Tech Policy (Graze Feed)

Holy shit. Bloomberg just verified one of my biggest scoops - that Microsoft only has 2gw of operational capacity. I had it at 1.993GW in prep for the story that @aishadown.bsky.social and I did for the guardian. Vindication! www.theguardi…

Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, …

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire …

this is a super damning bit where OpenAI and Microsoft's own highly compensated experts (Tucker a regular big tech expert often Facebook/privacy cases) back up substitution, traffic reduction harms, and the distinction from search. /7

So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.

Their tactic, which they have done over and over again for more than a decade, is simple: * Get caught violating privacy and trust * Say that it was an accident or mistake * Wait long enough for people's attention to drift, and ship the ab…

This is also the guy who was so proud of his "no employees are allowed to express political opinions at work" message that a bunch of tech CEOs cheered on as the end of woke. Turns out he's still allowed to express political opinions when …

The cyber and info sec communities are looking at the recent AI news quite differently than the rest of us. Some are going back into work and telling their engineers "hey, remember how we said we'd get to that patch later...let's actuall…

A reminder that Google Maps allows you to alert it to mistakes it made and suggest fixes.

Nice. El-Sayed is using the video of Mike Rogers telling @stevevladeck.bsky.social that there's no privacy violation if the person whose privacy is being violated never knows about it...