The left is missing out on AI: ‘…ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right.’
Computing
2026-05-30: Instagram quietly disables end-to-end encryption on your DMs
2026-05-27: Government department saves £ millions by replacing its Palantir IT system with an in-house one
2026-05-25: WhatsApp is being repeatedly sued alleging that it's lying about its end-to-end encryption
2026-05-17: The Open Rights Group's very comprehensive report on the importance of Digital Sovereignty
2026-05-16: Britain's dependence on US technology makes us vulnerable
2026-05-02: When my OneDrive sync started seemingly permanently destroying some of my files I was surprised to …
2026-04-22: Making an external monitor connected via a hub work in Linux Mint
2026-04-17: How to (re)move Windows 11's supposedly 'unmovable' files in order to shrink its disk partition
2026-04-09: Anthropic develops an AI model that is extremely good at finding and exploiting previously unknown security bugs in software
2026-03-22: The 'OSINT Techniques' book is surely the bible for all things Open Source Intelligence
2026-03-22: 📚 Finished reading Cult of the Dead Cow How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the …
2026-03-10: Noted 6 decades ago: '...extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people'
2026-03-08: One reason LLMs hallucinate is because we incentivise them to give any answer over saying they don't know
2026-03-04: A GUI for the Substack archiving process
2026-02-25: The inventor of the world wide web implores us to remember that 'This Is For Everyone'
2026-02-21: Companies are trying to force their employees to use generative AI
2026-02-19: Researchers find that using X's algorithm shifts people's political views to the right
2026-02-17
2026-02-16: How to archive even paid Substacks - converting them into an eBook
2026-02-10
Stop generating, start thinking: Arguments against letting Claude Code et al just blindly do your whole job for you.
2026-02-08: Where to view and download the recently released 'Epstein files'
2026-01-29
Phantom Obligation: ‘The guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do.’, and how software design can exacerbate it.
2026-01-11: It looks like some clever coders have figured out how to remove DRM from newer Kindle books now. …
2025-12-31
When Online Content Disappears: On link-rot - ‘A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible’
2025-12-28
Okay, so age verification is pretty painless. It’s still not a good thing. At all.: ‘It doesn’t work. It’s intrusive. It creates new vulnerabilities.’