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Kate

@katebevan
126 posts
2024-10-28
As some of us have been saying since forever, QR codes are a proper threat, and the pandemic trained people to scan them without thinking https://www.ft.com/...
2024-10-28 View on X
Financial Times

Banks and regulators warn of a rise in QR code phishing scams, which experts say are most commonly deployed in emails to evade corporate cyber security filters

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times :

2024-09-14
UK Facebook users: remember to opt out of this shit. You should have had a notification about this: make sure you've acted on it.
2024-09-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta restarts training its AI systems on UK users' public Facebook and Instagram posts, having “incorporated regulatory feedback” to be “even more transparent”

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :

2024-08-25
Nobody wants a headset*. Stop trying to make the metaverse happen. (*I think there are some useful VR/AR use cases for industry, and also for entertainment, but ordinary normies aren't buying stupid headsets.)
2024-08-25 View on X
The Information

Sources: Meta cancels a premium MR headset codenamed La Jolla, in development since November, that was meant to debut in 2027 to compete with Apple's Vision Pro

Meta responds Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : Meta just canceled its Vision Pro competitor, reportedly it was too pricey to ‘sell well’ Asma Hussain / iThinkDifferent : Meta cancels V...

2024-08-24
Nobody wants a headset*. Stop trying to make the metaverse happen. (*I think there are some useful VR/AR use cases for industry, and also for entertainment, but ordinary normies aren't buying stupid headsets.)
2024-08-24 View on X
The Information

Sources: Meta cancels a premium MR headset codenamed La Jolla, in development since November, that was meant to debut in 2027 to compete with Apple's Vision Pro

Meta Platforms has canceled plans for a premium mixed-reality headset intended to compete with Apple's Vision Pro, according to two Meta employees.

2024-08-23
Nobody wants a headset*. Stop trying to make the metaverse happen. (*I think there are some useful VR/AR use cases for industry, and also for entertainment, but ordinary normies aren't buying stupid headsets.)
2024-08-23 View on X
The Information

Sources: Meta cancels plans for a premium headset, codenamed La Jolla and envisioned as a competitor to Apple's Vision Pro, after development began in November

Meta Platforms has canceled plans for a premium mixed-reality headset intended to compete with Apple's Vision Pro, according to two Meta employees.

2024-08-14
oh come on. All phones look the same anyway, and the camera bar on this is nothing like the iPhone cameras.
2024-08-14 View on X
9to5Google

Google announces the $799+ Google Pixel 9, with a Tensor G4 chip, a design with flat metal sides, a bigger 6.3" screen, and AI features, shipping from August 22

early discounts and what to expect Robby Payne / Chrome Unboxed : What you need to know about Google's new Pixel 9 phone lineup Anna Washenko / Engadget : Google's Pixel 9 series w...

oh come on. All phones look the same anyway, and the camera bar on this is nothing like the iPhone cameras.
2024-08-14 View on X
CNET

AT&T says it won't carry Google's new Pixel 9 Pro Fold, after selling the original Pixel Fold from 2023; the network will carry the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL

The second-generation Google foldable isn't heading to AT&T. The carrier told CNET that it will not be offering Google's newest Pixel Fold to its customers.

2024-05-13
I'm a journalist myself and am always reluctant to grumble about another journalist's work, but it's absolutely not fair to frame the evidence-based view as “another extreme”, as this otherwise good FT piece does https://www.ft.com/... [image]
2024-05-13 View on X
Financial Times

Researcher Sonia Livingstone says constraining tech companies and empowering young people and parents are better alternatives to banning kids from social media

Henry Mance / Financial Times : X: @soph_butch , @henrymance , @mollyroseorg , @henrymance , @cooksimon , @katebevan , @henrymance , @alecmuffett , @ciesiolkiewicz , @henrymance ,...

2024-05-09
Really hope Breakfast follows this up with a discussion panel of actual experts on age verification: policy experts, tech experts, privacy experts, AI experts, legal experts. Because it's a lot bloody harder to do in even a half-arsed way than these people think.
2024-05-09 View on X
BBC

Ofcom proposes new rules requiring tech companies to change their algorithms to hide “toxic” material from children, have more robust age checks, and more

It focuses on proposals for how internet services … Emma Martins : This draft Code is one of the first steps by Ofcom, UK independent communications regulator, in respect of its ne...

