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Jon Reed

@jon.diginomica.com
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diginomica co-founder + Enterprise Irregular who blogs/videocasts on the enterprise, w/ dash of bootstrappin' + media hacks. OK, I rant sometimes.

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Luke Marson @lukemarson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enterprise hits and misses - #AI needs more than ROI - it needs buyer trust. AI leadership needs a re-think, and #Dreamforce is a wrap diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw
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Enterprise hits and misses - AI needs more than ROI - it needs buyer trust. AI leadership needs a re-think, and Dreamforce is a wrap
Readers pressed me on buyer trust in AI - time to rethink. ROI is the higher bar for AI, but is it the best metric? AI alignment, tokenomics, and doomerism... An interesting backdrop to Dreamforce, an...
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 28/09/2026
Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me www.wired.com/story/metas-... -> not opting in at all beats opting out later....
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Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 28/09/2026
Users find a default, mandatory Windows feature freezes your PC when you use internet www.neowin.net/news/users-f... "the latest Office update is breaking licenses as it is invalidating them and even deleting the apps entirely" can we just call Windows 11 a vibe OS and get it over with....
neowin.net
Users find a default, mandatory Windows feature freezes your PC when you use internet
A mandatory Windows feature could freeze your PC especially when you are connected to the internet. Here's what is happening and how to work around.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 28/09/2026
Maybe don’t let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account. www.theverge.com/tech/1001200... "Maybe don’t let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account." -> maybe don't let Muse run much of anything?
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Maybe don’t let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account.
Tech YouTuber Matt Robb claims Muse accepted a lowball bid and gave out his address without telling him. When the buyer showed up, Muse didn’t say a word and let the buyer storm off, pissed. When…
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 21/09/2026
"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought futurism.com/artificial-i... -> This "all in on AI" thing is getting complicated Outlaw slop grenades lol
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"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn't a pretty sight.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 21/09/2026
DraftKings Allegedly Used AI to Target Bonus Bets at Customers Expected to Lose the Most www.gadgetreview.com/draftkings-u... "a separate initiative to build risk scores identifying customers with potential gambling problems was shelved." -> AI for good is boring and expensive lol
gadgetreview.com
DraftKings Allegedly Used AI to Target Bonus Bets at Customers Expected to Lose the Most
DraftKings used a machine-learning model to target gamblers most likely to lose, while a risk-detection effort was reportedly shelved.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 21/09/2026
Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is... -> not sure having to pay people to be semi-coherent is going to work out in the long term?
gadgetreview.com
Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books
Singapore's ReadSG program pays citizens virtual coins for logging daily reading time, aiming to curb phone use through small financial nudges.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 14/09/2026
Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras www.404media.co/doctor-doom-... -> good to see Dr. Doom getting involved in local public comment sessions lolz
404media.co
Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras
‘We must work to crush any dissent to Doom’s vision of public safety,’ the Marvel supervillain told the city as it considered multiple surveillance proposals.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 14/09/2026
Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for you pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/09/m... "What if gaming, but we remove the bit where you play the game?" -> makes sense to me, have to get ready for agents to live our lives entirely while we watch from comfy couches...
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Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for you
Microsoft isn’t just the company that bought all the game studios so it could run them into the ground — Microsoft Research is hard at work exploring new realms in how to make gaming suck. Welcome …
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 13/09/2026
China Plans To Return Samples From Mars In 2031 After The U.S. Cancels Its Own Plans - Jalopnik www.jalopnik.com/2254441/chin... -> if Mars is plan B, we should probably keep trying to sort plan A a little better...
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China Plans To Return Samples From Mars In 2031 After The U.S. Cancels Its Own Plans - Jalopnik
The Chinese mission to Mars is on pace to launch in 2028, and it may beat the U.S. back to Earth with soil samples, even though the U.S. is already there.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 13/09/2026
Microsoft Patches a Record 974 Security Flaws in Biggest Update Ever www.extremetech.com/internet/mic... -> 1,000 seems well within reach for October :)
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Microsoft Patches a Record 974 Security Flaws in Biggest Update Ever
If you add 25 non-Microsoft CVEs with Microsoft fixes, the total reaches 999.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 13/09/2026
Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams www.techspot.com/news/113763-... -> cost me a bit less than that, and was worth every freaking penny. Though in my case it was escape from Windows11 and Co-pilot that really cheered me up
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Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams
Federal authorities of the Swiss Confederation recently launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 tools with open-source alternatives. The Federal Chancellery's plan calls for investing 9...
