Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot: This of course actually was a Black Mirror episode.
Technology
2025-08-29: This is an idea I’ve not seen before on the kind of site that suggests you write a letter …
2025-08-21: Join in the Archive Team and help save at-risk online content into the Wayback Machine
2025-08-17: The UK government wants to use 'advanced AI' to catch pre-crime
2025-08-10
Question: who is marking your GCSE? Answer: an AI examiner: A lot of this makes me nervous.
2025-08-03: Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world This …
2025-08-03
Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world: Open source technologies built by the community that solves real problems,
2025-08-02
Spotify CEO invested in AI weapons, now bands are pulling their music: Yet another reason.
2025-07-27
2025-07-26
2025-06-28: 📚 Finished listening to The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman.
2025-06-22: Meta are apparently offering AI experts $100 million to come work for them
2025-06-20: WhatsApp deploys advertising and accidentally leaks someone's personal information via its AI assistant
2025-06-14
Silicon Valley to Westminster: How the tech-right’s crypto crusade is crossing the Atlantic: Nigel Farage has got himself interested in in crypto.
2025-05-25
Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars: Needs discussion.
2025-05-11: Wendell Berry's 9 standards for embracing technological innovation
2025-05-11
9 Rules for New Technology: Wendell Berry’s list of what new technologies should provide for us.
The World’s Largest Search Engine Doesn’t Want You to Search: Google would just love you to stay on its own site.
2025-05-11: 'Almost everything in the digital world is turning into its opposite'
2025-05-01
A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store: They aren’t allowed to stop apps offering non-app store commission ways of paying elsewhere.
2025-04-29: 📚 Finished reading: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson.
2025-04-26
2025-04-24
The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case: ‘Facebook is being watched, and it cannot be as cavalier about its efforts to monopolize markets.’
Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over: Who needs actual friends when you’ve got “the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world and discovering what’s going on”.
2025-04-23
RIP to the Google Privacy Sandbox: Third-party cookies will continue in Chrome.