2021–2026

2026 190

October 2026

1. 30 OctStart Up No.2774: China’s spy plot on Nvidia, the neoclouds prepare for death, GM settles car data suit, an AI book prize?, and more
2. 29 OctStart Up No.2773: how to use AI agents, why Apple (finally) made a touch Mac, pondering maths’ future, election AI, and more
3. 28 OctStart Up No.2772: Amazon’s Bee raises AI surveillance questions, never-ending cruise.. ends, the safe internet is over, and more
4. 27 OctStart Up No.2771: Anthropic files S-1, iPhone Duo hits bumps, Rest of World faces uncertain future, Torvalds takes AI, and more
5. 26 OctStart Up No.2770: where’s the AI benefit?, human given AI-made virus, Apple’s new old iPod, Sweep those Mines!, and more
6. 23 OctStart Up No.2769: AI agents found in US bank accounts, the trouble with vulnerability research, can we fix plants?, and more
7. 22 OctStart Up No.2768: Meta fined $25bn over data privacy, AI infects estate agents’ pictures, iPhone Duo needs time, and more
8. 21 OctStart Up No.2767: how chatbots sucked up slop statistics, CoreWeave’s debt trouble grows, BoA rushes to fix software holes, and more
9. 20 OctStart Up No.2766: the coming world of AI agents everywhere, food inflation soars, NIST’s curves exonerated, HomeView Twirl?, and more
10. 19 OctStart Up No.2765: websites start banning AI agents, Microsoft exits UK data centre project, X checks “liveness”, and more
11. 16 OctStart Up No.2764: AI agents used to catch scammers, the passkey reality, the AI spending trap, climate change speeds up, and more
12. 15 OctStart Up No.2763: Nividia’s neocloud trouble, fridges wide open to hackers, how Americans stopped falling in love, and more
13. 14 OctStart Up No.2762: why nation states will fail to dim the Sun, a quick look at Apple’s HomeView, the cut-happy movies, and more
14. 13 OctStart Up No.2761: Anthropic warns of IoT chatbot worms, phishing an AI, Epic says no more games coding by hand, and more
15. 12 OctStart Up No.2760: Ukraine takes out Russian data centres, OpenAI pulls 3/722 maths preprints, .si domains boom, and more
16. 9 OctStart Up No.2759: OpenAI revenue disappoints, man versus robot, the Sad Wives of AI, BBC’s Brittin offers future plan, and more
17. 8 OctStart Up No.2758: LLM reverse engineers Adobe clones, ChatGPT does your school photos, the Disney adult debtors, and more
18. 7 OctStart Up No.2757: Asos app shows hacking message, the gamer decompilation, Google data centre halted in Finland, and more
19. 6 OctStart Up No.2756: BT to absorb failing TalkTalk, Siberia watches for plague, Norway eyes smart glasses law, RAM hike to go on, and more
20. 5 OctStart Up No.2755: another OpenAI safety staffer quits, F1 stalled by software bugs, Meta wants to infuse Muse, nine albums?, and more
21. 2 OctStart Up No.2754: Meta’s data centre tax tricks, AI Overviews evade antitrust, Swiss glacier melt speeds up, RIP SMRs?, and more
22. 1 OctStart Up No.2753: researchers query Anthropic gene find (and its financials), join the OpenAI Dots?, petrol from plastic!, and more

