Bad tech

2024-09-27

Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network: Claims from last year that under Musk’s ‘leadership’ Twitter became indistinguishable from Parler or Truth Social.

Hate speech is soaring on Twitter under Elon Musk: Contra Musk’s claims, hate speech on Twitter reportedly increased after he took over.

2024-09-19: Now Hezbollah's walkie-talkies are exploding

2024-09-19

Walkie-talkie blasts: attacks on Hezbollah kill 20: The earlier exploding pager attack has been followed up with a similar attack via walkie-talkies.

2024-09-18: Remote cyber-attack on Hezbollah's pagers causes thousands of injuries and deaths

2024-09-18

Hundreds of pagers exploded in Lebanon and Syria in deadly attack: Seemingly a coordinated attack on Hezbollah via explosive pagers.

2024-09-07: Fake streamers listening to fake music by fake artists on Spotify allegedly made a single fraudster at least $10 million

2024-09-05: 📄 Reading the Pivot to AI blog.

2024-08-16: Gotta say, currently being in the midst of the outstanding book ‘The Age of Surveillance …

2024-08-14: Is there anything more ‘US politics in 2024’ than this? While the real Trump-Musk Space …

2024-08-10: The tech billionaires who at least used to be ashamed about their support for Trump

2024-08-04: I wasn’t wrong about the torment nexus AI plastic necklace company called ‘Friend’ …

2024-08-01: 📚 Finished reading The Future by Naomi Alderman.

2024-07-31: An AI company reinvents the concept of a 'friend'

2024-07-24: We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and …

2024-07-23: Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It Paul Ford writes entertainingly about generative …

2024-07-19: A bug in Crowdstrike's software breaks large swathes of the world

2024-07-19: No-one seems to sell cheap Linux laptops

2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'

2024-07-02: Last month Ticketmaster got hacked by a group known as ShinyHunters, the same group that previously …

2024-06-30: Microsoft accidentally leaks some of the source code behind their PlayReady DRM software. The …

2024-06-27: 404 reports that: Users of massively popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that …

2024-06-24: Another huge NHS data leak following a ransomware attack

2024-06-12: The cutting edge AI-bots couldn't say who won the 2020 US Presidential election

2024-05-19: In reassuring news, it turns out that the security code needed to get into the UK’s National …