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James Titcomb

@jamestitcomb.bsky.social
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Can't imagine why Meta is finding it so difficult to hire AI researchers www.reuters.com/business/met...
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Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Rounding off an uncharacteristically long Telegraph Births column today
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Somehow they made the robot more creepy by giving it clothes
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is all a huge vindication of the UK's decades-long move towards becoming a nation of lawyers, hairdressers and PR consultants that no longer makes things that can be tariffed
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
SpaceX asks Trump for tariff exemptions www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
telegraph.co.uk
Elon Musk’s SpaceX pleads with Trump for tariff exemptions
Rocket company asks US government to waive trade levies on Chinese-made manufacturing equipment
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Nice solidarity here when Greene calls on an American: "I'm an American journalist, and I'd like to hear your answer to what she's asking."
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Relaxing Sunday trading laws feels like a popular, fiscally-neutral policy that would do a lot more for growth than increasing the contactless limit or whatever. Weird that there appears to be zero momentum behind it
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I see all these stories about advertisers like Disney and Apple returning to X but my feed is all stuff like this
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Sure, but does the picture caption need to mention his politics?
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Feel like this government is about to get a strong sense of what treating tech giants like nation states means in practice
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Meta ditching fact checkers might be a result of a wider shift in society’s approach to acceptable speech boundaries encapsulated by the US election. But if you asked me on a deeper level, I’d say Mark Zuckerberg would really like Trump to keep the TikTok ban
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Wings over London
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The actual use is running Chrome with all my tabs open
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Wrote about the HS2 of the telecoms world, the Emergency Services Network, which still hasn't been switched on a decade after being announced www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
telegraph.co.uk
How Whitehall blundering created an ‘unfixable’ £14bn scandal
In a country notorious for delays and spiralling costs, the emergency services network upgrade still stands out
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Seasonal reminder that contrary to popular belief, sharing your Spotify Wrapped is NOT mandatory
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The tax on EV owners without a driveway feels like something that’s going to need intervention sooner rather than later
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Knew I'd seen that somewhere
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I’m sorry, what?
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

At least one item on his wishlist has been granted: Bluesky has decided to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100, the company told Platformer. The move comes in response to Bluesky’s rapid growth since this month’s US presidential election, which triggered a fresh exodus of users away from Elon Musk’s X and over the weekend took the platform past 22 million total users.
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Black Friday has really gentrified. Used to be a day when people queued up to lamp each other for a cheap telly and now it's a fortnight where you can renew your Economist subscription and phone contract for half price
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The year is 2070, only the roaches and underground people survive. Apple is developing a more conversational Siri to catch up in AI
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Bluesky does a good job with the starter packs but remember when you could just do this to build your social graph
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Bluesky juice is real but these Similarweb charts going round showing it overtake Threads are for *website visits* which isn’t a particularly meaningful metric in 2024
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Britain has fallen to a record low in the global TOP500 supercomputer rankings The UK's most powerful supercomputer comes in at 62nd in November's list Comes after new government suspended funding for new exascale machine www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
telegraph.co.uk
UK falls to record low in world supercomputer ranking as Starmer pulls funding
Lack of investment threatens Britain’s position in global tech race
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Gmail has sent me a weekly 98% warning for 18 months now. Being cut off feels pretty unlikely at this point
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 17/11/2024
How the foundation of Bluesky was built is so crucial for the future of social — so much so that @rmac.bsky.social & I wrote a whole chapter about it in our book. From day 1, @jay.bsky.team was insistent on independence, a decision that was extraordinarily prescient. (1/2)
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
You know Bluesky is the new Twitter because I’m already being mistaken for @jamestitcombe.bsky.social
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
One of the big post election scoops came from turning up to a payments infrastructure conference
Text reads: Kamala Harris’s fears of a progressive backlash killed a plan for her to appear on Joe Rogan’s podcast, a campaign official has said, shedding light on a decision that infuriated some Democrats who are reeling after Donald Trump’s election victory.

The Harris campaign and Rogan, whose audience is bigger than that of many television networks, had discussed an interview for his podcast — a move some Democrats hoped would help Harris reach young men who were gravitating towards Trump.

The talks faltered because of concerns at how the interview would be perceived within the Democratic party, said Jennifer Palmieri, a senior adviser to Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff.Text reads: Palmieri also said news leaking that Harris was in talks to do Rogan’s show created a “very weird dynamic” with the podcaster.

“Because all of a sudden he’s on his heels about how his audience is going to react to this, and the demands that they were going to put on him to be tough on her,” Palmieri said at a conference organised by The Clearing House, a payments group owned by large US banks.
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Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com · 13/11/2024
Researchers say Twitter changed its algorithm to promote posts from Elon Musk and Republicans in the run-up to the election. "The date at which (the spike) in engagement occurs coincides with Elon Musk's formal endorsement of Donald Trump on 13th July 2024." eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
Excerpt from technical report
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Matt Field @matthfield.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This feels like an appropriate return to this app... Exclusive: The Guardian is preparing to quit X as left-leaning social media users grow disillusioned with Elon Musk's transformation of Twitter www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
telegraph.co.uk
The Guardian quits Elon Musk’s X after Trump victory
Publication’s decision to leave the platform comes as thousands of users move to rival app
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
What early Twitter energy can we replicate here? Shall we bring back Follow Fridays?
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
iPhone chips now being made in USA timculpan.substack.com/p/apple-mobi...
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Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in the USA. By TSMC
[Exclusive] The iPhone maker is ready to be the first client of TSMC's new Arizona fab. Finally, the iPhone will boast a processor that's Made in America
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Endowed progress effect, AI edition
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
I also work most days
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
“This purse is subject to export controls”
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Once upon a time, they would have moved the presidential debate so it wasn't overshadowed by the iPhone launch
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
I will vote for whatever party proposes banning official documents being provided as Microsoft Word files
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Called the police on youths playing music too loud and revving engines last night
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Big life decision today
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Never had a day covering the news like this 1 This AM we hear that Mike Lynch, one of UK’s biggest tech figures, is missing after yacht sinks, weeks after winning decade long fraud battle 2 In completely unrelated events thousands of miles away, co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain is killed by a car
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
File under 'Why can't we do this in this country?' - EV roadtrips in France are great. Charging is fast, plentiful and cheap
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
New iOS autocorrect is a million times better. Best reason to update in years
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
This is very funny coming from someone who has spent years complaining about bogus lawsuits against Tesla www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/…
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Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads
The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
I like it better here
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 22/05/2023
iPhone feature request: sort my contacts by date created so I don't just forget the name of the person I met the other day
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 02/05/2023
How annoyed are the Mastodon lot going to be knowing they could have had *all this* if they’d just offered people a server when they first signed up instead of people having to read six or seven FAQs
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 28/04/2023
Carbon negative electricity this month
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 28/04/2023
Where are the cool kids going to go now?
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 27/04/2023
I’m only here for when Gen Z Elon buys it in 15 years
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James Titcomb @jamestitcomb.bsky.social · 25/04/2023
👋🏻
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