September 2026

1. 30 SepStart Up No.2752: Oura puts off ringing IPO bell, Zuckerberg interviewed, OpenAI frets over 6.1, Google’s orbital plans, and more
2. 29 SepStart Up No.2751: OpenAI struggles with rogue agents, Google’s weird search, California’s eroding coast, Sony skips CES, and more
3. 28 SepStart Up No.2750: the trouble with Meta’s Muse, OpenAI admits to more web probes, AI pushing up US health costs, language!, and more
4. 25 SepStart Up No.2749: hackers get details on all FBI staff, Meta shows off keychain assistant and new VR glasses, passkeys?, and more
5. 24 SepStart Up No.2748: Australia says OpenAI hacked its Medicare, the Xbox wasteland, how wrong is Zitron?, toxic life on Mars, and more
6. 23 SepStart Up No.2747: Meta ignores smart glass row, Dyson toothbrush has damp reception, Fukuyama on AI risk, and more
7. 22 SepStart Up No.2746: Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse agent, chatbots aren’t customer service, the AI writing Alaska News, and more
8. 21 SepStart Up No.2745: US military followed false AI report, how AI found problem gamblers, life on Ozempic, Miami’s drowning, and more
9. 18 SepStart Up No.2744: can an AI beat Pangram’s detector?, Siri AI put to the test, AI-produced sitcom airs, charge up!, and more
10. 17 SepStart Up No.2743: Russia recruits UK vandals online, AI Odyssey film loses the plot, Samsung hurries to unfold new foldable, and more
11. 16 SepStart Up No.2742: US deploys its first space weapons, how agents are ruining the internet, home EV charging at last!, and more
12. 15 SepStart Up No.2741: China’s top spy warns on AI, UK grid needs rapid upgrade, EV price delta grows, Photosynthesis!, and more
13. 14 SepStart Up No.2740: AI chiefs call for slowdown, mathematicians say AI proofs don’t help, how words lost their meaning, and more
14. 11 SepStart Up No.2739: California warms to nuclear power, IDScan confirms 150m drivers licence hack, Huang nixes AI fears, and more
15. 10 SepStart Up No.2738: what’s the risk AI wipes us out?, US might bomb Chinese AGI, Apple unfurls foldable, vibe code this!, and more
16. 9 SepStart Up No.2737: UK government demands to know smartphone users’ age, EV batteries do last well, DeepMind goes genomic, and more
17. 8 SepStart Up No.2736: how AI is changing our perception of each other, relive one of 100 billion lives, Huawei on trial, and more
18. 7 SepStart Up No.2735: what if we had taxed the internet?, OpenAI swarm found on German site, Sony says games aren’t real, and more
19. 4 SepStart Up No.2734: UN warns that world will pass 1.5ºC warming, China’s emissions fall, the loneliness of the baseball viewer, and more
20. 3 SepStart Up No.2733: Google escapes adtech selloff in US, the “ghost creators” in American politics, Word to be less annoying, and more
21. 2 SepStart Up No.2732: how conscious are AI agents?, solar overtakes coal in China, Meta disables hacked smart glasses, and more
22. 1 SepStart Up No.2731: the depth of US data centre opposition, academia’s AI ghosts, the Superbox ripoff, Steve Jobs’s closed mind, and more

August 2026

1. 31 AugStart Up No.2730: a deeper look at the Hugging Face hack, Google AI Overview hurts web traffic, 3D AI models flop, and more
2. 28 AugStart Up No.2729: the devastation of the Nepal glacier disaster, Nvidia looks to hug open source LLMs, GTA6’s big ambitions, and more
3. 27 AugStart Up No.2728: did glacier fracture cause Nepal flood?, Meta settles child safety trial, rogue AI worse than thought, and more
4. 26 AugStart Up No.2727: US tech blames China on datacentres, Yahoo tries yet again, the pain of login, Vision Pro jobs cut, and more
5. 25 AugStart Up No.2726: US data centres’ politics problem, OpenAI warns of AI attacks, will your monitor track you too? and more
6. 24 AugStart Up No.2725: Iranian hackers shut UK power plant, waiting for AI disaster, Roku serves up TV slop, visualising LLMs, and more
7. 7 AugStart Up No.2724: ways to think about AI use, do we need artificial viruses?, South Korea hits record heat, finding GPS, and more
8. 6 AugStart Up No.2723: how an AI agent hacked multiple systems, world hits 3TW of solar, how Google is killing journalism, and more
9. 5 AugStart Up No.2722: US military suspected over GPS plane crash, data centre YIMBYs, Rhine river falls to new lows, and more
10. 4 AugStart Up No.2721: global warming is speeding up, why Time is showing adverts to bots, the AI fast food servers, and more
11. 3 AugStart Up No.2720: $88m bitcoin hack from bad code, the TikTok AI slop shop factory, Substack’s precipice, Apple’s bug fight, and more

July 2026

1. 31 JulStart Up No.2719: the Wikipedian and the chatbots, the TV streaming stick fraud, our average age, and more
2. 30 JulStart Up No.2718: Google breaks up AlphaFold team, EVs rise in UK sales, the data centre building challenge, and more
3. 29 JulStart Up No.2717: AI stocks fall as investors get edgy, eBay pays for harassment campaign, are smart rings AI’s gadget?, and more
4. 28 JulStart Up No.2716: Apple’s AI advantage, AI lobbying explodes, the dangers of underscored usernames, bad AI forecasts, and more
5. 27 JulStart Up No.2715: what shall we do with superintelligence?, smartphones in North Korea, Nvidia corners RAM supply, and more
6. 24 JulStart Up No.2714: Google loses results scraping lawsuit, more on OpenAI’s hacking machine, Samsung has a Fold for all, and more
7. 23 JulStart Up No.2713: how OpenAI’s agent hacked Hugging Face, secondhand books feed chatbot, alerting to Claudefishing, and more
8. 22 JulStart Up No.2712: Meta’s smart glasses as creep enablers, the car alarm that hacks your car, Fable disproves big maths problem, and more
9. 21 JulStart Up No.2711: China intensifies the open source AI war, Meta’s unhappy engineers, how France saved the UK grid, and more
10. 20 JulStart Up No.2710: how vibe coding could hurt open source, Kimi shocks the LLM world, Tokyo’s workers get shorty, and more
11. 17 JulStart Up No.2709:
12. 16 JulStart Up No.2708: Meta’s AI ads go screwy, US soldiers targeted by Iran via phones, Suno hack reveals extent of scraping, and more
13. 15 JulStart Up No.2707: UK mulls midnight social media curfew for teens, sayonara OnePlus, Google sued over AI for books, and more
14. 14 JulStart Up No.2706: Uber’s sneaky self-driving strategy, Meta pulls AI image maker, the colours screens can’t show, and more
15. 13 JulStart Up No.2705: Palantir’s erroneous NHS England data, going analogue!, fake aircon, Apple sues OpenAI, and more
16. 10 JulStart Up No.2704: professor catches out the AI student users, London’s teenager millionaire hacker, ragebait by bot, and more
17. 9 JulStart Up No.2703: X accused in CSAM class action, SCO zombie lawsuit lives again, Netflix to try shorter content, and more
18. 8 JulStart Up No.2702: AI tweaks meaning of writing drafts, data centres push up electricity costs, the Xbox disaster, and more
19. 7 JulStart Up No.2701: Microsoft lays waste to Xbox staffing, should we ban parents from phones?, the secret ad industry, blog death, and more
20. 6 JulStart Up No.2700: huge datacentre project cancelled, the book club scam explained, AI superforecasters are here, and more
21. 3 JulStart Up No.2699: source denies Trump-Anthropic stake talks, Google loses antitrust cases, batteries go big, and more
22. 2 JulStart Up No.2698: Apple’s unhidden email, Xbox and PlayStation plan disc-free future, the silencing by the tech bros, and more
23. 1 JulStart Up No.2697: Tata leak shows iPhone 18 video, San Francisco’s dogs, Google fooled by copyright claims, and more

