She's going to stick around until a successor is selected ( Read more... )

First up, a movie written by an artificial intelligence. It's only 10 minutes long, but it's pretty interesting. An article on Ars Technica pointed me in this direction. These people set up an AI and fed it a few hundred movie scripts that they found on the internet, received some prompts from a film competition, and turned it loose ( Read more... )

It looks like we're going to be doing a ten day river cruise from Prague to Berlin in a few weeks. One of the flight options is a six hour layover at Heathrow, and I thought that might be enough time to spend a three hours or so in London. I assume that we could take the tube in and back and wander around a bit ( Read more... )

"The Conservative Party have attempted to delete all their speeches and press releases online from the past 10 years, including one in which David Cameron promises to use the Internet to make politicians 'more accountable'. The Tory party have deleted the backlog of speeches from the main website and the Internet Archive - which aims to make a ( Read more... )

This is SO not a good idea in SO many ways ( Read more... )

This equipment can be used to "...shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted area." It also covers an area "...up to an estimated 10 sq km, forcing hundreds of mobile phones per minute to release their unique IMSI and IMEI identity codes, which can be used to track a person's movements ( Read more... )

This is an awesome project, and it would be nice to see it expanded. Sadly, the scanned archive will end at 1870 due to European copyright law, which apparently is a little more restrictive than US copyright law, if such a thing is possible ( Read more... )

Well, it would be more accurate to say that they are considering several giant steps. They want to install black boxes on upstream internet providers that will record ALL INTERNET ACTIVITY that originates in or from the UK ( Read more... )