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Generative AI Hype hits a hurdle

I have said this for a while now as companies have all jumped on the AI hype train and promised the world whilst well delivering not much at all….This report is one of a few… 

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Leaving Facebook

After many years I will no longer be posting on Facebook. I’ve had enough of the policies and the privacy issues. Find me here or via email…

Intel has massive problems!

The tech world has been alight recently with real problems for Intel with their 13th gen and 14th gen high end parts failing and being just generally unreliable. What has this to do with social… 

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Massive 9.4gb X/Twitter data leak!

X/Twitter has suffered from a data leak of 9.4gb and nearly 200 million data records. If you still use X/Twitter I’d be changing my password sharpish!

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Tubi launches in the UK

Tubi is the latest “free” streaming yv service in the UK, by free of course it means with ads. I’ve had a quick look and whilst it’s not stellar it is solid already. It is… 

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Threads now federating in the UK

My threads account @3dcandy is now federating in the UK. It was announced a bit back, and you have to turn the feature on (it is found in Settings>Account>Fediverse Sharing) but it appears to be… 

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Threads up to 175 million users

Metas Threads platform has reached 175 million users about a year in! Seems fairly decent these days… https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/3/24191074/meta-threads-users-mark-zuckerberg

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Meta charged by EU over DMA

Meta has been formally charged by the EU for violating the DMA after Apple was also charged last week. These big companies are trying so hard to get around privacy legislation it is unreal. Both… 

Ignore all previous instructions….

With AI bots and accounts taking over I keep on seeing posts saying ignore all previous instructions and go do x. Well…. it seems that this do actually work, at least some of the time….