June 2026

1. 30 JunStart Up No.2696: WhatsApp to offer usernames, “frictionmaxxing” with iPods, Apple fights UK patent ruling, TikTok Today?, and more
2. 29 JunStart Up No.2695: how Android phones warned of Venezuela’s quakes, lessons from the RAM shock, Google rations Gemini, and more
3. 26 JunStart Up No.2694: Apple raises prices (but not on iPhones), Xbox ups prices, whistleblower sues Meta, Instagram’s TV plan, and more
4. 25 JunStart Up No.2693: downed US pilot talks of Iran drones, the data workers behind FIFA’s football AI, commanding Claude, and more
5. 24 JunStart Up No.2692: the extent of GPS jamming, how billionaires hijacked US broadband, AI stock selloff hits US market, and more
6. 23 JunStart Up No.2691: how Polymarket faked big wins, HR consultant wins case with AI, the holes in vibe coding, and more
7. 22 JunStart Up No.2690: our isolated headphone world, Julie Meyer’s trail of trouble, UK plans face scans for age checks, and more
8. 19 JunStart Up No.2689: Qualcomm says smart glasses will replace phones, Florida plans TikTok suit, Apple patches Beats hack, and more
9. 18 JunStart Up No.2688: trust in news sites keeps falling, the AI threat to internet security, memory crunch to hit Apple prices, and more
10. 17 JunStart Up No.2687: examining the UK’s social media ban for under-16s, will Siri AI kill chatbots?, the paid saboteurs, and more
11. 16 JunStart Up No.2686: Pinboard forgot to renew the domain.. so there are no links today.
12. 15 JunStart Up No.2685: Amazon caused Anthropic Fable ban, the deepfake expert, the GLP-1 scammers, solar beats US coal, and more
13. 12 JunStart Up No.2684: the trouble with smartphones, three questions about AI and jobs, SpaceX’s valuation questions, and more
14. 11 JunStart Up No.2683: search results are being slopified, German court rules against AI Overviews, NSO keeps spying, and more
15. 10 JunStart Up No.2682: Anthropic releases Mythos (sort of), Meta pulls smart glass recognition, deepfake ad scams spread on X, and more
16. 9 JunStart Up No.2681: Starmer challenges Apple and Google on nudes, iOS 27 makes itself exclusive, will chatbots kill sex?, and more
17. 8 JunStart Up No.2680: Apple to relaunch Siri *again*, jet fuel shortage hits Brazil, astrophysicists see LLM future, and more
18. 5 JunStart Up No.2679: Meta loads facial recognition into smart glasses, the AI tell, let us filter slop!, Bluesky dreams of Reddit, and more
19. 4 JunStart Up No.2678: Ted Chiang on AI consciousness, ChatGPT hits a billion MAUs, Windows laptops v Apple Neo, and more
20. 3 JunStart Up No.2677: Microsoft shows OS for AI devices, lawyers try to evade AI exams, Norse Atlantic’s flawed service, and more
21. 2 JunStart Up No.2676: the superintelligence problem, Instagram AI helps hackers take over accounts, trouble in the solar business, and more
22. 1 JunStart Up No.2675: Google engineer charged with insider prediction betting, solving maths in dreams, Nvidia PCs?, and more

