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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 …

2026-05-02

UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence

2026-04-27

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys: ‘Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, “Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism?"’

2026-04-18

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret: ‘legally questionable’

2026-04-09: Anthropic develops an AI model that is extremely good at finding and exploiting previously unknown security bugs in software

2026-04-08

The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign: Turns out America isn’t the only country that can meme-war (to the detriment of the rest of us I’m certain).

2026-04-04

Maybe you should have bought an electric car: Electric cars have improved a lot since they came out and are much cheaper to run than petrol alternatives, even before the incredible price rises from the Iran conflict.

2026-04-03: The British Home Secretary's lust for the panopticon

2026-03-29

‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel: If only.

2026-03-27

Four Steps to Hell: ‘…if you’re seeking the most influential aesthetic vision on the 21st century, this is it. It’s simple to describe–but it’s ugly as sin.’

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 …

2026-03-20

Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute Reverberates in European Capitals: ‘It puts a very stark light on technological dependency and the need for some form of sovereignty, autonomy and control in Europe’.

2026-03-14

What do coders do after AI?: Somewhat depends on whether you like coding as a craft in itself or endure it as a means to an end.

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

2026-02-20

Accenture ‘links staff promotions to use of AI tools’

2026-02-19: Researchers find that using X's algorithm shifts people's political views to the right

2026-02-17

The left is missing out on AI: ‘…ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right.’

2026-02-16: How to archive even paid Substacks - converting them into an eBook