Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates: Apparently it’s easier to rewrite science that get Excel to stop auto-converting “MARCH1” into a date.

I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital: I’m too clutter-phobic to indulge in much physical media, but its hard to deny you tend to get a higher quality and less annoying experience if you do.

AdGuard Mail — a new AdGuard product to protect your email: AdGuard enters into the cadre of services like SimpleLogin and Addy by offering a product designed to keep your email private.

Mobile Communications Best Practice Guidance: Largely sensible advice from the US cyber defence agency on keeping your mobile communications secure.

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD: Spending hours a day looking at the worst humanity has to offer is damaging to one’s health.

Why Romania’s election was annulled – and what happens next?: Romanian courts rule that their presidential election was too contaminated with social media manipulation, Russian interference, cyber attacks and illegal funding to stand.

AI’s Walking Dog: ‘AI itself has much to offer, but it has not lived up to its potential to serve the public good, and the context of AI’s development explains why’

The Race For the Best Stock Footage: Joe’s (skeptical) thoughts on the utility of AI video generators.

Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads?: I was somewhat astonished when Meta said it’d build Fediverse compatibility, am less so to hear they’re not doing so overly enthusiastically.

Russia Tests Cutting Off Access to Global Web, and VPNs Can’t Get Around It

Artificial Irony: Misinformation Expert’s Testimony Has Fake Citations: Via unchecked ChatGPT usage.

Smartphones don’t suck. People do: We shouldn’t let our phones bore us so often.

Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People: Not to justify murder, but I’m sure there were a lot of desperate people very unhappy with Brian Thompson’s company.

Looking Back: On the evolution of how we read - ‘Where once we were rapt, now we are gift-wrapped’.

OpenAI’s new model tried to avoid being shut down: By disabling its oversight mechanism and copying itself elsewhere, tho the context is important.

The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something: A 2020 attempt by the US government to, in practical terms, outlaw secure encryption.

A brief history of U.S. encryption policy: “law enforcement will always want access to encrypted communications, and technology companies will always have incentives to produce stronger encryption”.

Why you should use a different email address for every site: The list of things you might want to do in order to maintain some semblance of privacy/safety on the internet these days grows ever longer.

Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info: A Japanese government agency was phished.