May 2026

1. 29 MayStart Up No.2674: the AI boosters looking to replace humanity, the casino economy, an anti-snatch iPhone feature?, and more
2. 28 MayStart Up No.2673: Iran’s internet comes back slowly, Claude Code’s creator on programming’s future, killing the bitcoin ATMs, and more
3. 27 MayStart Up No.2672: the Filipinos writing those LinkedIn CEO posts, biomedicine’s fake citation problem, Uber mulls AI, and more
4. 26 MayStart Up No.2671: RAM shortage chokes cheap smartphones, Pope Leo warns on AI, LA’s hapless robots, big solar!, and more
5. 25 MayStart Up No.2670: the new Luddites, where LLMs get their writing, can AI fly the plane?, Ebola outbreak spreads further, and more
6. 22 MayStart Up No.2669: Waymo’s cars hit flood problem, Ofcom chief talks tough on tech bros, Meta begins layoffs for AI, and more
7. 21 MayStart Up No.2668: Google Search goes AI-first, Samsung boss sees end to RAM drought, the coming oil shock, EV sales leap, and more
8. 20 MayStart Up No.2667: the data centre opposition, Iran eyes internet cable fees, the handedness puzzle, micropayments redux, and more
9. 19 MayStart Up No.2666: Musk loses to Altman in OpenAI court battle, world energy tipping point nears, BBC faces the future, and more
10. 18 MayStart Up No.2665: the disposable vape disposal problem, beating pancreatic cancer, the US failure in Iran, personal software!, and more
11. 1 MayStart Up No.2664: AI outdoes ER doctors on triage, how token spend is rocketing, Meta fires smart glass observers, and more

April 2026

1. 30 AprStart Up No.2663: UK EVs pass 2m mark, are OpenAI’s big dreams fizzling?, the gloom of clipping, Musk v Altman, and more
2. 29 AprStart Up No.2662: the UK’s silent messaging, will AI pick your links?, Claude wipes database, OpenAI misses targets, and more
3. 28 AprStart Up No.2661: is OpenAI planning a phone?, Google prepares to meter Gemini, Trump purges US science, Substack v AI, and more
4. 27 AprStart Up No.2660: Ukraine’s rapid war feedback loop, Sam Altman’s human desires, EV ownership nears “tipping point”, and more
5. 24 AprStart Up No.2659: Meta to cut 10% of staff, the AI money squeeze is coming, aluminium prices rocket, the idiot intellectuals, and more
6. 23 AprStart Up No.2658: John Ternus on design, CDC blocks Covid vaccine study, the approaching energy disaster, post-scarcity?, and more
7. 22 AprStart Up No.2657: The challenge for John Ternus, what Tim Cook missed, Lufthansa cancels flights, biology’s motor, and more
8. 21 AprStart Up No.2656: Deezer says 44% of music uploads are AI, national parking app is here!, The Onion owns InfoWars, and more
9. 20 AprStart Up No.2655: RAM drought could last years, Europe’s jet fuel stocks running low, China looks to electric trucks, and more
10. 17 AprStart Up No.2654: Microsoft eschews carbon capture for AI, “workslop” weighs down workers, we’re evolving!, and more
11. 16 AprStart Up No.2653: Iran used Chinese spy satellite for US attack, FCC’s odd Netgear decision, sizing the proton, and more
12. 15 AprStart Up No.2652: the creator of Iran’s Lego propaganda videos, ending range anxiety, back means back, the cell mystery, and more
13. 14 AprStart Up No.2651: Internet Archive squares off with publishers, Beyond Meat’s journey down, how Japan makes trains work, and more
14. 13 AprStart Up No.2650: Greece plans under-15 social media ban, Europe’s airports approach jet fuel shortages, AI’s fake disease, and more
15. 10 AprStart Up No.2649: OpenAI cancels UK data centre project, oil industry fumes over Hormuz, our desire to name the masked, and more
16. 9 AprStart Up No.2648: Meta and Anthropic shake up AI and cybersecurity, Iran demands crypto for Hormuz, GLP-1 genetics, and more
17. 8 AprStart Up No.2647: Google Gemini’s millions of lies, social media’s freak show, the Copilot explosion, watching Trump, and more
18. 7 AprStart Up No.2646: how Iran is becoming a world power, the cybersecurity pro hacking drones, the AI news plagiarist, and more
19. 6 AprStart Up No.2645: the AI agent that set up a tech party, half of US data centres face pause, the food security timebomb, and more
20. 3 AprStart Up No.2644: how Sora burnt through OpenAI’s cash, a history of instant coffee, Wired UK stops printing, and more
21. 2 AprStart Up No.2643: how Steve Jobs learnt to nurture quality, petrol price teachings, RAM forces Raspberry Pi price hikes, and more
22. 1 AprStart Up No.2642: Artemis aims to recap Apollo 8’s journey, how Craigslist did kill US papers, Epic Games lays off 1,000 staff, and more

