Once again Meta is touting subscriptions with extra services available for those that pay. However it also appears that Meta will enshittify its services as well because it only says that “core” services will remain free. So what does this actually mean? Well I can tell you what this means is that Facebook/Threads and Instagram… Meta (again) to try subscription services

Another day, another huge data breach. Please keep changing passwords or use a password manager or something otherwise you are likely to be hacked. It is a common behaviour and I can only see it getting worse! https://www.wired.com/story/149-million-stolen-usernames-passwords Views: 9

I knew this was coming, and it has, to be frank, taken longer than I thought it would. The UK Government has announced that it is going to start a consultation on banning social media use for under 16’s. More worrying for me is that the government said that it expected schools to become phone… UK Government announces consultation on under 16’s social media ban

That was quick – the UK is making it illegal to make non-consensual intimate images, like those that Grok was being used to make. That pretty much means that unless things change Grok will be banned in the UK and with it probably X as well. The VPN companies will be loving this as a… UK brings law into force this week to combat Grok deepfakes….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy875j28k0o After a lot of debate it appears that the Ofcom is after Grok for creating content that is against the OSA (Online Safety Act) and to be fair as far as I can see this is going to get messy – more so for X and Elon Musk than anybody else. I cannot see… Ofcom investigating Grok/X in the UK