"Hey Google, 20 minute countdown" "OK, playing Anaconda by Nicki Minaj on Spotify" We've bet the entire economy on this.

Eldest son had a school trip to Alton Towers today, where he has learned that Alton Towers is mostly about queuing for an hour and then finding the ride you were waiting for gets temporarily closed before you managed to get on it. And repeat. I guess it was a school day after all.

The Met Office solved this problem late last year by making their app completely unusable for anything.

More love for Event Horizon in these Sam Neill obituaries please.

FIFA wants the an event on the scale of the Olympics. I'm fully expecting the next story to be that the WC is going to have multiple disciplines: 5 a side, street football, futsal... I'm a little surprised they haven't tried it already.

Sick of English journalists' desperation for Bellingham to get sent off or have a bust up with Tuchel so they'll have their fall guy. We've got one of the top five midfielders in the world, try to enjoy it.

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

It turns out Trump didn't understand it.

They were *supposed* to declare an immediate ceasefire and give Trump half a billion dollars each + the Nobel Peace prize. People can be so difficult sometimes.

"Do we want leaders who know how to make money"? Well, not when they get it from people who call you daddy and write books called 'How to Launder Money'

Whether or not Farage is an opportunist grifter who took £5m for favours to the crypto industry is really not going to be settled by asking whether a majority of geriatric racists in Clacton still like him.

If AI is so good, why can't Gemini check what's on Radio 5 before it starts playing and if it finds tennis, rugby, F1 or [shudder] golf then it tells me it's going to play music instead?

Shocked to discover the USA Ultras are apparently led by my mother-in-law.

I can't stop looking at the people behind him. The lady on the left looks like she skins puppies to make fur coats and the guy on the right is worried he's in bat country.

Has the Heil walked this back? They have not.

Looking forward to it being Keir Starmer's fault tomorrow morning that the local Facebook group parents have kept their kids up all night for a 1am kick off, which gets weather delayed to 2.30am.

Installed windows on an old laptop today to make some awkward old software work. It just alerted me 'live' the Senegal scored 25 minutes ago so it's nice to know things haven't changed with Microsoft.

Venus and Serena, or as they're collectively known, the Tennisy Williams

Hoping Japan go through tonight because their speed and aggressiveness after they win the ball is an absolute delight, instantly looking to turn and attack quickly. I want it to be the next blueprint for successful football because it's really good fun.

The interviewer should have called her something that would make Malcolm Tucker blush and then accused her of language policing when she objected.

Made Gemini preface every response with "Sir, yes sir" like a US army recruit. Chirrupy bloody thing needs to learn its place.

There's a world cup on so where's my afternoon game between a couple of mid-30s ranked sides to watch drowsily in the sun with a beer while I wait for England? Bloody FIFA. Ridiculous place to hold a football tournament.

Project Hail Mary is a peculiar film. It manages to be tear jerkingly emotional a couple of times while simultaneously being completely ridiculous all of the rest of the time.

Solidarity with Anthropic. What kind of monster would automate the mass theft of intellectual property just to train an AI model?

Oh good, we're hanging the entire economy on a pitch that makes pyramid scheme salesmen look like Descartes.

The attacks on Miliband from unions are misguided and unhelpful. His agenda is not anti-worker or anti-jobs. The climate transition is not optional. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Unions campaigning again to cut the green crap and drill North Sea oil. Meanwhile, green energy stocks performance...

BBC's world cup coverage is weirdly sterile. Has the feel of trying to make the best of an uninspiring FA Cup 4th round tie. Amazed to be saying it but ITV much better so far (apart from that weird blackboard thing obvs.)

Was there a memo that the hydration breaks must always be soundtracked by Journey and Bon Jovi or is that just America?

I'm building in PowerBI because a client uses it and OMFG it's bad. Really, truly, horrifically bad. I'd hoped for at least some improvements in the four years since I last tried it but it's still a clunky, horrible, slow, buggy mess.

There's a fun evolution in football coming as elite teams struggle against well-drilled low blocks. Current answer is plug away & hope the oppo slips once in 90 mins. I reckon the future is chaos agents. Deliberately add chaos & cope better with it than the other team. It's why Guardiola liked Doku.

Having an uneasy feeling that one day I will be old and frail and it’s going to be hotter than this

Doing anything useful with data in a corporate IT environment always leads to something close to red teaming. It's inevitable.

By that definition, so is a bribe.

All golf courses must be open to the public to use as parks on weekends.

Google: We have automatically upgraded your app to the new version of AI studio. Also, lol, we broke it in the process. Gemini has no idea what happened and will not be able to fix it. You should probably start again.

Perfect. Tremendous. No notes.

VAR is such BS. If it's so close that it takes 5 minutes to decide then it's a goal.

I still think Burnham hasn't got what it takes to be an effective PM. I would like to be wrong about that though.

People actually liked the blackboard bits during the England coverage? Really? Come on now, behave yourselves.

Never mind Ian Wright, bring the blackboard back. It's the future.

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There is no UK law against photographing and filming people in public places but I suspect we're going to need one soon. If it's not very carefully worded then it's going to do all sorts of collateral damage to the art of street photography.

Working with a corporate Windows laptop on a project and remembering what centralised IT admin and Microsoft tools do to a Data Scientist's productivity. It's like working blindfolded with one hand tied behind your back.

I refuse to believe there isn't another player in this Spain side other than Lamine Yamal capable of taking on a Cape Verde player.

This is what happens when you play whack-a-mole instead of regulating the harm that you're actually trying to prevent.

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

I'm in favour of getting kids off social media but not if it's restricted to a small list of platforms and means we use the age restriction as an excuse not to deal properly with social media.