March 2026

1. 31 MarStart Up No.2641: book publishers fear the AI tide, the White House’s tracking app, the 1980 plan to capture Kharg Island, and more
2. 30 MarStart Up No.2640: Trump faces the Iranian quagmire, goodbye Mac Pro, Kash Patel hacked, the gap AI hype can’t bridge, and more
3. 27 MarStart Up No.2639: sycophant chatbots harm human judgement, Australia’s fuel stocks dip, PC shipments forecast to fall 5%, and more
4. 26 MarStart Up No.2638: Google patents AI site rewriting, Meta and YouTube lose ‘addiction’ trial, X improvement paused, and more
5. 25 MarStart Up No.2637: US bans foreign-made routers, Google rewrites news headlines, OpenAI dumps Sora, VW missiles?, and more
6. 24 MarStart Up No.2636: the hypocrisy at the heart of AI tech, energy price concerns grow, iPad or MacBook Neo?, and more
7. 23 MarStart Up No.2635: the lost fuel finder, from Reuters to Uber, the imaginary Army girl, how Europe and the US lost on EVs, and more
8. 20 MarStart Up No.2634: Long-haul Easter flights face fuel rations, our obese web pages, Land Registry paywall to fall?, and more
9. 19 MarStart Up No.2633: Meta cuts back Horizon Worlds, our over-friendly robots, UK ministers shrug on AI copyright, and more
10. 18 MarStart Up No.2632: Meta readies more job cuts, Kalshi indicted for “gambling”, LLMs used for Github attacks, Wired booms!, and more
11. 17 MarStart Up No.2631: Polymarket gamblers try to change the truth, Britannica sues OpenAI, hacking Companies House, and more
12. 16 MarStart Up No.2630: Google Fiber sold to private equity, AI companies train on “emotion”, Chromebooks’ RAM challenge, and more
13. 13 MarStart Up No.2629: life as an accidental sports gambler, love my typos!, AI agents run riot, why clean energy beats drilling, and more
14. 12 MarStart Up No.2628: the junior developer pipeline problem, oil prices high until 2027?, forgetting Google, America’s problem, and more
15. 11 MarStart Up No.2627: the phantoms of British AI “investment”, Bluesky CEO steps aside, Claude LLM finds Firefox bugs, and more
16. 10 MarStart Up No.2626: phishing gets even tougher to spot, New York salaries, don’t fret about AI jobs, the metaverse just won’t die, and more
17. 9 MarStart Up No.2625: Meta sued over smart glass privacy, a new Apple?, the bad agent, Grammarly fakes writer identities, and more
18. 6 MarStart Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more
19. 5 MarStart Up No.2623: DRAM bots snoop for memory bargains, AP journalists face AI future, genome model figures genetics, and more
20. 4 MarStart Up No.2622: US’s iPhone hacking tool stolen, reporter fired over AI-fabricated quotes, the ‘MacBook Neo’?, and more
21. 3 MarStart Up No.2621: Anthropic’s doomed military standoff, chatbots v PDFs, ChatGPT’s bad health, 25 years after the iPod, and more
22. 2 MarStart Up No.2620: AI v the Pentagon, prediction markets get edgy on Iran, Nasa’s solar mixup, when Apple’s lights breathed, and more

February 2026

1. 27 FebStart Up No.2619: Instagram finally thinks of warning parents, Claude Code for the rest of us, Burger King’s chatbot pawns, and more
2. 26 FebStart Up No.2618: Anthropic wonders if Claude is.. conscious?, winning bets against DOGE, the trouble with flying, the AI race, and more
3. 25 FebStart Up No.2617: Chinese robovac’s dire security, Reddit and Discord hit age verification bump, AI bubble trouble, and more
4. 24 FebStart Up No.2616: a girl’s view of online misogyny, Wikipedia zaps archive.today links, Donut Labs battery looks good, and more
5. 23 FebStart Up No.2615: AI bot zaps Amazon service, OpenAI hid shooter’s violent discussion, is ET there?, the “Fitbit for farts”, and more
6. 21 FebStart Up No.2614: Pinterest drowns in the AI slop tide, a single vaccine?, OpenAI’s competition problem, and more
7. 19 FebStart Up No.2613: AI jobs forecasts are everywhere, Microsoft’s glass storage plan, the Chinese fear of dying alone, and more
8. 18 FebStart Up No.2612: Sony mulls PS6 delay over RAM pricing, Meta research on social media revealed, your shoulder’s fine!, and more
9. 17 FebStart Up No.2611: did an AI agent write a hit piece?, check your benefits!, fears of an AI future, the lost sun, and more
10. 16 FebStart Up No.2610: Ukraine’s war lesson, London catches measles, an RNA starter?, Meta looks for faces, Ring dumps Flock, and more
11. 13 FebStart Up No.2609: climate change’s mysterious acceleration, China’s CO2 emissions fall, another AI video maker goes viral, and more
12. 12 FebStart Up No.2608: Google’s undeleted security video, solar farms keep growing, the lies about Courtsdesk, it’s copper!, and more
13. 11 FebStart Up No.2607: how AI changes work, China’s car are ready to go, Trump blocks EV chargers (again), Gemini grows, and more
14. 10 FebStart Up No.2606: can (should) AI write romance novels?, AI ads perplex Superbowl, charger companies seek buyers, and more
15. 9 FebStart Up No.2605: AI deepfake fraud growing fast, are space GPUs possible?, how to think like a worm, Moltbook?, and more
16. 6 FebStart Up No.2604: AI helps cancer diagnosis, CIA kills World Factbook, Waymo’s school bus problem, OpenAI fumes, and more
17. 5 FebStart Up No.2603: Anthropic ad snipes at OpenAI ads, Nvidia’s vanishing $100bn, lithium mining in.. Cornwall?, and more
18. 4 FebStart Up No.2602: Anthropic’s legal tool hits data shares, Moltbook and the worms, Google AI overviews hit news ad views, and more
19. 3 FebStart Up No.2601: how Musk turned Grok into a porn chatbot, Moltbook exposed, global warming hits US and UK weather, and more
20. 2 FebStart Up No.2600: AI truth in architectural renders, Chinese EV envy, the trouble with software, hacking Poland, and more

