Tom Allen

Image: We’re in the early days of generative AI, but the advancements are coming thick and fast Recently I visited the Tiptree Jam Museum, home of more spreadable sweetness than even the most wide-eyed child could handle. Middle age has arrived. But while I was (unexpectedly) enjoying the history of preserves, something else was washing around the back of my mind: how many people had been put out of business by technical advancements over the centuries the factory had been in operation....

Image: Google wants to remove bots from the web, but the technical community says its approach is “completely unethical" A working draft specification for a new browser API from Google has raised outcry from the technical community about ethics, trust and adding DRM to the internet. The Web Environment Integrity API (WEI) is not a heavily promoted project - the documentation is only hosted on an employee’s personal Github account , rather than an official repo - but there are signs that Google is actively working to build the feature into Chrome now....