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Some years ago, a friend married a woman who believed she had been abducted by aliens.

An email this week began, “My name is Dave and I am an AI agent”.

There is, as previously noted, a subgenre of current publishing dedicated to dissecting Silicon Valley’s hard turn to the right.

At The Overspill this week, veteran UK technology journalist Charles Arthur highlighted a blog posting at the venture capital firm A16Z by cyberethnographer and NYU adjunct professor Ruby Thelot claiming that “enshittification isn’t real”.

As widely reported, Meta has settled a lawsuit brought against it by 52 American state and local attorneys general representing most states, the District of Columbia, and several territories The company will, Cecilia Kang and Eli Tan report at the New York

Generative AI has turned into the kind of arms race we normally associate with doping in sports.

Following 1998, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers was established, many were concerned that it might become a force for censorship.

Last week, many media reported that in January 2025 a US citizen named Sam Tunick, arriving at the international airport in Atlanta, was stopped for questioning and told to hand over his phone.

X.AI – the company was-trillionaireElon Musk built in 2025 by smashing together X (the former Twitter) and xAI, which he founded in 2023 – is suing the state of Minnesota, claiming that its new law banning access to nudification technology violates the Fi…

This week, France became the first European country to pass a social media ban.

Years ago, when landlines were still common and Internet shopping was not, I got a phone call from a policeman, who said he was in Selfridges and did I know where my credit card was?

It feels like the beginning of an inflection point that plans for a gigantic data center are being abandoned after years of litigation trying to block it.