Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI
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2026-09-16: Facebook is apparently experimenting with a ‘feature’ where, for some people at least, …
2026-09-07
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.
2026-07-19: Sadly, the critical concerns highlighted by the Person of Interest TV show seem quaint in today's world
2026-07-18: Buy a new monitor, get some adware for free
2026-07-16
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.
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