The Majority AI View: Perhaps there’s a silent majority who think that we should just treat it as a “normal technology”?
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2025-10-28: OpenAI estimate that a million people a week show suicidal intent when using ChatGPT
2025-10-26
2025-10-25
ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web: Bad UI, doesn’t actually let you see the web, and uses you as a way to snaffle up data it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds: “their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.”
2025-10-20: Talks I attended from New Scientist Live 2025
2025-08-21: Join in the Archive Team and help save at-risk online content into the Wayback Machine
2025-06-20: WhatsApp deploys advertising and accidentally leaks someone's personal information via its AI assistant
2025-05-20: The SingleFile extension lets you easily archive complete webpages
2025-04-23
RIP to the Google Privacy Sandbox: Third-party cookies will continue in Chrome.
2025-04-13: TIL: Microsoft Windows does not include country flag emojis. Somewhat unbelievable I only just …
2025-04-05
A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse: Money to help find and fix those sometimes-critical bugs.
2025-04-05: How to download and remove the DRM from your Kindle books even after the great download-via-USB shutdown
2025-03-29
2025-03-28
Napster Just Sold For $207 Million. Yes, That Napster. And It’s Headed Straight Into The Metaverse: Napster is not what is used to be.
2025-03-27
The 2025 journalist’s digital security checklist: Some good ideas in here even if you’re not a journalist.
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 ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings' setting of your Echo.
Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone right now?: It’s worth taking precautions, as a minimum.
Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers: Via tricking people into using the linked devices feature to devices they don’t own.
2025-03-26
As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them: The incredible work of the folk at the Internet Archive.
2025-03-23
What happens when the internet disappears?: For so many links, the internet is not forever.
2025-03-18
The World’s 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.
2025-03-14: Revealed: how the UK tech secretary Peter Kyle uses ChatGPT for policy advice. …
2025-03-13
2025-03-02: The Winterbreak exploit lets everyone jailbreak their Kindle