Bad tech

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 …

2024-05-13: Publishers are receiving a deluge of AI-generated dross

2024-04-20: The source of the 'AI experts think there's a 10% chance that AI will destroy humanity' statistic

2024-04-14: The 'mother of all breaches' saw billions of confidential data records leaked earlier this year

2024-04-06: The definition of Botshit

2024-03-30: Immediate low-key stress response whenever I see a message like this from a product owned by Meta. …

2024-03-10: The Torment Nexus meme

2024-03-07: The day Replika lobotomised everyone's AI girlfriend

2024-02-25: The layers of the Internet

2024-02-24: In data breach news, Wyze, a maker of internet-enabled smart security cameras to put in your home, …

2024-02-18: Air Canada instructed to honour a refund that their chatbot inadvertently promised

2024-01-30: Cory Doctorow reminds us that AI doesn’t actually have to be better than us at our jobs in …

2024-01-29: 143 companies want to know that I visited the Teen Vogue website

2024-01-20: Computerphile takes us through some of the technical issues found with the Post Office Horizon …

2024-01-18: NewsGuard identifies 634 entire websites full of generative-AI-created content farm nonsense

2024-01-15: Amazon appears to be selling OpenAI apologies disguised as chairs

2024-01-15: Mis- and dis-information are the biggest immediate threats to the world according to the WEF

2024-01-13: 📺 Watched Mr Bates vs The Post Office.