Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich
The writer and internet critic discusses books that reflect different facets of living in a society run by billionaires.
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The writer and internet critic discusses books that reflect different facets of living in a society run by billionaires.
A centaur is a person assisted by a machine — anything from a bicycle to a spell-checker. A reverse centaur, Cory Doctorow says, is "a person who has been conscripted to assist a m...
(1) STURGEON’S LAW APPLIED TO KID LIT. The National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature has teed off a lot of adults by saying there’s a lot of crud out there: “Children’s Boo...
Let’s take a look at some of the funniest, sharpest takes on our tech overlords... The post Five SFF Satires of Modern Tech Culture appeared first on Reactor.
Perhaps lost in all of the commentary and handwringing over AI and what to do with the works it creates is how we care for copies of human-authored works....By: Dorsey & Whitne...
(1) PAT CADIGAN IS CANCER FREE. Cadigan made the announcement Friday on her blog: “The Damned Horse Actually Learned To Sing”. Yesterday, my oncologist called to give me the result...
In June 2024, a ransomware attack hit NHS services across London, affecting primary care services across the city, including five NHS trusts. But what if cyber criminals escalated...
(1) AI TRAINS ON US; DO WE ALSO RISK BEING TRAINED ON AI? Ada Palmer and Bruce Schneier say “AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and thi...
Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You.
On March 6th, a prominent group of publishers including the 5 biggest global book publishers (Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon and Schuster) filed...
Today in 1948, the late, great science fiction and fantasy author Terry Pratchett was born. With over 85 million books of his distributed worldwide, he leaves behind a great legac...
Today's stack: a couple kids' series about saving the world!
Today's enormous shadow libraries — Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and the rest — trace back to Soviet samizdat, the underground practice of typing forbidden books onto carbon paper and...
(1) THE FUTURE IN VIBE CYBERATTACKING. In a New York Times opinion piece, Thomas Friedman says, “Anthropic’s Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign”. (Behind a paywall.) The artifi...
(1) WHEN FANDOMS COLLIDE. Publishers Weekly’s “Image of the Day” — Brandon Sanderson and his arch-nemesis John Scalzi took the stage in Decatur, Ga., for a lively q&a and conve...
Jer Crane, in an article earlier this week posted on Twitter/X: I’m Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS. We build software that rental businesses — primarily car rental operators — ...
If you loved the data retention of Microsoft Recall, you'll be thrilled with Claude Code Anthropic's Claude Code lacks the persistent kernel access of a rootkit. But an analysis of...
A late-night knock at the door, unregistered silencers, and a prison-drone conspiracy.
You can now download William Gibson's Burning Chrome for only 1.99$ by following this Amazon Associate link. This OneLink will take you to the nearest Amazon site serving your coun...
(1) CHINESE INTERFERENCE LEADS TO LAST-MINUTE CON CANCELLATION. Tammy Coxen asks, “Conrunners, can you imagine having to post this on your website 6 days out from your con?” “A sta...
Most AI assistants send your conversations to someone else's server. Outcry, a free app from Micah Bornfree, PhD, takes the opposite tack: the model lives on your iPhone, iPad, or...
Kelsey Piper, a writer at Vox's Future Perfect, pasted 125 words of an unpublished political column into Claude Opus 4.7 last week and got her own name back. She hadn't logged in;...
Voracious readers already know that Libby is a great way to borrow electronic books, audiobooks, and magazines for free from their local library. However, libraries are forced to e...
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