This is going to happen I think as regulators clamp down on the walled garden approach. I imagine that Apple users will start to lose features in the UK like they have in the EU… Apple may be forced to allow different app stores in the UK
Again a big tech company does something that I can’t imagine ANY users really want or need. Youtube will soon enable autodubbing on videos new and then old, replacing dialogue with translations by AI. I’m… Youtube AI dubbing features being enabled by default!
I have talked about this many times, simply because AI is so fraught to dangers and criticisms and for a lot of things it can be just plain wrong (we have all seen the AI… Warnings the AI bubble might burst are growing…
Just as I and many have said, Discord has been hacked for government ids and data directly because of the Online Safety Act. This was inevitable and raises for worries for a badly written and… Discord hacked as a result of the OSA
I have been arguing this very point for years, and this article which is a good read (though on The Guardian) is worth a read to explain what, how and why internet services continue to… Enshittification – an article by the author of the phrase
In a bold move Meta has been ordered to change the options for displaying the timeline by a Dutch court to allow simpler and timelines free from algorithms. Of course Meta has appealed but this… Dutch court orders Meta to change Facebook and Instagram timelines
An interesting read here about AI and how it already appears that scaling limits are being reached and adoption is actually decreasing… I think it is safe to say to Ai isn’t the magic bullet… How bad is the AI bubble?
I have been saying for years that this would be coming and it is – and I still stand by that after a while you will have to have a subscription to be seen on… Facebook and Instagram get UK £2.99 a month subscription to remove ads!
Starting from 30th September imgur the media hosting site responsible for a lot of memes has been blocked in the UK because of the Online Safety Act. I am starting to see a lot of… IMGUR blocked in the UK
Now for a bit of context this IS a BBC report so do take it with a pinch of salt, but parents out there doing their best to share as much as they can about… Why “sharenting” is bad…