Japan is just a few days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry as the producer of the nation’s most popular beer wrestles with a devastating cyber attack that has shut down its domestic breweries www.ft.com/content/bb86...

Any UK resident visiting a site that uses imgur will see a 404 image - so we'll be getting a sh**y experience going forward.

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer. www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

Help TwoMorrows Publishing recoup its Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy losses! They owe us $65,000 we'll never get, so we’re having a fundraiser, with advance copies for supporters. Any amount will help us keep producing all your favorite publications. Full details here: givebutter.com/B7HQDj

The essential failure of LLMs in the smart home - where natural language processing should shine - is the best evidence that LLMs as a technology simply may not be able to do the things they’re promised www.theverge.com/report/78717...

Ah man. This bubble is propping up so many other companies.

Looking at a bit of code and thinking this could be refactored. Asked copilot to refactor the highlighted code. Tried it out - didn't work. Posted the error to copilot - "Oh yeah you can't do that terraform doesn't allow it." Googled it to make sure - can't be done.

So I got stopped by the police this morning asking me where I was off to. I said "work". Pointed to the building I work in and carried on walking. I'm now in a foul mood.

Anecdotally I'm also hearing this.

Freaky Tales was very good. It's my kind of movie. Recommend.

This was not, of course, the case made by the Leave side - who dismissed any arguments about the potential negative impact of Brexit as "Project Fear".

A little bit of navel-gazing on the last twelve months of trying to run a start-up local news organisation with no investment or plan, entirely funded by readers. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-new...

exactly 48 years ago, voyager 1 took the first image of the earth and moon in the same frame from over 7 million miles away.

Look who came with

As straightforward a case as you can find of being cancelled not because of spewing hate or celebrating murder but because the most powerful political figures in the land did not like being criticised: news.sky.com/story/jimmy-...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

From the creator of Ruby on Rails. WTAF. I'm calling this bulls**t out. Complete and utter nonsense. How many tech bros are falling into this Musk fuelled nonsense. world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-rem...

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

I'm in a masochistic relationship with Silksong. It keeps punishing me but I keep going back for more.

Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

Ride the High Country (1962) directed by Sam Peckinpah Blueberry (1983) by Jean Giraud (Moebius)

The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.

New from me at my favourite newsletter (again): the origins of the UK Online Safety Act were not grounded in child safety, but rather the authoritarian fantasies of the affluent white English right wing. So why aren't they over the moon about it? internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that...

Note that Orban does not name or directly criticise the country that sent the drones - a Martian reading his tweet would be confused as to which of Russia and Ukraine did it...

New post: Key myths on asylum, immigration and how to take on the far right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/key-... Few issues are so contaminated by disinformation as immigration/asylum. While some have motives to push these myths, the government has its own myths that stop it explaining facts.

DF Direct Weekly #230 is out now, discussing Switch 2's ray tracing debut in SW Outlaws, Switch 2 cart speeds, 007 First Light's gameplay debut, Hollow Knight: Silksong and much, much more: youtu.be/TMWPIT7F5e4

This deafening silence is simply an abdication of responsibility.

If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.

i don't agree with this on any level but i have to say he looks great in this shirt www.404media.co/shein-luigi-...

Debacle is the right word. UK governments between 2016 and 2024 lived in a fantasy world with regard to trade and EU relations that was damaging and expensive. This one is more realistic but has to pick up the pieces. www.politico.eu/article/brex...

New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW

I'm researching what is happening in the tech jobs market. If you're a hiring manager recruiting, or an experienced eng on the job market, would love to hear what you see. DMs open. (Feels like a weird market. I suspect data on eg jobs doesn't reflect what's on the ground)

InfoSec news is calling it an "AI-enabled supply chain attack", which is technically true but misses the point that "a build tools company vibe-coded a change that would execute a shell command if it was in the title of the PR, and somehow nobody involved thought that was a big deal"

No 10's use of Keir Starmer’s Twitter feed is not something Keir Starmer could credibly defend. What is he doing with the imagery here & why? x.com/Keir_Starmer...

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

"Erupt across UK" is a crazily inaccurate ITV news headline for a patchy smattering of protests eg 150-250 people in Orpington, Horley & Cheshunt; a peak yesterday 300 in Mold; & outnumbered by counterprotests in Liverpool, Bristol and Perth ITV should report accurately, not invent "erupts"

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN CONCEDES GPT-5 WAS A MISFIRE, BETS ON GPT-6

The LEGO Batman demo at #gamescom2025 takes place at the theater where Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered.

Welp that's certainly a line

Reading a lot of subreddits on AI boy/girl friends. A lot of companies have their own internal AIs. What's the policy going to be to prevent the kind of dependent relationships that may well form? I'm not casting shade on anyone. Just find it fascinating.

I think people should stop platformIng him. Yes he was once a foundational computer scientist. No he has no clue whether this will happen or not. All he does is go from sofa to sofa spouting catastrophic predictions.

Man I would love to take a peek at the alternate universe where they did this.

It's the fake boyfriend phone scammers being put out of business I feel sorry for.

When AI prompting goes wrong in TNG you get a Moriarty that achieves consciousness. In real life when AI prompting goes wrong you get 3 b's in blueberry. youtu.be/6rICFoH5P5A?...

🤣 - To be clear. I'm laughing at the human race not the poster. www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...

Essex Police have posted footage to address this right-wing misunderstanding/conspiracy theory, in which "flashes" is misheard as "fascists"