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Luke Marson @lukemarson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Enterprise hits and misses - bad data gives #Marketing an #AI hangover, Jensen Huang gives #LinkedIn an #AGI viral infusion, and fall events are here diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw
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Enterprise hits and misses - bad data gives Marketing an AI hangover, Jensen Huang gives LinkedIn an AGI viral infusion, and fall events are here
This week - just when LinkedIn was getting the long weekend blues, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang ramped up the AI fisticuffs with a new AGI proclamation. But should enterprises care? They should care about da...
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 08/09/2026
Amazon’s AI training on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’ pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/13/a... "If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in. That’s honestly the answer." -> A for honesty, no question lol!
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Amazon’s AI training on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’
The Twitch streaming platform is owned by Amazon. They use your Twitch streams for training AI. Twitch Support tweeted about it yesterday: [Twitter, archive] We’ve added a setting that lets y…
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 08/09/2026
‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit fortune.com/2026/09/04/m... -> not always pervy but always super creepo
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‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit | Fortune
The tech giant faces a new privacy lawsuit weeks after agreeing to the largest child-safety settlement of its kind.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 08/09/2026
Jensen Huang once again declares that ‘AGI has arrived’ — but his GPT-6 celebration feels like he’s just trying to sell next-gen Nvidia GPUs : r/technology www.reddit.com/r/technology... -> I noticed.... lolz
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https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w9y7mi/jensen_huang_once_again_declares_that_agi_has/
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 08/09/2026
AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns - www.schneier.com/blog/archive... ->bots need support sometimes too......
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AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns - Schneier on Security
I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I am someone…
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Luke Marson @lukemarson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Enterprise hits and misses - #Salesforce and #Workday defuse the SaaSpocalypse, #tokenomics is a turning point, and prompt injections are a drag diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #SaaS
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Enterprise hits and misses - Salesforce and Workday defuse the SaaSpocalypse, tokenomics is a turning point, and prompt injections are a drag
This week - Salesforce and Workday undermine the SaaSpocalypse with solid earnings and salty comments. Tokenomics is still a thing, but is it also an opportunity to shift? Prompt injections are a drag...
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 31/08/2026
PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games www.polygon.com/sony-digital... "Sony pushes the idea that "reasonable consumers would not be misled" into believing they own the games in their digital library." -> to be fair, ownership is a legacy concept lol!
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PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games
Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in court that players know they don't own digitally purchased games
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 31/08/2026
Can you spend your way out of loneliness? www.vox.com/the-highligh... "People are isolated and looking for community. These companies are happy to sell it." -> show me the money baby!!
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Can you spend your way out of loneliness?
People are isolated and looking for community. These companies are happy to sell it.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 31/08/2026
Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... -> cue David Bowie's "Modern Love".....
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Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair, wins divorce settlement but gets sentenced to prison for making an illegal recording — Husband lands behind bars after counter-suit over privacy rights
A net loss.
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Luke Marson @lukemarson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Enterprise hits and misses - agents need meaning, not just data. #Anthropic grapples with model pricing, and retailers get an economic gut check. diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #AI #Retail #Economy
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Enterprise hits and misses - agents need meaning, not just data. Anthropic grapples with model pricing, and retailers get an economic gut check.
This week - agents need meaning - and proper, contained actions. But how do we get there? Anthropic gets a taste of frontier model pricing backlash, and retailers run into macro-economic crosswinds. O...
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 23/08/2026
Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google www.404media.co/tons-of-peop... -> bringing a whole new meaning to "oversharing"....
