In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.
As the EU prepares the Digital Fairness Act to tackle the addictive nature of social media design, big tech aggressively protects its business models. With Trumpists and far-right allies likely to join the chorus against the DFA, the Commission’s own drive for deregulation at all costs is not h...
Addicted to the algorithm: how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/addicted-algorithm-how-big-tech-lobbies-keep-us-hooked-social-media "As the EU prepares the Digital Fairness Act (DFA) to tackle the addictive nature of social media design, big tech companies are coming together to aggressively protect their business models. With Trumpists and far-right allies likely to join the chorus against the DFA, the Commission’s own drive for deregulation at all costs is not helping the chances of strong legislation."
News outlets want readers – and big tech – to pay for their content. But blocking the Internet Archive will leave major holes in the public record of the web.
Democracy? What Democracy? It's all about the old mighty cold dollar... ->
"When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking.
The Internet Archive has been recording the history of the internet and making it available to the public through its Wayback Machine since 1996. Now, some of the world’s biggest news outlets are blocking the archive’s access to their pages.
Major publishers – including The Guardian, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and USA Today – have confirmed they’re ending the Internet Archive’s access to their content.
While publishers say they support the archive’s preservation mission, they argue unrestricted access creates unintended consequences, exposing journalism to AI crawlers and members of the public trying to skirt their paywalls.
Yet, publishers don’t simply want to lock out AI crawlers. Rather, they want to sell their content to data-hungry tech companies. Their back catalogues of news, books and other media have become a hot commodity as data to train AI systems.
#OpenWeb #Media #InternetArchive #News #Newspapers #Journalism
My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery.
Wrote up about my personal journey from AI skeptic to someone who finds a lot of value in it daily. My goal is to share a more measured approach to finding value in AI rather than the typical overly dramatic, hyped bait out there. https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey
1/ Once again, @pluralistic 's latest column has struck a chord with me. He points out that many of the conceptual underpinnings of our economy and society which we assume to be "eternal" and "universal" are actually nothing of the sort - they merely reflect our current cultural context.
A good example of this are "property rights" in general and "land ownership" in particular.
We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often by wide margin.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.
holy shit so much this
i set up treehouse’s internal container CI for build execution containers running under woodpecker… because I couldn’t stand GHA!
“justfile” scripts running in artisanal containers; this is as good as you can get without paying for buildkite
https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/
A newly unsealed email shows how the CEO responded to the Haugen leak.
Emails show Zuckerberg questioned research on Meta's harmful effects after repercussions on teenagers' mental health
https://www.theverge.com/report/874176/meta-zuckerberg-new-mexico-email-teen-girls-research
“One day after The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster story about Meta’s own dismal findings about teen girls’ mental health on Instagram, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wondered whether Meta should change how it studies its platforms’ potential harms.
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#Meta #Zuckerberg #Suckerberg #Teen #SocialMedia #LeaveInstagram
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