The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case: ‘Facebook is being watched, and it cannot be as cavalier about its efforts to monopolize markets.’
Bad tech
2025-05-11: 'Almost everything in the digital world is turning into its opposite'
2025-04-24
2025-04-21
Parents must make tough choices on smartphones, says childrenâs commissioner for England: ‘As adults we are ourselves dopamine-addicted, stuck in a cycle of scrolling yet we still have no idea of what our children are seeing.’
2025-04-19
Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools: ‘A rise in misogyny and racism is flooding UK schools as pupils ape the behaviour of figures such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate after exposure through social media and online gaming, teachers have warned.’
2025-04-16: And now she wants to start her own social network. Yes, Liz Truss stood up at a crypto conference - âŚ
2025-04-15
She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said: Is your cab listening to you?
2025-04-09
UK creating âmurder predictionâ tool to identify people most likely to kill: Why do I feel this won’t end well?
2025-04-06
âProfiting from miseryâ: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams : ‘Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.’
2025-03-29
2025-03-27
Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances: Fixed but admins would need to update.
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28: They’re disabling the âDo Not Send Voice Recordings' setting of your Echo.
2025-03-18
The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: Big tech will start mistreating its programmers as much as its warehouse workers the minute it can get away with it.
The Worldâs Most Invasive Apps: I’m not particularly convinced by the methodology, but, even so, hardly a surprise Meta apps come out as particularly terrible for keeping your personal data private.
2025-03-16: đ Want to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. …exposes both the personal and âŚ
2025-02-26: Deezer receives 10k AI-generated music tracks per day, artists aren't happy
2025-02-26
2025-02-24: More Musk censorship - his Grok AI was was programmed to explicitly ignore all evidence that he or Trump spread disinformation
2025-02-17: Apparently former free-speech-absolutist (lol), encrypted-messenger-app-Signal recommending Elon âŚ
2025-02-16
Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and Chinaâs censorship requests: Amongst those from other regimes, autocratic and otherwise.
2025-02-15
Never Forgive Them: A long and eviscerating read from Ed Zitron on how and why the tech industry is making our lives substantially worse than they need to be - basically their incentives are no longer aligned with us, their users.
2025-02-11
More Than 800K Have Lost $2B on Trumpâs Meme Coin: He, of course, profited vociferously.
2025-02-11: The incessant infusion of relentless advertising continues. Imagine coming to a stop in your prize âŚ
2025-02-09: Statista visualises some data from Duetti’s pretty interesting 2024 Music Economics Report. âŚ
2025-02-06: Zuckerberg hands over another $25 million to Trump
2025-02-02
DeepSeek Fails Researchers' Safety Tests: The hot new AI bot appears to be up for discussing pretty much anything, irrespective of harm.