Bad tech

2025-04-09

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill: Why do I feel this won’t end well?

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

Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children

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

Damon Albarn, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and over 1,000 artists release silent album to protest UK copyright AI laws 

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

Spotify Hosts Trump Inauguration Brunch and Makes $150,000 Donation to Ceremony: Sigh.

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)