No Right to Remain Silent: Negative Rights in a Positive-Rights World: ‘…the right to produce no data broadly doesn’t exist.’
Technology
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
2026-06-03: The economic benefits of Open Source software
2026-05-30: Pure nerd in-joke perfection from @KyleTrainEmoji: PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! …
2026-05-30: Instagram quietly disables end-to-end encryption on your DMs
2026-05-28: The pope has (very lengthy) thoughts on AI. I can’t pretend to have read it all yet, but the …
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 …
2026-05-02
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
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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.