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The 'Tea' app suffered multiple major data breaches, yet remains on the App Store, prompting a debate about Apple's review process, financial incentives, and the software industry's lack of accountability for user data.
An analysis of the modern university's credibility, exploring the tension between its role as a job credential versus a place for learning, and the impact of AI on employer trust.
Have a box full of unused tech swag? Explore practical tips for donating, repurposing, and preventing future clutter, and understand the psychology behind why companies give out these free items.
Discover why AI models tend to be conservative, from their training data mirroring our world to the deliberate safety and commercial controls placed upon them. Learn how you can even make a local AI more unpredictable.
Feeling bored and underutilized at work, but your contract forbids side projects? Explore practical strategies to use your downtime for growth, discreetly build a side business, or find a better job.
Explore the core reasons for skepticism surrounding Large Language Models, moving beyond simplistic explanations to address technical limitations, ethical concerns, and the gap between hype and practical reality.
An analysis of the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) and its potential impact on small Mastodon instances, covering risk levels, legal interpretations, and practical steps administrators can take to ensure compliance and mitigate liability.
Exploring the use of AI to draft legal documents to save on high lawyer fees. Learn about the significant risks involved, safer DIY alternatives, and a novel (but complex) AI workflow.
Discover how tech professionals' perspectives on AI have shifted from initial skepticism to practical application. Learn how they leverage it as a tool for specific coding tasks while remaining cautious about its hype and limitations.
Developers are flocking to uv, a blazingly fast Python packaging tool, but worry about vendor lock-in. Explore community-sourced strategies to use uv's benefits safely, from robust production builds to leveraging its open-source nature.