Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors: It’s stored without end-to-end encryption who-knows-where on Microsoft Azure that many employees can access
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2026-09-20: Person of Interest - an action sci-fi show from 15 years ago - raises questions about AI and surveillance we still need to urgently grapple with
2026-09-19: The Monevator blog summarises the darkly hilarious offer our big tech AI overlords incessantly …
2026-09-19: Rescue iTunes music from your iPhone by connecting it to Linux as thought it was a disk drive
2026-09-19
2026-09-16: Facebook is apparently experimenting with a ‘feature’ where, for some people at least, …
2026-09-06
2026-09-01: So ‘quietly’ has pushed its way through the ranks to be the word that I now most assume …
2026-09-01
Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England: ‘The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.’
Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs: ‘The plaintiffs claim they are victims of “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’
2026-08-29
Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day: ‘In many ways - no, actually, in every way - Hardcore IndieWeb mirrors the very same web publishing practices that were used in the 90s when the web was brand new.’
2026-08-27
AI is coming for your glasses: ‘Critics call it cringe stalkerware’, seems right, given Meta make them.
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.
2026-08-15
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 …