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Earlier this week, John M. Burns, one of Britain’s great comic artists, whose work has thrilled and amazed for more than six decades, announced his retirement from comics. John M. Burns is, without a doubt, a legendary British comics creator. His extensive body of work across the last six decades and more has brought…
The LEGO Foundation to donate LEGO® MRI Scanners to hospitals globally
This story has been making the rounds on the internet with a claim that you’ve probably been told during visits to castles, but, there’s no evidence for it whatsoever. In short the idea…
As many of you will know from personal experience, there is a longstanding issue with VoiceOver on Mac where Safari may become unresponsive with VoiceOver repeatedly announcing the message “Safari not responding.” When this issue occurs, the user's Mac may become unusable for up to several minutes at a time. Sometimes…
The pharmaceutical industry leverages Washington’s culture of corruption to increase profits while everyday Americans suffer from high drug prices.
Whistleblower disclosures and investigative reporting have revealed a lot about what was happening—and what was known—inside Meta during the lead-up to the genocide in Myanmar, including a connection to a global wave of fake-page networks devoted to manipulation and political misinformation.
After a three-year break, the Chaos Computer Club will host its 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) from 27 December to 30 December 2023. We invite you to the CCH in Hamburg for Germany's most...
-------------- Update from 06/10/2023 : following my publication, I’ve been in contact with France Identité CISO and they could provide mo...
Breaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation
"We have nowhere else to go and Amazon knows it." The FTC and states are going after Amazon, largely for stopping merchants from offering discounts elsewhere.
So numerous brands are giving up on Threads by Instagram, allegedly due to lack of engagement (ironically, most of them are still using...
Hello family, friends and fans of Michael F. Flynn. It is with sorrow and regret that I inform you that my father passed away yesterday,...
The word “friends” has at least five different meanings: Allies Backstage intimates Fun friends Mutual interests friends Soc...
So, at the opening ceremonies of the Budapest International Book Festival this year, a couple of people gave prefatory remarks before I received the Budapest Grand Prize and participated in my own …
Researchers mined an old drug forum and fed the entries to an AI. The result could augur a new class of psychedelic-based antidepressants.
Raiding the Global South like a piggy bank.
The world needs computational social science, and it is not only, or even primarily, about the AI revolution. The reasons follow below and I also cover what a computational social scientist should …
What would it sound like if the musicians parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic sang *his* parodies instead? I jumped off the deep end into the world of A.I. cover songs to find out, and the results are even worse than you imagine.
State partisanship and COVID vaccination rates are strongly predictive of COVID death rates even once you account for age.
An acquisition gets weird.
The first in a series of posts on the Post Office Horizon prosecutions scandal
I’ve never trusted Facebook, mostly because I’ve been around tech for a long time and everything I’ve ever learned about the company looked like a red flag. But once I started to really dig in, what I learned was so much gnarlier and grosser and more devastating than what I’d assumed.
Just as Big Oil has used greenwashing to block environmental protections, Big Tech uses privacy washing to stand in the way of privacy.
It’s April Cools! It’s like April Fools, except instead of cringe comedy you make genuine content that’s different from your normal stuff.1 For example, last year I talked about owning a microscope. This year I debated doing another hobby but settled on a much dumber topic. Have you ever seen those lists of weird…
The Internet has a sustainability problem. Many of its critical services depend on the dedication of unpaid volunteers, because they can’t be monetized and thus don’t have any revenue stream for the maintainers to live on. Services like DNS, time synchronization, crypto libraries - software without which the net and…
There was a cultural divide in benshi preferences, rather like the difference in taste between those
The WGA's win may pave the way for more.
