bans on plastic surgery filters and more.’
2026-08-24: Our critical infrastructure seems increasingly subject to effective cyber attacks.
2026-08-15: Bad Blood tells the story of Theranos, one of the biggest Silicon Valley scams of all time
2026-08-01
2026-07-28: Most Internet traffic is now 'non-human'
2026-07-19: Yet another 'you can't trust cloud services with your data' example, Microsoft edition.