Horrific/Terrific: the week in tech, rated on a five point scale

👎 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

👍 Space Disgrace

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

👍 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

👎 Cluttered Orbit

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

👎 YuanCoin

Virtual Reality adverts | China's digital currency threatens Bitcoin | Have you noticed? Operating systems SUCK

🤷‍♀️ Miscalculated Risk

An algorithm that solves discrimination | Tim Berners-Lee's NFT | Protect yourself from ransomware attacks by buying Bitcoin

👍 Failing Fastly

The day the internet stopped | Bitcoin now legal tender | Health app == doctor

👎 Green Giant

People are calling this a ransomware crisis | Windows 11 | Microsoft do some greenwashing

🤷🏻‍♀️ Second Chance

Proof of RAKE (as in raking it in) | Tinder introduce a 'please think twice' feature

🤷🏻‍♀️ Uncanny Moments

Google announce new technology to scare and annoy | Tesla and Bitcoin need to take a break | Thank you for those search results... how about a chat?

👎 Decrypted Crime

Australia switching all WhatsApp users to business accounts | A crowd-sourced surveillance network

👍 30% Epic

Having a .tech TLD makes you COOL, no arguments | Twitter's scroll to success | Signal's suppressed ad campaign

👎 Assisted Crash

Please change the world, but ignore that the world even exists | Tesla's triple whammy | Now you can deepfake a great lake

🤷🏻‍♀️ Repetitive Motion

A capitalist's love letter | A wilful misunderstanding of data portability | ban facial recognition

🤷🏻‍♀️ MS Health

Prioritise AI, forget everything else | A responsible ML initiative | A very wealthy robot

👎 Award Bias

The Augmented Army | What's the Winklecost of a Winklevoss? | an unsurprising Turing Award winner

👎 FLoC Together

A FLoC of disgusting low fat cookies | upload, meditate, repeat | lucrative exploits

🤷 Wristbook

So much hearing, yet no listening | Wrist Flex | Anything can be a toilet

Substack 🔜🗑

Horrific/Terrific is taking leave from Substack | asset theft | a nifty alternative to sim-swapping

🤮 Minted Tweets

Google's plan to phase out cookies will only make them STRONGER, and make me SICKER | Do you need to buy/sell NFTs or are you already a massive douche?

👍 Sentiment Giant

Feeling left out? Form a tech consultancy! | Juicy delicious super Tweets | Cambridge Analytica Lite

🤷🏻‍♀️ Taxi Quest

Pixelated assets | heat your home with bitcoin | gig worker = lame. Quest taker = much better!

👎 Link Tax

Cars with drivers disgust me | Self-sufficient Fire Sticks | No, you need to PAY for those links

🤷‍♀️ This week was sort of okay, I guess?

BUY DOGECOIN | Working through your feelings with a ransomware attack | Twitter Pro

👎This week was something I could have done without

Apple VS Facebook | Google VS Microsoft | Amazon VS your face