So, our nation's foremost dummy has decided that he now has the power to censor British speech. Love that for him. David, [clears throat] where would you say the BBC is located.>> Uh, the the United Kingdom. >> What do you think the first letter in in BBC stands for. >> British.>> There you go. That's the one. The BBC famously, the British Yeah.>> broadcasting service. Now, the target of a Brendan Carr investigation. >> What.>> Yep. So, there's this kuruffle. This is a big deal for the BBC.They did a Januar ...

It's 2012 and Twitter is at the redhot center of culture. We had an election in 2012. Obama won again.There was an Olympics in 2012. Hurricane Sandy happened in 2012. And all of those things had one important thing in common, which is that everybody wanted to tweet about them all day, every day.But Twitter also just bought an app that might turn out to be even more important. It's called Vine, and it lets you make and share videos 6 seconds at a time. They loop forever and they're going to change the way pe ...

Industry Trend Prediction - The open web may have approximately 250 days left [1] - A shift from search results to AI mode is anticipated, potentially marking the end of the web [1] Google's Business Model - Google is expected to switch the default search to AI mode [1] - This switch represents a complete change for Google's business model [1]

The new name of MSNBC is MS NowWow, which is bad. >> Yeah, it's very bad. Just bad.>> By the way, MS Nownow stands for something. It's uh my source news. orld.>> News opinion world. The the three food groups as I call them and that website is ms. now, which is bad.And if you go to msnow. com, which I am doing right now, it's actually I believe m snow. com.It is it is in fact uh a motorized motorized snow vehicle. ...

A college student told me that there's this gadget that is a like an AI enabled smart pen. It's meant to scan your physical hard copy tests, read the questions, and then give you the answers on the screen so that if you're taking a test and it's a physical inerson test and you don't have access to an AI chatbot, you can still get your answers provided to you. And we're going to test it out with a bunch of different questions that are math, geography, science, and we'll see what happens.Just clicking around ...

AI Agent Strategy - Microsoft is positioning itself as an infrastructure provider for autonomous AI agents, shifting from end-user tools to supporting AI-driven tasks [2] - The company's CEO envisions AI models capable of using computers like humans, fundamentally changing Microsoft's business model [2] Copilot Capabilities & Limitations - Copilot struggles with basic tasks such as identifying the higher number in a set of Geekbench scores [6] - Copilot's ability to accurately retrieve information, such as product availability, is inconsistent [5] - Copilot sometimes misinterprets user requests, such as identifying locations based on file names rather than actual geography [4] Advertising vs Reality - Microsoft is advertising Copilot's capabilities that are not yet fully realized in the current version [3][6] - The performance of Copilot in real-world scenarios does not consistently match the capabilities demonstrated in Microsoft's advertisements [1][6]

Well, I just don't think you solve systemic problems with individual consumption choices, right. Shopping your way out of Monopoly is like trying to recycle your way out of the wildfires, right. It's just it's not going to work.If there's a big demonstration down at the Amazon warehouse and you miss it because you don't want to buy your markers from Amazon and so you drive around for 2 hours looking for an artisal stationer to buy your markers at to make your protest sign, you miss the protest. Amazon won, ...

Facebook never organized an everyone leave MySpace day. What Facebook did was gave everyone on MySpace who wanted to go to Facebook a scraper, a bot. You gave that bot your login and password and it went to MySpace several times a day pretending to be you.It grabbed all the messages in your MySpace feed and it put them in your Facebook feed so you could reply to them and then it pushed them back out to MySpace. So, you know, there is that you you've said organizing the everybody leave Facebook day is imposs ...

Today I'm toying with a modern Nintendo 64. This is the Analog 3D and it's letting me play Zelda and Golden Eye and Pokemon Snap and even more precious gems on a modern 4K TV. It's got HDMI output so good it made me feel like a kid again cuz it's not just scan lines.Analog CRT video modes try to recreate the sensation of electrons lighting up games. And boy does it look great. Only now my split screen window is as big as an entire '90s TV.I can plug in actual N64 pads or brand new wireless ones from 8bit do ...

Enshittification. It’s fun to say, hard to spell, and a useful descriptor of exactly how the internet has gone wrong. Cory Doctorow, the author and activist who coined the term a few years ago, recently published a book on the subject, called Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. He was on Decoder a few weeks ago to explain what happened, and joins The Vergecast this week to help us figure out what to do about it. Can we, as regular people on the internet, help to de-e ...