Technology

2024-09-11: Save videos, photos and audio from your favourite sites with Cobalt

2024-09-06: A friend gets in touch to let me know that it’s not necessarily scary AI cyber-brains that are …

2024-09-01: Telegram is only end-to-end encrypted if you solely use 'secret chats'

2024-08-26: Ibrahim Al-Nasser has officially set a new world record for how many video games consoles anyone has …

2024-08-16: Gotta say, currently being in the midst of the outstanding book ‘The Age of Surveillance …

2024-08-04: I wasn’t wrong about the torment nexus AI plastic necklace company called ‘Friend’ …

2024-08-01: 📚 Finished reading The Future by Naomi Alderman.

2024-07-31: An AI company reinvents the concept of a 'friend'

2024-07-24: We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and …

2024-07-23: Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It Paul Ford writes entertainingly about generative …

2024-07-19: A bug in Crowdstrike's software breaks large swathes of the world

2024-07-19: No-one seems to sell cheap Linux laptops

2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'

2024-06-27: 404 reports that: Users of massively popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that …

2024-06-26: free-for.dev is a great list of free-tier cloud service tools for developers

2024-06-08: A calculator to quickly compare the energy costs of using different types of appliances

2024-05-09: 📺 (Re)watching Westworld.

2024-05-06: Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs now has a AI-generated 'digital person' as a spokesperson

2024-05-02: Happy 50th birthday to SQL! Structured Query Language is an incredibly popular computer language …

2024-03-13: Figure is putting ChatGPT brains into humanoid bodies

2023-12-29: Some books about Artificial Intelligence I'd like to read - updated

2022-12-12: Cookie paywalls: would you pay money to not be tracked on the web?

2022-06-22: Check how a website is tracking you with the Blacklight service

2022-06-19: See how trackable your web browsing is with the Cover Your Tracks service

2022-05-16: Some longer-form thoughts on the Roe v Wade leak with relevance to data privacy. Honestly, however …