Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.
— Read on www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment
Brian Schmidt and Ricard Holden addressed the National Press Club jointly this week.
— Read on johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05/brian-schmidt-on-securing-australias-sovereign-research-capability/
The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we’ve known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we’ve seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking – the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.
Great ideas by Den Delimarsky on being the mater of your own domain – literally.
https://den.dev/blog/be-a-property-owner-not-a-renter-on-the-internet
How to hurt Meta in the hip pocket.
It’s a drop in the ocean – but if many people do it, well when Apple introduced changes to make tracking harder on iPhones, Meta lost billions in revenue, demonstrating just how valuable your personal data is to its business.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
“It will only become more painfully clear how important sovereign websites are to protecting information and free expression.”
https://aftermath.site/website-musk-twitter-facebook-internet
Blue Monday on vintage Casio gear
Going fine
I know I’m two years late but I’ve just discovered that Don Melton, formerly director of internet technologies at Apple, and the guy responsible for WebKit and the Safari browser has a podcast of his own. His guest spots on the Debug podcast about developing software are brilliant and insightful into what really happens at Apple, and he is refreshingly honest. Curses like a sailor too 🙂
Check it out.