Horrific/Terrific

Could have done without this

👎 Deceptive Flower

Attack of the Tulip | Signal CEO quits over MobileCoin | Autonomous, very stupid, bumper cars

Good! Finally...

👍 Pointless Fines

My other Bored Ape is your Bored Ape | Some regulators have been defrosted to administer ineffective fines | Your car is your final tech prison

Could have done without this

👎 In Review

Hello Earth dwellers. We did it: it’s the final day of the year. 2021 can now kindly follow the arrow → 🗑️. I actually started Horrific/Terrific in December 2020, so that means your favourite weekly tech blast is one year old — wow! I usually rate the week out of five

Sort of okay

🤷 Automated Death

Killer robots! | No more sun! | A new AI ethics institute!

Sort of okay

🤷 3D Square

Apple just can't survive without that 30% | Dorsey quits Twitter to live in a Block | More space junk

Could have done without this

👎 Uninsured

Listen: if you pay ransoms, you are funding ransomware — is that what you want??

Sort of okay

🤷🏻‍♀️ Qubit Barrier

IBM have created an eagle | an infrastructure bill! (but for surveillance) | How now brown DAO?

Could have done without this

👎 Metacurse

None of us actually know what it means to have a metaverse | why are there so many crypto ads??

Sort of okay

🤷🏻 Creamed It

$130m in crypto stolen, very easily | Bitcoin is not decentralised, sit down bro | It's Meta now

Could have done without this

👎 Walk Out

A very hackable grid | Please walk out of Netflix... not Tesco | The Metapurse

Sort of okay

🤷🏻‍♀️ Electric Brine

There's already a fucking lithium shortage, GREAT | Unsurprisingly, there's an algorithm ruining lives in India | I'm tired of complaining about Ring, someone else did it for me this time

Could have done without this

👎 System Failure

Something doesn't feel like infrastructure until it disappears | the Facebook outage is more than just an opportunity to make memes

Good! Finally...

👍 It's Illegal

China and crypto have a conscious uncoupling | please can we stop SPACing everything | build the metaverse 'responsibly'

Sort of okay

🤷🏻‍♀️ Laser Internet

Google is going to save The Congo with wifi | The FTC demonstrate how ineffective they are, once again | Your iPhone could be your therapist

Sort of okay

🤷🏻‍♀️ Slime Scams

In Apple VS Epic there are no winners | What is XCheck? | Facebook has Ray-Bans now

Horrific

🤮 Bitcoin Day

How Bitcoin is about to destroy the world, starting with El Salvador

Could have done without this

👎 #AppleToo

I speak to a tech union rep about this whole Apple pay equity thing | Snapchat have a really dumb AR feature I want to tell you about | Apple go into orbit

Could have done without this

👎 Only Bans

Unbanning porn | the FTC refile their silly lawsuit | MUM's the word!

Sort of okay

🤷🏻‍♀️ Forking Hell

An algorithmic bias bounty | Etherium has begun forking | Apple to pass photos of your kids to law enforcement

Sort of okay

🤷🏻‍♀️ Time Crystal

Quantum madness! Time crystals! The future is finally here! | Facebook are working on making encryption irrelevant

Sort of okay

🤷 Enterprise Metaverse

The Metaverse is the new blockchain | The universe is the new playground | The billionaire is not an astronaut

Could have done without this

👎 Zero Click

Pegasus has proved that the only way to ensure phone security is by not having a phone | Yet another billionaire goes to space

Good! Finally...

👍 Space Disgrace

How about some net neutrality? | A rich man goes to space | I was wrong about Audacity

Good! Finally...

👍 Sad Cobra

Bitcoin.org held for ransom; forced to pay in Bitcoin | no one cares who invented Bitcoin anyway | Audacity is probably not spyware, relax

Could have done without this

👎 Cluttered Orbit

Too many satellites — cannot social distance | The FTC fail to prove Facebook are a monopoly | 4g on the Underground