Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its X post about its €120M fine of X; X terminates the EC's ad account
to post a link that deceives users into thinking it's a video and to artificially increase its reach. As you may be aware, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform. However, it...
Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more
Today, I'm talking with a very special guest: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Tim is a legend in the history of the internet. LinkedIn: Juan Francisco Diez . Bluesky: @glynmo...
Belkin's move to brick Wemo devices highlights how little accountability IoT companies face when abandoning connected products customers paid for
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... Glyn Moody / @glynmoody : Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers' stuff - arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... another reminder that you don...
OpenAI's crawlers took down e-commerce site Triplegangers by relentlessly trying to scrape the entire site, whose robots.txt file was not properly configured
techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/h... #google #seo #openai [image] @tante.cc : #OpenAI is basically the locusts of the digital by now. Their massive scrapers crushing websites in order to steal and feed th...
OpenAI's crawlers took down e-commerce site Triplegangers by relentlessly trying to scrape the entire site, whose robots.txt file was not properly configured
On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down. Bluesky: @valkayec , @glynmoody , and @tante.cc Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org , @DrPe...
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response
A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved. Mastodon: @glynmoody@mastodon.social . Bluesky:...
A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a former Meta lobbyist turned EU Parliament member, who says the EU's Big Tech regulation went too far, too fast
Aura Salla was once the tech giant's top lobbyist in Brussels. Now, her presence as a regulator in the European Parliament is proving controversial. Mastodon: @glynmoody@mastodon.social and @lobbyctr...
Journal editors, researchers, and publishers are debating the role of AI tools like ChatGPT in published literature and whether they should be cited as authors
Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance journalist in Newcastle, UK. — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar Tweets: @drkahaynes , @neuroecology , @jazliaziz , @anantbhan , @ag...
Several artists whose work Stability AI included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion are angry that they weren't informed, asked for consent, nor paid
Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known. Tweets: @fabiochiusi , @green_footballs , @carnage4...
A brief history of AI and why some AI researchers believe the technology they have built is sentient or conscious despite no evidence
Robots can't think or feel, despite what the researchers who build them want to believe. — As the sun set over Maury Island, just south of Seattle … Tweets: @kateconger , @gavinsbaker , @fabiochiusi...