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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
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
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
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