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Amazon is expanding its palm-scanning payment system, Amazon One, to all Whole Foods locations across the United States. This innovative system, which was initially tested in select Seattle stores, allows…
Today’s links Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media: The final installment in my EFF series on saving the news. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.…
My latest for KnowTechie is a criticism of “grief tech,” the growing number of AI chatbots that are trained with data of deceased loved ones. These tools, almost all seem…
Many so-called grief tech startups are popping up. These companies promise the impossible, interactive digital immortality powered by AI. But using large language models to train AIs with the writings…
Today’s links How to save the news from Big Tech: Four prescriptions from EFF. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent…
An example of tings that are incredibly upsetting, but only surprising because of how normal they have became. How tech does regulatory capture My “favorite” example of horrible regulatory capture…
Today’s links How tech does regulatory capture: An extremely frank and open look inside the ugliest of sausage-factories. Red Team Blues Chapter One, part two: How Danny Lazer came back…
I respect Cory Doctorow a lot. I just read his article Twiddler from February discussing what he calls the “enshittification” of tech. He lays out a lot of good points,…
Expand IT Founder Nima Momeni has been arrested by San Francisco-area police in connection with the April 4, 2023, murder of CashApp Founder and Block CTO Bob Lee. Mission Local…
Talk about a change of heart. Just days after tweeting that tech designed to emulate dead loved ones would be available to the “masses” by the end of the year,…