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John Lampard
disassociated (usually all lowercase, sometimes all uppercase) sates a 1997 high-school like fascination with web design, and, for better or worse, has been transmitting from the east coast of Australia ever since. On and off, and in different formats, but it all kicked off in 1997.
Latest Posts
Jonathan Morton, at Statcounter: We have seen a significant rise in bot traffic to websites in recent months. These bots are adopting new methods to avoid detection and when they flood your stats with fake visits, they can make it very...
Jared Isaacman, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) administrator, writing on X/Twitter: NASA astronauts will soon fly with the latest smartphones, beginning with Crew-12 and Artemis II. We are giving our crews the...
AI agents might be smart enough to tell us how to, say, mow the lawn. But an AI agent cannot actually mow a lawn itself. Unless, perhaps, the lawn-mower in question is a smart machine, that an AI agent might be able to control....
Luke Cooper writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Researchers found on days when maximum temperatures were 35C or higher, which the Bureau of Meteorology classifies as a “hot day”, a $5.4 million collapse in daily...
Mozilla, developer of web browser Firefox, and email app Thunderbird, among other things, is forming an AI “rebel alliance” to counter the industry’s big players, writes Ashley Capoot, at CNBC: Surman is building what he’s described as...
I’m wondering why The Devil Wears Prada sequel is somewhat unimaginatively titled The Devil Wears Prada 2. Why didn’t the producers go for something a little more… groundbreaking, such as The Devil Wears Prada: Beyond the Runway?...
According to a Reddit thread, that was re-posted at Marginal Revolution, the online publishing platform is requesting users in Australia submit to an age verification process. Substack, as of the time I type, is not on the list of...
Aisha Malik, writing for TechCrunch: The launch of additional subscriptions will allow Meta to generate more revenue; however, many users may be deterred by subscription fatigue. With so many paid services competing for monthly spending,...
Lee Chong Ming, writing for Business Insider (possibly paywalled): Can AI feel anything at all? Anthropic’s in-house philosopher says the answer isn’t settled. When I read this sentence, I immediately thought of Hal, as in the HAL 9000...
Marnie Vinell, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Emily Wade, 28, says she is a genuine fan who is finding it personally frustrating to see the influx of influencers take up seats at marquee matches when others...
The London based neo-soul singer and songwriter was voted into the number one slot with her song Man I Need. Dean also scored a second spot in the Hottest 100 top ten, with Nice to Each Other. Such amazing music to listen to, especially...
Subscribing to RSS feeds is my preferred option for following websites, but for people unfamiliar with the really simple syndication system, doing so can be daunting. I’ve long thought subscribing to a website needs to be as easy as...
Age prediction will soon apply to ChatGPT consumer plans. The system is said to take a number of factors into consideration when trying to figure out an account holder’s age. Should someone find themselves erroneously classified as being...
Sarah Perez writing for TechCrunch: A report from market intelligence firm Similarweb suggests that Meta’s Threads is now seeing more daily usage than Elon Musk’s X on mobile devices. While X still dominates Threads on the web, the...
Manuel Moreale writing about People and Blogs, where he features regular interviews with bloggers: It sucks because, since day one, I tried to find a good balance between keeping the series running smoothly and not letting guests wait...