Technology

2025-03-27

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances: Fixed but admins would need to update.

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28: They’re disabling the ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings' setting of your Echo.

Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone right now?: It’s worth taking precautions, as a minimum.

Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers: Via tricking people into using the linked devices feature to devices they don’t own.

2025-03-26

As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them: The incredible work of the folk at the Internet Archive.

2025-03-24

Trump administration’s blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher: insomuch as no one can possibly think of what adding $TRUMP memecoins to the system could possibly do to help the beleaguered.

2025-03-23

What happens when the internet disappears?: For so many links, the internet is not forever.

2025-03-19

Have humans passed peak brain power?: ‘Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning’.

2025-03-18

The World’s Most Invasive Apps: I’m not particularly convinced by the methodology, but, even so, hardly a surprise Meta apps come out as particularly terrible for keeping your personal data private.

2025-03-15: AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead. Uh-oh, either …

2025-03-14: Revealed: how the UK tech secretary Peter Kyle uses ChatGPT for policy advice. …

2025-03-10: OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’ …

2025-03-10: Sisyphus 55 onthe relationship between the modern-day internet and Carl Jung’s notion of …

2025-03-02: The Winterbreak exploit lets everyone jailbreak their Kindle

2025-02-27

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds: ‘…it is very scary to make yourself 100% dependent on the goodwill of the American government merely because it is convenient’

Automattic’s “nuclear war” over WordPress access sparks potential class action

2025-02-26: Deezer receives 10k AI-generated music tracks per day, artists aren't happy

2025-02-26

Damon Albarn, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and over 1,000 artists release silent album to protest UK copyright AI laws 

2025-02-26: ‘Everybody is looking at their phones,’ says man freed after 30 years in prison I mean, …

2025-02-24: More Musk censorship - his Grok AI was was programmed to explicitly ignore all evidence that he or Trump spread disinformation

2025-02-16

Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests: Amongst those from other regimes, autocratic and otherwise.

2025-02-15

Never Forgive Them: A long and eviscerating read from Ed Zitron on how and why the tech industry is making our lives substantially worse than they need to be - basically their incentives are no longer aligned with us, their users.

2025-02-12

Is it okay?: Robin Sloan considers the ethics of generative AI models needing to slurp up the entirety of the internet to exist.

2025-02-11: The incessant infusion of relentless advertising continues. Imagine coming to a stop in your prize …

2025-02-07

Is OpenAI’s Operator, a new AI ‘agent,’ ready to help in the real world?: A reporter’s very expensive AI inadvertently buys them very expensive eggs.