from the sweet-talking-the-ai dept XKCD has multiple comics about how hacking isn’t quite the way they make it out to be in movies: And: Both of these demonstrate how actual hacking is often a lot less sophisticated than people make ...

from the i-can’t-block-that,-dave dept In our Moderator Mayhem mobile browser game that we released back in May, there are a couple of rounds where some AI is introduced to the process, as an attempt to “help” the moderators. Of course, ...

from the i-can’t-open-that-page,-dave dept Mozilla’s Open Policy & Advocacy blog has news about a worrying proposal from the French government: In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a ...

from the do-not-drm-the-web dept The grand old enshittification curve strikes again. Remember, as stated by Cory Doctorow, the process of enshittification entails these steps: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better ...

from the this-bill-causes-me-psychological-harm-and-emotional-distress dept The regulation will continue until internet freedom improves, apparently. Last year we wrote about Senator Michael Bennet pushing a terrible “Digital Platform Commission” to be the new internet speech police, and now we have the bipartisan ...