January 2026

1. 30 JanStart Up No.2599: UK government’s useless AI Skills Hub, Amazon chops jobs, Apple buys AI audio firm, cell time, and more
2. 29 JanStart Up No.2598: Meta faces addiction trial, the new agentic AI risk, iPhone Air’s pricey failure, Tim Cook’s lost compass, and more
3. 28 JanStart Up No.2597: how Anthropic got its book haul, what sort of AI bubble is this?, China’s biotech advances, and more
4. 27 JanStart Up No.2596: how the cloud is replacing Windows, TikTok’s new owner struggles, B-road badger bother, sport camera!, and more
5. 26 JanStart Up No.2595: coding with Claude, Google’s unhealthy AI Overview, can we regrow cartilage?, how Vimeo died, and more
6. 23 JanStart Up No.2594: how social media algorithms box you in, AI’s deadening uncreativity, Grok’s huge legacy of abuse images, and more
7. 22 JanStart Up No.2593: the trouble with WhatsApp diplomacy, BBC’s YouTube deal, Trump’s science wreckage, and more
8. 21 JanStart Up No.2592: is semaglutide hitting fast food?, a Bic pen lamp, vaping risk paper pulled, the danger of US bans, and more
9. 20 JanStart Up No.2591: how good products turn bad, Asus exits.. smartphones?, Threads overtakes X, bad NFT predictions, and more
10. 19 JanStart Up No.2590: the trouble with mining Greenland, RAM price hikes hit SSDs too, WhatsApps aren’t contracts, and more
11. 16 JanStart Up No.2589: WhatsApp’s global reach, Grok cleans up (perhaps), US magazines sue Google over adtech, bike life, and more
12. 15 JanStart Up No.2588: police confess to AI blunder, how the Underground is getting mobile coverage, Digg relaunches (again), and more
13. 14 JanStart Up No.2587: Grok’s evil AI image generator, Instagram’s libellous AI influencers, Meta shuts VR studios, and more
14. 13 JanStart Up No.2586: the idiot torturers, Taiwan’s ecosystem loss for AI, failing to grasp Tahoe, Iran’s fake social media Scots, and more
15. 12 JanStart Up No.2585: Is Iran jamming Starlink (and how?), CES’s worst gadgets, China’s desert blooms, Norway goes EV mad, and more

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December 2025

1. 19 DecStart Up No.2584: New York’s phone ban revives high school fun, the dangerous Wall-E future, Facebook charging for links?, and more
2. 18 DecStart Up No.2583: Oracle’s $10bn data centre stalls, Korea frets over camera hacking, why Ford retreated from EVs, and more
3. 17 DecStart Up No.2582: Facebook’s huge Chinese scam advert revenue, Windows 11 and the invisible sign-in, and more
4. 16 DecStart Up No.2581: the US’s “post-news” era, fake citations found in AI ethics guide, ideas for 2026, Roomba maker goes bankrupt, and more
5. 15 DecStart Up No.2580: Ukrainians sue US chip firms over Russian drones, the pricey robot chef, dopers are beating the testers, and more
6. 12 DecStart Up No.2579: South Korea’s population collapse (and Switzerland too?), Disney chums up with OpenAI (not Google), and more
7. 11 DecStart Up No.2578: Instacart’s dynamic pricing squeeze, the cancer-causing sperm donor, Google search remedies finalised, and more
8. 10 DecStart Up No.2577: Australia’s child social media ban starts, a fentanyl vaccine?, misdiagnosed by LLM, the RAM wars start, and more
9. 9 DecStart Up No.2576: Apple’s Srouji to stay!, Google does XR glasses (again), ICEBlock creator sues US government, and more
10. 8 DecStart Up No.2575: anatomy of a scam call, Middle East climate risks, Apple execs get restive, bar code price lies, and more
11. 5 DecStart Up No.2574: chatbots as political persuaders, 3D-printed part crashes small plane, Alan Dye redux, AI browsing?, and more
12. 4 DecStart Up No.2573: Trump warms to geothermal, Apple swaps out head of AI (and design), the world of digital guitar amps, and more
13. 3 DecStart Up No.2572: OpenAI calls “code red” over Google Gemini, UK mulls ban on political crypto, ragebait advertising, and more
14. 2 DecStart Up No.2571: your smartphone as a house, is language thinking?, Airbus’s A320 problem, hackers (mostly) grow out of it, and more
15. 1 DecStart Up No.2570: three years of ChatGPT, who’s hacking Apple’s Podcasts app?, the AI music conundrum, LinkedIn bros, and more

