AI is coming for your glasses: ‘Critics call it cringe stalkerware’, seems right, given Meta make them.
Technology
2026-08-27
Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn: ‘…changes included time limits, stopping notifications during school, a block on the app during critical overnight hours, bans on plastic surgery filters and more.’
2026-08-24: Our critical infrastructure seems increasingly subject to effective cyber attacks.
2026-08-16
2026-08-15: Bad Blood tells the story of Theranos, one of the biggest Silicon Valley scams of all time
2026-08-15: Setting up Yubikeys in Linux
2026-08-12
Mark Zuckerberg is back, and still talking bollocks about AI: It’s almost like these tech bro billionaires aren’t actually geniuses.
2026-08-01
2026-07-30
Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog: This is clever, especially if most of your audience uses Bluesky.
2026-07-28: Most Internet traffic is now 'non-human'
2026-07-19: Yet another 'you can't trust cloud services with your data' example, Microsoft edition.
2026-07-19: Sadly, the critical concerns highlighted by the Person of Interest TV show seem quaint in today's world
2026-07-18: Buy a new monitor, get some adware for free
2026-07-09: The UK is currently undergoing its third heatwave in as many months. Given we have such a low …
2026-07-04
UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears: ‘The average parent or carer does not post a picture of a child online thinking that it might be scraped to be turned into CSAM’.
2026-06-25
Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns: Funnily enough its employees were not fans of ‘a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models’.
AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption: Seems a decent use of AI if accurate - the doc was all about Stoic philosophy.
2026-06-17
France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider: A wise move that needs to happen elsewhere too.
2026-06-14: Unsurprisingly the Online Safety Act hasn't stopped social media companies pushing dangerous content
2026-06-13: The Trump administration forces Anthropic to stop foreign nationals accessing its latest AI models
2026-06-13: Dark Mirror retells the Edward Snowden story from a journalist's viewpoint
2026-06-07: DocFetcher is a great multi-OS application for searching through vast tranches of your files
2026-06-06: On the grimmer side of Wikipedia entries I see there’s now an official page for ‘Deaths …
2026-06-06
No Right to Remain Silent: Negative Rights in a Positive-Rights World: ‘…the right to produce no data broadly doesn’t exist.’