Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided “Zero Financial Payoff” to Companies Outside Tech
Technology
2026-10-27
2026-10-27: Taking up smoking as an act of faith in AI is obviously stupid if it's real
āDigital hostile environmentā: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims: ‘The report, titled Automated Discrimination: Unpacking the Digital Hostile Environment, raises concerns about the use of AI in immigration, saying it is not neutral or accurate and can replicate bias and discrimination within society, particularly when a key driver for its use is anti-immigration policies and rhetoric.’
2026-10-21
2026-10-19: The most paranoid conspiracy theories of the programmatic-advert blocking crowd naturally turn out to be the reality of what's going on
2026-10-15: Talks I attended from New Scientist Live 2026
2026-10-04: 'Empire of AI' - artificial intelligence as an imperialist project
2026-10-04
Meet the āburglarsā paid to break into businesses: ‘As cyber-defences improve, physical entry to premises is emerging as one of the best ways to hack into systems.’
2026-09-29
2026-09-26
Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit: ‘Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a āparadise of machinesā’
2026-09-23
2026-09-22
Google fined more than ā¬400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data: A well-deserved outcome for a company that ‘used “various tricks” to ensure location history and web and app activity were enabled’.
2026-09-20: Person of Interest - an action sci-fi show from 15 years ago - raises questions about AI and surveillance we still need to urgently grapple with
2026-09-19: The Monevator blog summarises the darkly hilarious offer our big tech AI overlords incessantly ā¦
2026-09-19: Rescue iTunes music from your iPhone by connecting it to Linux as thought it was a disk drive
2026-09-19
Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ācompromiseā by US government and foreign actors: It’s stored without end-to-end encryption who-knows-where on Microsoft Azure that many employees can access
2026-09-16: Facebook is apparently experimenting with a ‘feature’ where, for some people at least, ā¦
2026-09-06
2026-09-01: So ‘quietly’ has pushed its way through the ranks to be the word that I now most assume ā¦
2026-09-01
Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England: ‘The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.’
Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ātens of thousandsā of songs: ‘The plaintiffs claim they are victims of “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’
2026-08-29
Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day: ‘In many ways - no, actually, in every way - Hardcore IndieWeb mirrors the very same web publishing practices that were used in the 90s when the web was brand new.’