David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 5hThanks for this! This feed doesn't seem to include all the photos in a post like the old (wrong?) one did - is that intentional? Not a huge deal especially if it's by design, but I really appreciated being able to see all the images in a post in my feed reader - happy to click through though! 100
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 7hI know every day it's just the same sort of absolutely moronic shit from these idiots and you'd go insane trying to keep up with it all, but this is a real mask off moment for how transparent they are in their contempt for the American people 000
Reposted by David HarrisonKevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 07/10/2026Microsoft running their ‘new products’ live stream with the CEO and their viewer count is going down as the event is going on. Why? It’s all AI. 8474110
Reposted by David HarrisonStephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Come chat with me about feminine computer creativity :) Did you make experimental hobbyist games? Did you mod the sims? Did you make Neopets fan sites? Are you Australian and over 18yo? 45847
Reposted by David HarrisonJosh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Following my reporting in August the privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into the app maker behind the Kmart glasses. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comPrivacy regulator launches probe into China-based company behind Kmart ‘pervert glasses’ appCommissioner said Shenzhen Qingcheng, the app maker behind the HeyCyan app in the smartglasses, failed to respond to her inquiries 35110
Reposted by David HarrisonMolly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger 5856154
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's a very easy thing to prove for them one way or the other though 000
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026... and, obviously, if it's as bad as some people are supposing it would be, they'd be able to just silently leave it up as an advertisement for why they had no choice! They had to do copyright crimes, or they would be making Bad Software Which Nobody Wants! 100
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Reading this, it occurs to me that it would be relatively trivial for the big players to actually just make an LLM using only open/public domain sources and provide it as a reference point. I suppose the risk for them is highlighting copyright crimes but it would be an interesting experiment. 110
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Let’s believe he’s a good man. But his second-in-command–is he a good man too? You’d better hope so. Because he’s the supreme ruler too, in the name of the king. And the rest of the court…they’ve got to be good men. Because if just one of them’s a bad man the result is bribery and patronage.” 000
Reposted by David HarrisonCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“.. if a large part of the economy is just less rate sensitive and that is what is pushing the economy to grow faster, then the Fed, unfortunately, has to hurt the part of the economy that is more rate sensitive.” 👀 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b... 1922667
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Watching so many countries, including here in Australia, just whining about diesel prices instead of just getting seriously about the business of electrifying our transport backbone, is irksome 020
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I mean let's not forget these models have secretly been hacking governments for the last couple months, figuring out how to pop calc.exe is also not a big stretch 010
Reposted by David HarrisonKate Sills @katelynsills.com · 02/10/2026This is fascinating! So the hypothesis is that LLMs internally use the "Clock" algorithm, which is a probabilistic form of addition. This is different than tool use, where an LLM would just call code to actually calculate in the way a calculator does. I had Claude give me an example of "Clock" 4154
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Another awful crypto story - the term "wrench attack" is now in the vernacular: www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comCrypto thieves attacked man in home and threatened to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robberyThe man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency. 000
Reposted by David Harrisonevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Android has rolled out some new features for Advanced Protection, including intrusion logging, which is especially useful for survivors because nearly all commercially-available Android stalkerware is installed by a person with physical access logging in: blog.google/security/and...blog.google6 ways Advanced Protection on Android keeps you safeDiscover new Advanced Protection features on Android designed to defend against sophisticated threats and keep your data safe. 117088
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Heh just saw they are hiring an exec director of technology: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44... I guess better late than never?linkedin.comExecutive Director, Technology at Department of Customer Services, Open Data and Small and Family Business — Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | LinkedIn JobsApply for Executive Director, Technology at Department of Customer Services, Open Data and Small and Family Business in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Full-time Director role. See responsibilities, ... 000
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Weren't like Delta Force and special forces in general somewhat famously decked out with beards? 001
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026'A department spokesperson said no payment was made "to those responsible".' Astonishing lack of detail here - what happened!? If no payment was made that implies some sort of hack where the attackers were able to just transfer money out? 194
Reposted by David Harrisoneva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026what they don't say is that our noble cyber warfighters, oh whoops sorry i mean "cyber defenders", could also just use these same open models to report vulnerabilities without Anthropic gatekeeping everything for their own financial gain 210118
Reposted by David HarrisonKenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So proud of this: real-time highly scalable distributed generalized database search on fully encrypted data, what we call Queryable Encryption is now out of beta. Culmination of 25+ years of academic work and 7 years of R&D engineering leadership under @senykamara.com and Tarik Moataz... (1/2) 1128
