Friday, 1 May, 2026

While I have an account on Mastodon, I never look at it – I just lack the bandwidth for another site to check. There are on or two people who post there, though, whose stuff I enjoy and wouldn’t want…

Terence Eden writes [the] NHS Goes To War Against Open Source: …this is not the correct response to the purported threat by Mythos. Neither the AI Safety Institute nor the NCSC recommend this action. While there may be some increase…

A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com: At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a…

Another one for my almost-bulging AI scepticism evidence folder – Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’: Crane said that he was monitoring the agent as it deleted this data.…