Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is, and a lecturer at UCLA keeps it in his spare time. We counted who writes the software under your phone, from the code itself.
— Read on sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
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
Interesting episode of the latest Techmeme Ride Home.
Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Silicon Valley’s dominance?
With the Trump administration – other nations are now starting to show an interest in “Sovereign Tech Stack” after the US is proving to be an unreliable partner.
https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/essay-silicon-valleys-sovereign-tech-stack-problem
Some really useful resources here
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.
— Read on www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied/
Be the customer, not the product
Why Personal Websites Matter More Than Ever
— Read on www.joanwestenberg.com/why-personal-websites-matter-more-than-ever/
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