Bad tech

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 …

2023-07-11: It’s increasingly apparent that relying on the ability to reliably access or even link to …

2023-07-11: The 'Redact' app lets you delete all those social media posts that you regret writing

2023-07-08: Twitter’s whims can break other sites too

2022-06-22: Check how a website is tracking you with the Blacklight service

2022-06-19: See how trackable your web browsing is with the Cover Your Tracks service

2022-05-16: Some longer-form thoughts on the Roe v Wade leak with relevance to data privacy. Honestly, however …