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software reporter @ WIRED. message me on Signal: reece_rogers.01

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it’s true πŸ˜‚

06.03.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

no one:

Silicon Valley: im gonna create a MARKET that is so POLY it could destroy the world

06.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Alan Cumming, Bowen Yang Help Launch Necessary Foundation to Support LGBTQ Filmmakers "There is, in this moment, enormous political pressure to delete queer people from American media, and that includes young filmmakers who are being shut out of the industry,” said executive director A...

always happy to be supporting money going to queer artists!
lots of kick ass cool people associated with this org!

06.03.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 618 πŸ” 150 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5
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Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesn’t work.

Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire.

It’s an AI flop.

www.wired.com/story/why-is...

06.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 254 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 16

but it’s good at surveilling you and feeding your voice and data into its slop banks

06.03.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesn’t work.

Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire.

It’s an AI flop.

www.wired.com/story/why-is...

06.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 254 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 16
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Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well. www.wired.com/story/why-is...

06.03.2026 11:04 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

that's good right

05.03.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 734 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 1
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a man wearing glasses and a black turtleneck is holding something in his hands and making a funny face . Alt: a man wearing glasses and a black turtleneck is holding something in his hands and making a funny face .
05.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yasssssssss (I cried)

05.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Grammarly Is Offering β€˜Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authorsβ€”Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writersβ€”without their permission.

Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writersβ€”including one historian who died in January.

04.03.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 472 πŸ” 170 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 37
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Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance β€œData centers … they need some PR help,” said President Donald Trump at the event.

NEW from me: the pledge big tech companies signed at the white house today is supposed to protect ratepayers from high utility bills due to data centers β€” but the WH actually has little ability to make that happen

"this is theater," @aripeskoe.bsky.social told me

04.03.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 7

I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.

04.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 2703 πŸ” 301 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 6
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What Is That Mysterious Metallic Device US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia Is Using? Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device seen in a recent OpenAI hoax ad.

πŸ‘€ www.wired.com/story/joe-ge...

03.03.2026 01:09 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can helpβ€”with your time, money, and everyday actions.

Unprompted by anything specific… worth noting that WIRED’s ASME award nominated package, β€œHow To Win a Fight,” includes a piece on how to advocate for your trans and nonbinary neighbors:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

03.03.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 196 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Every trans woman I know has had "why not be an effeminate man?" shoved in our faces for ages and yet thus piece suggests that even once suggesting an effeminate boy might be trans is some sort of crime against humanity.

This is transphobia.

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thank you Kevin

03.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

03.03.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 14049 πŸ” 2433 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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What Is That Mysterious Metallic Device US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia Is Using? Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device seen in a recent OpenAI hoax ad.

Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device seen in a recent OpenAI hoax ad. www.wired.com/story/joe-ge...

03.03.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
OPEN AI:
WILL YOU LET THE GOVERNMENT
USE YOUR TOOLS
FOR MASS
SURUEILLANCE?
OPEN AI:
WILL YOU
STAND UP
FOR AMERICANS?
OPEN AI EMPLOYE
WILL YOU SPY
ON YOUR
NEIGHBORS?

OPEN AI: WILL YOU LET THE GOVERNMENT USE YOUR TOOLS FOR MASS SURUEILLANCE? OPEN AI: WILL YOU STAND UP FOR AMERICANS? OPEN AI EMPLOYE WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS?

Criticism of OpenAI working with the Department of Defense seen in San Francisco this morning.

β€œOPENAI EMPLOYEES: WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS?”

02.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

ByteDance is still trying to make the VR workplace happen

02.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pico’s Project Swan XR Headset Wants to Go Where the Apple Vision Pro Failed The ByteDance company wants to make the case that XR is β€œnot just for gaming” anymore by giving you a digital office.

The ByteDance company wants to make the case that XR is β€œnot just for gaming” anymore by giving you a digital office.

02.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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War in Iran Spiked Oil Prices. Trump Will Decide How High They Go The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills.

The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills. www.wired.com/story/war-in...

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practing a new form of mindfulness i call "fun computer" where i spend time at my desk but im not looking at things that make me sad or mad

02.03.2026 13:17 πŸ‘ 2112 πŸ” 188 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 8
01.03.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 4425 πŸ” 1235 πŸ’¬ 112 πŸ“Œ 42

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

01.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 2278 πŸ” 721 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 43
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X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

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