Bad tech

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.

2023-12-29: Unsurprisingly, ChatGPT and its ilk are finding their way into providing direct customer service for …

2023-12-08: Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator I don’t …

2023-12-05: The last of the big tech giants recently released its version of a large language model generative …

2023-11-26: In 2019 OpenAI was too scared to open GPT-2 to the world

2023-11-20: Facebook permanently disabled my account, no right of appeal

2023-11-13: Arcade claw machines are even more scammy than I thought

2023-11-12: The deleterious effects of bad business models, incentives and AI on music streaming services

2023-10-21: 🎙️ Listening to The Ezra Klein Show podcast episode “Why A.I.

2023-09-27: Amazon now charges third-party sellers almost half of their revenue

2023-09-16: Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil …

2023-09-05: More data leaks

2023-08-21: Twitter's habit of deleting or undeleting your posts at will

2023-08-09: From PC Magazine: For 16 years, Jeremy Vaught had control of the @music account on Twitter. But no …

2023-08-08: Turns out the UK’s Electoral Commission has been hacked for the past couple of years. At the …

2023-08-07: The call of Linux

2023-07-24: WormGPT is an AI chatbot designed to help commit crime

2023-07-20: Terrible AI-written books hit the Kindle Unlimited best-seller lists

2023-07-18: Following some big companies such as Samsung banning or putting limits on their employees' use of …