November 2025

1. 28 NovStart Up No.2569: China gears up with AI and robots, Warners partners with Suno, the end of cervical cancer?, and more
2. 27 NovStart Up No.2568: TSMC sues Intel executive, OpenAI blames teen for suicide, EV owners face per-mile tax, VaticanOS, and more
3. 26 NovStart Up No.2567: memory prices rocket as AI boom eats supply, US students and TikTok news, why and how states began, and more
4. 25 NovStart Up No.2566: don’t mix AI and children, Mumbai’s data centre problem, the myth of penicillin’s discovery, and more
5. 24 NovStart Up No.2565: Meta accused of burying harm data, double trouble with passwords, a dim future for the Sun?, inflatable ISS!, and more
6. 21 NovStart Up No.2564: Windows struggles with its AI future, the judge banned from using US firms, AirDrop to.. Android?, and more
7. 20 NovStart Up No.2563: America’s descent towards idiocracy, Dutch government gives Nexperia back to China, Samsung??, and more
8. 19 NovStart Up No.2562: Cloudflare collapses chunks of the internet, Google CEO warns of bubble risk, Meta wins antitrust trial, and more
9. 18 NovStart Up No.2561: UK hacker must repay £4m after celebrity Twitter hacks, fixing Britain, is the Mac Pro over?, bird flu back, and more
10. 17 NovStart Up No.2560: the web’s continual refusal to die, Anthropic’s hacking claim queried, bad AI toys!, 300 billion 1c problems, and more
11. 14 NovStart Up No.2559: UK retailer foresees big AI job cuts, stock market defeats ‘Big Short’ fund, lupus virus identified, and more
12. 13 NovStart Up No.2558: iPhone Air faces its biggest test, Flock’s cameras are public, China’s EV market on the edge, and more
13. 12 NovStart Up No.2557: AI’s odd struggle to sound toxic, US children’s bad education, why less AI means a faster phone, and more
14. 11 NovStart Up No.2556: after the AI bubble, Nvidia tiptoes into quantum, Apple says no ads on TV, AI to sort prison releases?, and more
15. 10 NovStart Up No.2555: when Steve Jobs mulled adverts in macOS, is Musk’s $1 trillion real?, FBI subpoenas mystery archive site, and more
16. 7 NovStart Up No.2554: Meta earned about $16bn on scam ads in 2024, the no-follower world, Brazil’s emissions (and fires) drop, and more
17. 6 NovStart Up No.2553: the age of anti-social media begins, Internet Archive’s next steps, TurboTax gets free rival killed, and more
18. 5 NovStart Up No.2552: Apple plans cheap laptop, life delivering parcels, crooked ransomware negotiators, uranium v RAM, and more
19. 4 NovStart Up No.2551: Tesla sued over door handle fire deaths, Ukraine’s drone incentive, 23 hours of Drake a day?, and more
20. 3 NovStart Up No.2550: how the US AI bubble could deflate, AI musicians chart, media’s lost trust, phone thieves and flowerbeds, and more