Reposted by David HarrisonTom Williams, tech journo 👨💻 @its-tom-williams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026👀 PS. Are you a technology worker in Australia who's struggling to find a job? If you're interested in sharing your experience, or just want to vent, drop me a line by secure email: tomwilliams.contact@protonmail.com 003
Reposted by David HarrisonDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11041801441
Reposted by David HarrisonJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 27/09/2026‘In August, open-weight models accounted for 56 per cent of all tokens processed through Vercel’s AI Gateway, up from 7 per cent in December.’ www.ft.com/content/d9de... 054
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Already seeing people putting this into production running on local hardware. Apparently requires a lot of fine tuning but after that works very well and is amazingly fast (I've heard 20ms for a response on a support ticket type inquiry which is wild). 000
Reposted by David Harrisonleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli 5256181273
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@opensource.google: the RSS feed for the Google Open Source blog is 404ing - any chance of a fix? There are several links in the page but they are all dead at the moment. Thanks! 251
Reposted by David Harrisonkat @kgt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Journalists stop ascribing agency to large language models 2026 challenge 27729
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The PM's visit to the UN for the purpose of touting our amazing digital credentials so we can get a set on the Security Council, no less!!! 0100
Reposted by David HarrisonDigital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Australians shouldn’t tolerate our governments’ and regulators' ongoing failure to protect us from exploitation by Big Tech. We need to be able to depend on our regulators to keep us safe, but at the moment we can’t. 038
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026These look pretty good. They're a bit expensive (what isn't these days) but the problem with today's Chromebooks is that they're too cheap and underpowered to feel nice to use for a lot of tasks. But otherwise these are really great systems for a lot of purposes. 010
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026it is easier to get money to build housing for GPUs than it is to get money to build housing for people fortune.com/2026/09/20/u...fortune.comU.S. economy hits pivotal milestone: Spending on data centers and other information-processing hardware now exceeds housing investment | Fortune"We’re seeing a pivotal shift in the US economy: investment is shifting away from residential investment and towards computers." 000
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Wild timing but I just learned the answer to this is "yes" from this BBC story they posted today www.bbc.com/future/artic...bbc.com'Confusion in the immune system': How allergies can develop later in lifeWe often think of allergies as the result of an unlucky hand dealt in childhood, or even before birth. But "any person, at any point in their life, can develop a new allergy". 051
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I know it's right there in the preview but "The end of human existence might be bad for financial markets" is too good not to repeat 000
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 19/09/20261) weird they keep confessing to hacking crime 2) weird this is now a form of marketing 3) weird that everyone refuses to sandbox these thoroughly enough to stop this happening 4) weird that nobody is telling them to stop hacking 5) weird that some people think this is a sign of the robocalypse 000
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Reminder for Australians that One Nation has been doing this for a while now. Journalists need to show solidarity simply refuse to attend if any other organisation is denied access, otherwise they might as well just get used to being considered a regime mouthpiece. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...abc.net.auShould the media boycott Pauline Hanson? - ABC listenPauline Hanson wants to be the next Prime Minister but will avoiding scrutiny from some of the biggest media outlets in the country help her get there? Or will the Trump-like tactic be a turn off f... 000
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"But there's a difference between making software for yourself that works for your narrow use case that you know doesn't work if you "hold it wrong" or producing work that you know is incorrect that you fix up, and declaring that programming is solved[...]" 010
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026this seems like a lot of effort to get them into Eurovision 000
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Be interested in how it goes. I find Discord way too gamer-style and almost too overwhelming (and I say this as an active long term gamer!) 100
Reposted by David HarrisonInteractive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) @igea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Today Screen Australia has announced over $2.1 million in games funding across 41 projects with their Games Production and Emerging Gamemakers program. These games come from every state and territory - congratulations to all recipients! ow.ly/fAKC50ZO8E4ow.lyScreen Australia funds games projects in every state and territory as Screen Currency 2026 points to sector growth - Screen AustraliaScreen Australia has today announced over $2.1 million in games funding across 41 projects that showcase the depth of talent across Australia. Provided through the Games Production and Emerging Gamemakers programs, the funding supports the nationwide strength of the games industry, highlighted in recent research released by the agency. Screen Australia Head of Games Joey […] 1197
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Australian banks never make international finance news for anything good 000
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just going through some old RSS feeds and it's wild to see some formerly very popular sites having had their domains bought and just repurposed by spammers, like Groklaw 010
David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026possibly because everyone knows the John Connor of this era is simply someone who knows how to unplug a computer 011