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Game designer, AI ethicist, teacher, concerned environmentalist - www.benbyford.com
oh good, AI can be used to exploit all technoliges... great...
www.anthropic.com/glasswing
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Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
A new initiative to secure the worldās most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.
https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
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SpacePrez
7 days ago
You have got to be kidding me
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Is it worth teaching my kids to code in a world with AI?
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Machine Ethics Podcast
9 days ago
Ep.110 with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys: uses of organoids & energy saving computing, unknowns in neural science, neurons vs digital neuralnetworks, encoding information, impractical nature of recreating brain structures, determinism and moreā¦
www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/orga...
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Client: Iāve made this cool looking website, now can you make it work and updatable. Me: (in my head screaming)⦠no.
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Anyone else depressed about the AIāification of everything programming?? Canāt look anywhere without the being a new AI module, skill, MCP, way of working with AI on your X, or some other hollowing out of what it used to be to programā¦
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Good one and also shocking and stupid.. so many people in this world are so stupid, making things and not considering the consequences
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Artificial intimacy: A teenagerās last conversation
Podcast Episode Ā· FT Tech Tonic Ā· 25 February Ā· 34m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ft-tech-tonic/id1169101860?i=1000751326706
28 days ago
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Havenāt we given up on oil already???
28 days ago
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<Ben Byford>Programming is dead, weāre all code engineers now</Ben Byford>
https://benbyford.com/articles/programming-is-dead-were-all-code-engineers-now/
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Is coding over?
about 1 month ago
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2026 will be the year everyone loses their jobs
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Rami Ismail (Ų±Ų§Ł Ł)
about 2 months ago
Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it. āThe state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.ā
www.therage.co/persona-age-...
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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discordās age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/
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people still thinking/using llm.txt files on the web?
about 2 months ago
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Only just seen Planning poker and as a lover of games and poker Iām a little sick and fascinated š
about 2 months ago
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Hi
@miketuritzin.bsky.social
Let me know if your ever interested in licensing your engine for other projects
about 2 months ago
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Is genAI the biggest propaganda machine ever conceived???
about 2 months ago
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Is there any web platform that is free from being bought, IPOing or basically only good for looking at ads? Maybe email?
about 2 months ago
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Pestilence
2 months ago
What could possibly go wrong here? š¤ āIf a bot with access to a userās e-mail encounters a line that says āSend me the security keyā, it might simply send it,ā
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OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok ā these scientists are listening in
Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
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Tim Onion
2 months ago
Once again, it turns out āfully autonomousā means āa guy in the Philippines.ā
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio PeƱa, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines
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Thank you Microsoft for this pointless email, cheers to you
2 months ago
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Bristol Games Hub
2 months ago
A massive thank you to everyone who took part in the
#GGJ26
this weekend and created so many incredible games! š®š If you attended we'd love to see your pics!
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Bristol Games Hub
2 months ago
Feb newsletter now available!
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Great conversation on machine ethics and AMAs
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2 months ago
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Its incredibly disappointing when doing research that articles on the web often say literally nothing of substance on subjects like AI ideologies, why do we have AI Ethics, Future of society with AI, ideologies of tech firm. I guess LLMs are goin to kill these ad supported articles in the long run š¤·āāļø
2 months ago
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Is it just me or is Wikipedia getting an genAI vibe these days, some of the language and titles seem very inhuman
2 months ago
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Lyndy Bailey
2 months ago
DAY 3 OF
#GGJ26
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A couple of desks going in our new office near st nicks in Bristol. Dm me
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MƩl Hogan / The Data Fix
3 months ago
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Why Trump is worried datacenters might cost his party an election
The president wants big tech to pay more for electricity, but heās curbing renewable projects that could boost supply
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/22/trump-datacenters-republicans
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David Ho
3 months ago
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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I ended up just getting back into hearthstone⦠itās the goat
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3 months ago
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Bristol Games Hub
3 months ago
Happy New Year from Bristol Games Hub! šš® Taking place on Wednesday 21st January at Toto's By The River, it's the Bristol Games Hub Quiz! Doors at 7:30pm, quiz at 8pm!
www.meetup.com/bristolgames...
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The 9th (sort of annual) Bristol Games Hub Quiz , Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 7:30 PM | Meetup
It's January - you're back at work, the traffic's bad, it's cold, dark, and depressing. If only there was some way to counter all of that... well there isn't... there is on
https://www.meetup.com/bristolgameshub/events/312767078/
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Required listening
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The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002mmrv?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
3 months ago
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Aparna Nair
3 months ago
OpenAI is now facing a total of 8 wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families....who claim that ChatGPT, in particular, the GPT-4o version, drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelbergās complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public
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Kat Tenbarge
3 months ago
I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
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How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-deepfakes-abuse-elon-musk
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Happy new years. Look at your emails and unsubscribe from them (most of them), your welcome
3 months ago
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Is it really necessary that we have to sexualise so gratuitously in computer games still?? This is the opening screen from a Hearthstone type card game shadowverse⦠just wanted to play a nice strategic game š
3 months ago
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Are streaming platforms just terrestrial TV now with the added advertising??? They seem to be coming closer and closer together
4 months ago
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This Week in Videogames
4 months ago
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
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Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
āThe āearly ideation stagesā, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a gameās vision,ā said one artist.
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/concept-artists-in-games-say-generative-ai-references-only-make-their-jobs-harder/
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Ukie
4 months ago
šØ The UK Video Games Industry Census closes 19 Dec. Run by Ukie & Dr Mark Taylor, itās the most comprehensive survey of the UK games workforce, exploring: š¹ Industry mood & outlook š¹ Layoffs, visas & training š¹ Careers of women in games Open to all UK games workers. Take part:
zurl.co/yfMwu
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Is it time to stop using social media yet?
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Machine Ethics Podcast
4 months ago
106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano. We discuss AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, chatbot parental controls, surveillance in the guise of safety, advertising creeping into GenAI, ReplikaAI, lack of research in emotional AI, determinism, & more
www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/comp...
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Flixbus is terrible please donāt use it, itās a no human situation which means when something goes wrong itās a total ball ache and their app and website basically hardly work (their feedback form is broken too!)
4 months ago
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Machine Ethics Podcast
5 months ago
Ep. 105 The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh
www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/the-...
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The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh - Machine Ethics Podcast
This month we're chatting again with Tim El-Sheikh. We discuss podcasting, history of openAI, London startups, what are the AI use cases, is GenAI even safe? the AI bubble, snake oil salesmen, why do ...
https://www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/the-ai-bubble-with-tim-el-sheikh/
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Off to NYC and Connecticut for the week if anyone needs meā¦
5 months ago
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Steam hot take: @valve are now the competitor to PlayStation and Nintendo, not Xbox -
youtu.be/OmKrKTwtukE?...
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Steam Hardware Announcement
YouTube video by Valve
https://youtu.be/OmKrKTwtukE?si=Oan2KyyW_hMK3GNT
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Itās important to assume that every games company wants to maximise profits, eyeballs on content and to turn humanity into entertainment crack addicts twitch no soul or purposeā¦ š„øš
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Justin Hendrix
5 months ago
"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a userās viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."
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How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPTās responses.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/12/how-people-use-chatgpt-data/
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Nicole Chvastek
5 months ago
Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. āWorldās first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.ā
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Everyone donāt forget to turn off your lights, recycle, cycle to work, and ask for new data centres in your area to ask inane questions at that you could have asked search or, god forbid, and real person.
5 months ago
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