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Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th | The Verge | …BUT WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE REGULATORS?
2026/03/18
Maybe sometimes it’s the “people who matter” who should “nerd harder”?
2025/10/30
Ben Schroeter at EurActive: “It’s not that Europe regulates. It’s how it regulates” | Um, I’m not convinced…
2025/10/28
Tip for Civil Society: Never Negotiate. Always make them do the bad thing. Don’t help them do it, but make their choice either: do something really bad, or nothing at all
2025/09/27
California legislature passes bill forcing web browsers to let consumers automatically opt out of data sharing | WELL, GOSH, NOBODY HAS EVER TRIED THAT BEFORE. CLEARLY THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO
2025/09/13
Baby food pouches low in key nutrients, lab testing finds | BBC News | …READ THIS ARTICLE if you are interested in AI or Cybersecurity, because …
2025/04/29
“Dutch computer scientist and intelligence expert Bert Hubert explains why European governments should urgently exit the American clouds and how to do this fastest” | republik.ch
2025/04/03
Reminder: Heathrow is/was “down” due to a power failure, and all those folk who point at the Aviation industry as a paragon of risk-aversion… well, a friend just observed:
2025/03/21
1995: “The unique risks — and opportunities — of The World Wide Web demand a policy-neutral, extra-regulatory model for standards and compliance.”
2025/03/13
Essay: “Securing Model Weights” considered pointless | Lessons learned from (failed) protection of the Unix source code, et al…
2025/01/30
I wish I could believe that this good news was the result of HMG walking-back from the precipice of “if it moves, regulate it”, but instead…
2025/01/02
This is a cute and amusing snapshot of some issues that social media cause to political power & regulation
2025/01/02
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