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...
Microsoft says it didn't stop services to the International Criminal Court, after a May report stated it “cancelled” ICC prosecutor Karim Khan's email address
Chief prosecutor's email issues have spurred fears in Europe that Trump could trigger a “kill switch” through U.S. tech giants abroad. Bluesky: @glynmoody , @marypcbuk , and @gateklons . Mastodon: @Go...
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...
A UN task force proposes taxing crypto mining to raise funds for climate action and cites IMF research that says $0.045 per kWh used could raise $5.2B annually
A tentative proposal to tax cryptocurrency mining to raise funds for climate action took off during a United Nations climate conference that's set to come to a close today. Bluesky: @glynmoody.bsky.so...
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...
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs detail AlphaFold 3, an AI model to predict interactions and structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, more, beating many top methods
DeepMind adds a diffusion engine to latest protein-folding software … Glyn Moody / @glynmoody@mastodon.social : AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life's molecules - https:/...