Browsers from "A.I." companies? Now they can start constructing the panopticon to monetise the millions; all those NVIDIA chips and data centres don't come cheap, and investors need dividends.
Following Rishi Sunak and Nick Cleggs' move to advising tech companies, let's all wish Liz Truss well on her first day at Amazon Web Services.
Open Social - a nice explanation, with pictures, of how new open social protocols work, and why they're more 'webby'.
Best roast pork with crackling I've done in a while. The roast parsnips with chilli flakes were pretty tasty too. image
Anthropic stole the books I co-wrote in order to train their planet-burning hallucination machine, so I've filed a claim. They wept that if every plagiarised author does so, the company will go bankrupt. Boo emdash hoo. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people. image
Dear Labour Party - you don't neutralise the threat from Reform by adopting their policies or talking points. You do it by reducing inequality. Fascism doesn't flourish if people feel they're fairly recompensed, equally treated, well-fed and well-housed and their jobs are safe. So be more Labour.
"Former Meta user experience researcher Cayce Savage said the company shut down internal research showing Meta knew children were using its VR products and being exposed to sexually explicit material." https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-put-virtual-reality-profit-over-kids-safety-whistleblowers-tell-us-congress-2025-09-09/
Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".
Meta to stop its AI chatbots from talking to teens about suicide Yay? "It comes two weeks after a US senator launched an investigation into the tech giant after notes in a leaked internal document suggested its AI products could have "sensual" chats with teenagers." - if Meta were a person, no-one would let their kids anywhere near them.