I have the most enormous sympathy for these families, who have lost children in horrendous ways. But bereaved families should be nowhere near policy-making. Policy must be evidence-based, not vibes-based.
2024-05-09 View on X
BBC

Ofcom proposes new rules requiring tech companies to change their algorithms to hide “toxic” material from children, have more robust age checks, and more

It focuses on proposals for how internet services … Emma Martins : This draft Code is one of the first steps by Ofcom, UK independent communications regulator, in respect of its ne...

2024-03-06
Well, I never did understand the point of the Android subsystem for Windows, not least because Google wasn't on board and it only offered the Amazon app store. Now even that is toast (just had this email). cc @zsk, among others [image]
2024-03-06 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft plans to end support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 on March 5, 2025, and consequently, end support for the Amazon Appstore on Windows too

no one will miss it Jason Bouwmeester / Techaeris : RIP Windows Subsystem for Android Don Reisinger / Tom's Guide : Windows 11 will stop supporting Android apps in 2025 - here's wh...

2024-02-24
Nobody wanted to pay for it, and nobody wants it for free.
2024-02-24 View on X
9to5Mac

X starts rolling out audio and video calling to all users, after previously limiting the feature to Premium subscribers; users can disable calling in settings

The social platform X introduced a new feature last year that lets users make and receive audio and video calls, just like apps such as FaceTime and WhatsApp.

2024-01-31
Zuckerberg of all people should know that age verification is a hard problem, and it's really cynical of him to call on the app stores to do it.
2024-01-31 View on X
Financial Times

Ahead of a US Senate hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for requiring Apple and Google to verify ages via app stores; Linda Yaccarino and Evan Spiegel support KOSA

Heads of Meta and X are among five social media chief executives to face Congress grilling  —  The chief executives of five …

2023-12-05
and this, my children, is why I don't do consumer DNA tests. Once your genetic data is out there, it's out there. You can't pull it back. And remember, if you do a DNA test, you're also uploading at least some of your family members' DNA too. https://techcrunch.com/...
2023-12-05 View on X
TechCrunch

23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts

https://arstechnica.com/... John / @obeto@mas.to : That's the problem with biometric PIIs: they cannot be changed if a breach occurs.  —  If, some of the victims work in sensitive ...

2023-11-29
This is interesting - I always thought this move into financial services was an odd move for Apple
2023-11-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Apple plans to exit its Goldman Sachs contract in 12 to 15 months, ending their consumer partnership, including for credit card and savings accounts

Tech giant proposed exiting contract in about 12-to-15 months  —  Apple is pulling the plug on its credit-card partnership with Goldman Sachs …

2023-11-23
My cynicism over this massive days-long clusterfuck is deeper than the deepest well.
2023-11-23 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC :...

My cynicism over this massive days-long clusterfuck is deeper than the deepest well.
2023-11-23 View on X
The Information

Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern

One day before he was fired by OpenAI's board last week, Sam Altman alluded to a recent technical advance the company …

2023-11-22
My cynicism over this massive days-long clusterfuck is deeper than the deepest well.
2023-11-22 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

2023-10-28
this is a really cool tinker with Dall-e 3 and a poke in the guts of it that really shows how prompt engineering is both technical and also deeply creative.
2023-10-28 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

How OpenAI uses ChatGPT prompt engineering to get around DALL-E 3's fundamental biases, discourage DALL-E 3 from recreating the work of living artists, and more

“Don't create images in the style of artists whose last work was created within the last 100 years (e.g. Picasso, Kahlo).  Artists whose last work was over 100 years ago are ok to ...

2023-10-26
“could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. We are a very, very long way off some kind of terrifying sci-fi AI future where the robots “slip the shackles of human control”, and Sunak should know that, not pander to these stupid tropes.
2023-10-26 View on X
Politico

A leaked copy of the UK's final AI Safety Summit communiqué does not mention a new scientific body to study AI risks, preferring existing collaborations instead