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https://www.theverge.com/news/693198/the-social-network-part-ii-aaron-sorkin-sony-facebook Some fans were delighted: some wary. The second album problem, the orbital l potential of a Godfather II. It could be a disaster, it could be a triumph. The producers were confident of course. They wouldn’t have gone ahead if they weren’t sure they were on for a hit.… Read the rest

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/ai_may_take_jobs_but/ He knew it was a serious meeting when he saw he was meeting the CEO Partner. You didn’t have a meeting with a human unless there was something important going on. It took him a moment to remember how human-to-human meetings worked, the conventions. He tried smiling. That clearly… Read the rest

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/us-house-reportedly-bans-whatsapp-on-government-devices-161557444.html She’d been here before. But she’d been a pupil on a school trip, visiting the seat of government, getting the tour. Now she was walking through the members’ entrance. She was new, keen to start work. But first she had her briefing from the party whip. Like generations before… Read the rest

https://digiday.com/marketing/cmos-say-ai-platforms-low-profile-at-cannes-wont-happen-again It was the first day back. The alcohol hangovers had eased but the team were still dealing with the effects. Some were energised, full of ideas and enthusiasm. That tended to be the younger attendees, first-timers. The older ones came into the office with a practiced cynicism. They’d had… Read the rest

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-ai-called-my-mother-abusive-i-never-said-that-2000618652 There are three of us in this relationship. Me, him and it. Some say I should just make it four and bring my own Agent home from work. Call me old fashioned, a luddite, but I want a break. I can function perfectly well without a hinge intern, tapping… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/anthropic-says-most-ai-models-not-just-claude-will-resort-to-blackmail/ It was one of the reasons I took the job. It was so much better than other offers. Alright, I only get to work with it while I’m there but I have my career, portfolio to think about. It had more awards over its hood than any. And it… Read the rest

https://spectrum.ieee.org/making-most-of-1-1s It’s Performance Review season. Of course we could automate it all. We have enough data, the buildings are smart enough but the company still wants us to have a “conversation”. So here I am, a day of meetings. The meetings with sole humans take the most time. They always… Read the rest

https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-as-socially-vital-as-water-and-energy-say-uk-execs The Government was reaching the end of the line. The public were angry. It was the cost of course, they were angry at foreign owners taking huge profits but they were also angry about the service. Every day there were stories on the feeds of the companies failing to… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/pro-israel-hacktivist-group-claims-reponsibility-for-alleged-iranian-bank-hack/ They didn’t have a “Born in the USA” anthem telling their story. But like generations of vets before them, they were ignored, rejected… and angry. They’d served their country in popular and unpopular wars, they’d kept their mouth shut about hidden wars, done things they couldn’t talk about. But… Read the rest

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-adds-generative-ai-to-nfl-scouting-app-in-latest-evolution-of-sports-tech-partnership/ It started as just fun. It soon became more serious. They said that it was him who’d wanted to make it a career. They’d pushed him off course. He had talent and they wanted to see him making the most of it. Wednesday evening practice soon became daily sessions.… Read the rest