break the rules not the laws
Today’s links A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement: Actual property rights are less important than the metaphorical property rights of “IP.”…
Welp, it turns out Amazon’s daring leap into the future of grocery shopping—y’know, the one where you grab what you want and stroll out like you own the place—was less…
Welp, it turns out Amazon’s daring leap into the future of grocery shopping—y’know, the one where you grab what you want and stroll out like you own the place—was less…
With artificial intelligence having already changed the way we work — or at least the way bosses think work should be done — for the worse, one computer scientist is…
Failing Grade A team of researchers at Facebook’s parent company Meta has come up with a new benchmark to gauge the abilities of AI assistants like OpenAI’s large language model…
The longtime privacy journalist on how investigating Clearview AI helped her appreciate facial recognition—and envision a chaotic futureFace Scanning and the Freedom To “Be Stupid In Public”: A Conversation with…
Do you remember when Apple first introduced its QR code scanning feature? You know, the one where you point your camera at a QR code, a bubble appears, and you…
Remember Tessa, the chatbot that was designed to help users combat disordered eating habits but ended up giving absolutely terrible, eating disorder-validating advice? Well, if the story wasn’t stupid enough already,…
All those cool widgets and embeds you like because they make your site “better”. You know the chatbox, Yelp reviews carousel, the fly-in Instagram embed that looks like a 90s…
A few Tweets aside, I haven’t said much about the metaverse. This is entirely because I think the metaverse as currently advertised is incredibly stupid. Some see a sort of…