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Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google
Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 23/08/2026
How to hack Copilot AI: ask it how to hack it pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/20/h... "This hole is closed, but it took Microsoft eight months." -> nothing wrong with chatbots being helpful lolz....err.....
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How to hack Copilot AI: ask it how to hack it
Microsoft sells Copilot as your helpful robot servant for your organisation’s data management. Search it, analyse it, everything you could want at work! Except accuracy. And security. Our friends a…
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 23/08/2026
Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover www.404media.co/brand-hype-h... -> pushing rot into our brains has always had a financial return lol
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Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover
The Qurayyah Painted Ware of Bronze Age Arabia had distinct visual identity, material consistency, technological continuity, and cultural reputation—all features of a commodified brand, scientists…
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 23/08/2026
Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors techcrunch.com/2026/08/22/h... "Bussgang, acknowledged his digital copy is a little “creepy,” but he said, “My students love it.” -> sounds awesome
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Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors | TechCrunch
In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 02/08/2026
PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research www.techspot.com/news/113303-... -> hey, that 17 year old from Medium that PwC cited wasn't AI slop - granted the case study was prior to ChatGPT lmao!
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PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research
The AI hallucinations were confirmed by multiple leading publications, including the Financial Times. The so-called "Thought Leadership" reports were intended to articulate PwC's insights into some…
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 01/08/2026
BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider... -> another one for the techno-optimists to explain to me when they have a second :)
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BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
On July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie advertisement to the dashboard Control Display (the car's main center screen...
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 01/08/2026
Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked dinosaurs www.businessinsider.com/google-earth... -> on the contrary, if dinosaurs are roaming the earth, I want to know about it lolz
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Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disasters
Google pulled its AI image-editing feature from Google Earth within 24 hours of its launch, after users created deepfakes depicting disasters.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 27/07/2026
Enterprise hits and misses - OpenAI's agent hacks Hugging Face: enterprise takeaways and mythbusting. Plus: NVIDIA, Meta and MIcrosoft back open weight models diginomica.com/enterprise-h... -> let's do this...
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Enterprise hits and misses - OpenAI's agent hacks Hugging Face: enterprise takeaways and mythbusting. Plus: NVIDIA, Meta and MIcrosoft back open weight models
This week - OpenAI's supposedly "autonomous" agent hacks Hugging Face. Time to demystify, and pull some lessons for enterprise leaders. A host of big players back open weight models, but is the US ver...
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 27/07/2026
A Court Reporter Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge Says www.404media.co/judge-caught... -> to be fair, manual transcripts that effect people's lives and futures are quite time consuming :)
404media.co
A Court Reporter Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge Says
A judge in Indiana warns a court reporter that it's their job to proofread their work, after catching errors likely made by AI transcription services.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 27/07/2026
Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... -> I guess we can say a prayer for our data as well..?
tomshardware.com
Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed — app has been leaking user data for over six months and still does
Were the app's developers relying on divine authentication?
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 27/07/2026
Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... -> another awesome Meta week... keep your goggles on...
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Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?
Filings from a recent lawsuit allege that the tech company accessed—and distributed—copyrighted adult films, blueprints for 3-D-printable handguns, celebrity deepfakes, and more.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 27/07/2026
Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti... -> who need credibility, ethics, or guardrails when you have lock-in?
yahoo.com
Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms
"They're targeting us people that have health issues."
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 26/07/2026
. @diginomica.com network research on CIOs response to the EU AI act was worth bearing down on..... and yeah, Meta is back in the whiffs for the zillionth time :)
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 19/07/2026
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/m... "Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool..." -> the key word here is "tool(s)"
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Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash | TechCrunch
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the…
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 19/07/2026
"Not employee surveillance," Microsoft defends Teams' new location tracking feature, now rolling out www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/18/n... -> think of it more like employer/employee intimacy :)
windowslatest.com
"Not employee surveillance," Microsoft defends Teams' new location tracking feature, now rolling out
Until now, Microsoft Teams could answer a question like, “Is Jack available to talk right now?” as part of its built-in “online presence” feature. You have this feature almost everywhere, including…
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 19/07/2026
China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns - Dexerto www.dexerto.com/entertainmen... -> but humans are so complicated and needy lol......
