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https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext/careless-people-meta-mark-zuckerberg/ They needed to ‘flood the zone’. They couldn’t stop the publication. Their legal Agents were caught in never-ending rounds of black box litigation with the publisher’s Agents. Agents could be slow. In the meantime the feeds were full of extracts. The stories were becoming part of the landscape. He… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/a3753f62-1efc-4ca3-9934-47ab9994fa87 Someone should make an Agent setting for “exasperation”. It could have eyes that it could roll. It could be able to sigh and shake its “head”. I’m not stupid. I know my Agent isn’t human, can’t feel but it can do a good impersonation if it helps me. It… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/14/ai-coding-assistant-cursor-reportedly-tells-a-vibe-coder-to-write-his-own-damn-code/ The school was in a poorer area. Families could only afford ad-sponsored Agents, often older models. Staff regularly had to pause lessons as pupils waited for their Agent to finish its pitch before answering. The Headteacher had refused Partnerships, despite what that meant for budgets but something had to… Read the rest

https://thenextweb.com/news/alternative-apps-to-instagram-ai-slop-for-artists She opened the encrypted message. Yes it was a message – they weren’t luddites, just careful. The meeting was set for this evening. The location revealed, it wasn’t far this time. They moved each week. They probably didn’t need to but some members were paranoid: airgapping their neutered laptops,… Read the rest

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/13/airpods-live-translation-ios-19/ Breakfast had gone better than he’d feared. She seemed to understand his point and, to be fair, he got what she’d meant the previous evening. “Negotiations were ongoing,” you might say. He’d also managed to get through to Chris. Talking to a sulky teenager was not his forté, as… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/e6aef340-313b-483d-9a00-c1f4fc14df86 I suppose it’s a “start-up”. It’s a new business looking to do things differently so I suppose you could call it that. We never used the term because we didn’t like the techie connotations, the way people had that look when they heard the words. We didn’t have a… Read the rest

https://www.theverge.com/news/626851/tesla-takedown-protests-elon-musk It had been a status symbol, the company had become an icon, its founder a legendary figure. The fall from grace had been sudden and precipitous. When the protests started it became a faux pas to be seen with one. Constant memes. Other boycotts were now widespread. Those who… Read the rest

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2025/03/10/why-the-bbc-needs-fortnite-correspondent-and-what-brands-can-learn-it I always wanted to be a foreign correspondent. Travel. Live on my wits bluffing my way into areas of the country that are “off limits”, returning to the hotel to tell tales to the other hacks. I wanted to bring back stories: “To see Life; to see the world,”… Read the rest

https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2025/03/10/we-need-better-ways-measure-the-success-experiential-marketing They’d reached threshold. The level of discount the systems had set were right… of course. Enough people had agreed: the data was flowing. Those who’d refused were just anonymised footfall points on the smart walkways, their pace and pause stats adding to the real data from the band wearers.… Read the rest

https://gizmodo.com/what-to-know-about-bmws-futuristic-panoramic-vision-windshield-2000573324 He liked to drive. He could just sit back and let the car work its magic, but he liked the feel of the steering wheel, the pedals, the upright, attentive feel. He wasn’t really in control of course. The systems still ran the show, but he felt like he… Read the rest