๐ Gatekeepers Crypto crash (lmao) | Details on the upcoming Digital Services Act | I hope El Salvador are okay
๐ Inadvertent Leverage Whistleblowers reveal that Facebook blocked public services pages in Australia following โlink taxโ law
๐ Clown Car One billionaire used to own Twitter and now another one might โ what does this mean?
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ DisInfoWars Alex Jones is filing for bankruptcy | Clearview tech used to scan the faces of dead soldiers | Binance has a swastika now?
๐ Monetise! Zuckerbergโs metaverse will suffer from 47.5% transaction fees | Elon Musk attempts to buy Twitter | Wikipedia bans crypto donations
๐ Zuck Bucks Meta are developing internal currency | Twitter are developing an edit button | Quantum computers are developing EV batteries
๐ Mercury Propellant A new kind of social engineering that hackers wonโt shut up about | Space Lawyers! | Meta pay the GOP to make TikTok look bad
๐ Cheap & Invisible Google Cloud has fired staff from Looker and replaced them with contractors | Why was the Amazon MGM acquisition not challenged by the FTC?
๐คทโโ๏ธ Online Harms Update on the online harms bill | Is Nadine Dories okay? | Windows 11 and ads
๐ โโ๏ธ No Thanks Iโve been trapped in Paris with covid and also thereโs a war on so this week has hit a little different ngl
๐ Abandonware Second Sight retina implants now obsolete and switching off inside peopleโs heads | Metaโs rebrand marathon never ends | A movie ticket service that tracks your eyes while you earn crypto
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Act Week The US proposes antitrust legislation for app stores | The EARN IT Act threatens encryption | The DOJ seizes some bitcoin
๐ Hey Joe What the hell is Joe Rogan doing? | Crisis Text Chat are using their mental health data for profit
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Unprecedented Demands Unprecedented: a politically motivated ransomware attack! | Meta are building a supercomputer and giving up Diem | Microsoft acquires Activision
๐ Market Imposition Apple deem new antitrust bills to be a security threat | Crypto ads in the UK to be regulated | The metaverse will harvest your emotions, oh dear...
๐ Deceptive Flower Attack of the Tulip | Signal CEO quits over MobileCoin | Autonomous, very stupid, bumper cars
Humans are the key dispensable resource driving the New Space Race Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want to privatise the solar system, transform the Earth into a museum, and turn us into space slaves or something idk...
3 huge problems we are ignoring even though they will destroy us From ransomware to space debris โ we just love forging peril, and do not have time for solutions!
๐ 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
๐ In Review Hello Earth dwellers. We did it: itโs the final day of the year. 2021 can now kindly follow the arrow โ ๐๏ธ. I actually started Horrific/Terrific in December 2020, so that means your favourite weekly tech blast is one year old โ wow! I usually rate the week out of five
๐ฐ Seasons Beepings I will be back in your inbox on the 31st | FYI itโs the time of giving so please donate to my bank account, kthnx
๐คท 3D Square Apple just can't survive without that 30% | Dorsey quits Twitter to live in a Block | More space junk
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Qubit Barrier IBM have created an eagle | an infrastructure bill! (but for surveillance) | How now brown DAO?
๐ Metacurse None of us actually know what it means to have a metaverse | why are there so many crypto ads??
๐คท๐ป Creamed It $130m in crypto stolen, very easily | Bitcoin is not decentralised, sit down bro | It's Meta now
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ 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
๐ System Failure Something doesn't feel like infrastructure until it disappears | the Facebook outage is more than just an opportunity to make memes
๐ It's Illegal China and crypto have a conscious uncoupling | please can we stop SPACing everything | build the metaverse 'responsibly'
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ 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
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Slime Scams In Apple VS Epic there are no winners | What is XCheck? | Facebook has Ray-Bans now
๐ #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
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Forking Hell An algorithmic bias bounty | Etherium has begun forking | Apple to pass photos of your kids to law enforcement
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Time Crystal Quantum madness! Time crystals! The future is finally here! | Facebook are working on making encryption irrelevant
๐คท Enterprise Metaverse The Metaverse is the new blockchain | The universe is the new playground | The billionaire is not an astronaut
๐ 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
๐ Space Disgrace How about some net neutrality? | A rich man goes to space | I was wrong about Audacity
๐ 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
๐ Cluttered Orbit Too many satellites โ cannot social distance | The FTC fail to prove Facebook are a monopoly | 4g on the Underground
๐ YuanCoin Virtual Reality adverts | China's digital currency threatens Bitcoin | Have you noticed? Operating systems SUCK
๐คทโโ๏ธ Miscalculated Risk An algorithm that solves discrimination | Tim Berners-Lee's NFT | Protect yourself from ransomware attacks by buying Bitcoin
๐ Green Giant People are calling this a ransomware crisis | Windows 11 | Microsoft do some greenwashing
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Second Chance Proof of RAKE (as in raking it in) | Tinder introduce a 'please think twice' feature
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ 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?
๐ Decrypted Crime Australia switching all WhatsApp users to business accounts | A crowd-sourced surveillance network
๐ 30% Epic Having a .tech TLD makes you COOL, no arguments | Twitter's scroll to success | Signal's suppressed ad campaign
๐ Assisted Crash Please change the world, but ignore that the world even exists | Tesla's triple whammy | Now you can deepfake a great lake
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Repetitive Motion A capitalist's love letter | A wilful misunderstanding of data portability | ban facial recognition
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ MS Health Prioritise AI, forget everything else | A responsible ML initiative | A very wealthy robot
๐ Award Bias The Augmented Army | What's the Winklecost of a Winklevoss? | an unsurprising Turing Award winner
๐ FLoC Together A FLoC of disgusting low fat cookies | upload, meditate, repeat | lucrative exploits
Substack ๐๐ Horrific/Terrific is taking leave from Substack | asset theft | a nifty alternative to sim-swapping
๐คฎ 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?
๐ Sentiment Giant Feeling left out? Form a tech consultancy! | Juicy delicious super Tweets | Cambridge Analytica Lite
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Taxi Quest Pixelated assets | heat your home with bitcoin | gig worker = lame. Quest taker = much better!
๐ Link Tax Cars with drivers disgust me | Self-sufficient Fire Sticks | No, you need to PAY for those links
๐คทโโ๏ธ This week was sort of okay, I guess? BUY DOGECOIN | Working through your feelings with a ransomware attack | Twitter Pro
๐This week was something I could have done without Apple VS Facebook | Google VS Microsoft | Amazon VS your face
๐ This week was good. Finally Signal awarded with Best New App of 2021 by NASA | a forking bad time | The Big Society but for Misinformation.
๐ This week was something I could have done without Deplatform, decentralise, desocialise, denazify | I'm so done with mining Bitcoin on Earth, get me out of here
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ This week was sort of okay I guess? What data can they collect from your poo? | A full-stack ban | Stop complaining and just move to Signal
๐คฎ This week was Horrific Don't just alphabetise, unionise | a machine imitating a human imitating an avocado imitating a chair
๐คก This week was [undefined]; get in the bin, 2020 Misinformation, abridged | Doing more learning with less bits | year++
๐ This week was good! Finally... Christmas comes early for Google | An Elon Musk fail | Our lives are mostly online now โ let's regulate!
๐ This week was something I could have done without A summary of the paper that lost Timnit Gebru her job | Facebook are forced to be transparent, for once
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ This week was sort of okay I guess? Facebook keeping things 'balanced' | AWS went down, pets go hungry