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China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns - Dexerto
China has introduced new regulations effectively banning customizable AI companion apps, forcing users into abrupt digital breakups.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 12/07/2026
Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/09/m... "The real use case is the market of creeps and weirdos who film people out and about without their consent." -> Metaworse?
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Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light
Meta’s AI glasses have all sorts of alleged use cases. The real use case is the market of creeps and weirdos who film people out and about without their consent. And Meta knows for a fact this is t…
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 12/07/2026
LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app www.sfgate.com/tech/article... -> things are looking up! lol.......
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Client Challenge
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 12/07/2026
Meta Patent: AI That Tracks Your Emotions Over Time patentlyze.com/patent/meta-... -> pretty sure my mood just got worse, so maybe the patent won't be necessary....
patentlyze.com
Meta Patent: AI That Tracks Your Emotions Over Time
Meta has filed a patent for a system that listens to your voice over time, detects emotional patterns, and generates a personal mood report.
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Luke Marson @lukemarson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Enterprise hits and misses - harness engineering takes over enterprise #AI, and #tokenomics is in full swing diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw
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Enterprise hits and misses - harness engineering takes over enterprise AI, and tokenomics is in full swing
This week - harness engineering is the phrase du jour, and for good reason. But can it help with the AI tokenomics ROI boomerang? The diginomica network weighs in on EU AI act news, and the future of ...
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 05/07/2026
Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email www.wired.com/story/securi... -> to be fair, the email address is usually hidden - just not always.... lol
wired.com
Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
Plus: Alleged Scattered Spider hacking member extradited, dozens of license plate reader errors, and Indian officials are concerned about WhatsApp’s username rollout.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 05/07/2026
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/m... -> unlike the Metaverse lolz - you can't make this stuff up.
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Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped | TechCrunch
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 05/07/2026
Microsoft 365 just got a price hike over continuous innovation, but Copilot is the AI tax on businesses www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/05/m... -> 'we shipped something you didn't ask for, now it's time for you pay for it' (awesome business model)
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 02/07/2026
responding to hot takes and strong points by readers never gets old...
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 28/06/2026
PlayStation Is Deleting Terminator 2 And 550 Other Movies kotaku.com/playstation-... -> well technically you still own them, you just can't stream them or watch them online anymore lol
kotaku.com
PlayStation Is Deleting Terminator 2 And 550 Other Movies
Movies like Rambo: First Blood, Bridget Jones' Diary and The Deer Hunter are all being unceremoniously removed
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 28/06/2026
REI pulls AI-generated bike ad after Meta turns it into a two-handlebar monstrosity www.techspot.com/news/112895-... -> I don't know, I kind of like this bi-directional AI bike...
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REI pulls AI-generated bike ad after Meta turns it into a two-handlebar monstrosity
As you can see in the post below, REI's promotional ad for the Van Rysel EDR AF bike appears to show too many chains, blurry lettering, and...
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Jon Reed @jon.diginomica.com · 28/06/2026
Microsoft warns Windows 11 recovery feature uses up to 50GB of storage, but for a good cause www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/27/m... -> not using Windows 11 at all saves even more than 50 gigs lolz
windowslatest.com
Microsoft warns Windows 11 recovery feature uses up to 50GB of storage, but for a good cause
Windows 11 Point-in-time restore can use up to 50GB of storage, but the space isn't pre-reserved. Here's how it works and why it's worth it.
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Luke Marson @lukemarson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Enterprise hits and misses - customers respond to #AI #tokenomics, and vendors are on notice. Industry analysts get re-invented, and "data primacy" is a thing diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #Data
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Enterprise hits and misses - customers respond to AI tokenomics, and vendors are on notice. Industry analysts get re-invented, and "data primacy" is a thing
This week - tokenomics grabs the top story again, but how are customers responding? Is it time for enterprises to claim their AI strategy, and defer less to vendors on pricing and platform? From "data...
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