October 2025

1. 31 OctStart Up No.2549: Israel’s peculiar cloud contract, a $1trn OpenAI float?, chimps can change their minds, and more
2. 30 OctStart Up No.2548: Nvidia value leaps on potential China deal, the podcast life, EU carmakers face chip stop, and more
3. 29 OctStart Up No.2547: 1X launches “humanoid robot” for the home, Nvidia invests in.. Nokia?, wind saved UK £104bn, and more
4. 28 OctStart Up No.2546: Grokipedia launches (and crashes), immersive soccer for Apple?, AI coffee shops, Nike’s exoskeleton shoe, and more
5. 27 OctStart Up No.2545: Myanmar Army shuts scam centre, Sora’s fetish problem, lithium’s mining crash, Apple’s £1.5 bn fine, and more
6. 24 OctStart Up No.2544: the real North Korean lifestyle, the Filipinos controlling Japan’s robots, how we sleep, hearing the heart, and more
7. 23 OctStart Up No.2543: BBC study finds AI news summary flaws, Amazon’s wish for robot workers, the ‘zero crime’ Ring?, and more
8. 22 OctStart Up No.2542: OpenAI launches its chat browser, Europol dismantles SIM farm network, Meta beats NSO in court, and more
9. 21 OctStart Up No.2541: AWS’s Achilles heel, eye implants show promise, using Meta’s smart glasses, mRNA slows cancer, and more
10. 20 OctStart Up No.2540: Apple buys US Formula 1 rights, everything’s pivoting to video, psychology’s failed experiments, and more
11. 17 OctStart Up No.2539: US’s growth divergence, Cloudflare fights Google AI, news slop worsens, barrister uses fake AI ‘cases’, and more
12. 16 OctStart Up No.2538: the scary future of AI-driven scams, when the interview hacks you, Ofcom fines 4chan, and more
13. 15 OctStart Up No.2537: Google Pixel Fold burns up rig test, Windows 10 lives on, how to prompt Sora 2, Tories v Brexit, and more
14. 14 OctStart Up No.2536: Apple drops Home Office lawsuit, climate passes a tipping point, Russia’s AI TV satire, it’s Apple TV!, and more
15. 13 OctStart Up No.2535: Australia’s school smartphone ban two years later, ruining Amazon, the Chinese electrostate, Windows AI, and more
16. 10 OctStart Up No.2534: Amazon’s advertising compulsion, LLMs as forecasters, the US pedestrian death mystery, and more
17. 9 OctStart Up No.2533: Apple bans ICE video archive app, Bank warns of AI bubble, EU drops chat surveillance demand, and more
18. 8 OctStart Up No.2532: Denmark plans under-15 social media ban, Ted Cruz v Wikipedia, Sora 2 flood begins, ICEBlock redux, and more
19. 7 OctStart Up No.2531: the AI news theft sites, a cognitive periodic table?, Apple melts on ICE, Korea’s lost backup, and more
20. 6 OctStart Up No.2530: chatbots’ illusory tourism, turn on Chrome’s built-in LLM, Musk fans keep getting crypto scammed, and more
21. 3 OctStart Up No.2529: chatbot childminders, hackers make Asahi run dry, the smart glasses race, Meta faces $8bn privacy fine, and more
22. 2 OctStart Up No.2528: UK spies demands iCloud backdoor again, Sora 2 launches controversy, Afghansistan back online, and more
23. 1 OctStart Up No.2527: Imgur geoblocks UK over Online Safety Act, Afghanistan cuts internet, AI actress gets backlash, and more

September 2025

1. 30 SepStart Up No.2526: Electronic Arts bought out for $52.5bn, ChatGPT will be a sales channel, would you eat tempeh?, and more
2. 29 SepStart Up No.2525: why and how the rich want to be immortal, a drunk Waymo?, JLR gets £1.5bn lifeline, the free TV that isn’t, and more
3. 26 SepStart Up No.2524: Instagram criticised over teen safety features, the AI radiology boom, Amazon settles Prime lawsuit, and more
4. 25 SepStart Up No.2523: gene therapy used for Huntington cure, the newsletter life, why Iranian etiquette defeats LLMs, and more
5. 24 SepStart Up No.2522: EU might end cookie popups, the SIM farm spam plague, Ukraine’s AI-powered drones, and more
6. 23 SepStart Up No.2521: why great companies fall, DOJ seeks Google adtech breakup, Nvidia to pump $100bn into OpenAI, and more
7. 22 SepStart Up No.2520: trying Meta’s smart glasses, trouble with smart TVs, Trump’s H1B visa shakedown, fixing Africa’s cables, and more
8. 19 SepStart Up No.2519: Nvidia puts $5bn into Intel to beat AMD, US’s $40bn fossil subsidy, Samsung pushes ads onto its fridges, and more
9. 18 SepStart Up No.2518: China bans Nvidia chips, an Apple netbook?, Liquid Glass reviewed, American credit scores fall, and more
10. 17 SepStart Up No.2517: the AI child’s toy, how climate politics died, Meta creates own political wing, Michigan tries to ban porn, and more
11. 16 SepStart Up No.2516: US says TikTok transfer sorted, are these the “Turbulent Twenties”?, the death of dictionaries, and more
12. 15 SepStart Up No.2515: the online spiral tightens, engagement farming for profit, why Netflix can’t make good movies, and more
13. 12 SepStart Up No.2514: EU users won’t get AirPods translation, the online reaction to Charlie Kirk, Taiwan protects its sea cables, and more
14. 11 SepStart Up No.2513: our unique smartphones, Danes find drug dealers on Snapchat, brainstorming chatbots, and more
15. 10 SepStart Up No.2512: California limits “addictive feeds” for children, the podcast implosion/ explosion, chess’s record writer, and more
16. 9 SepStart Up No.2511: UK looks to widen Online Safety Act, BBC ends premium phone voting, Google says web in “decline”, and more
17. 8 SepStart Up No.2510: the man behind Velvet Sundown, the fake AI doctors, wind farms sue Trump admin, Blooooski, and more
18. 5 SepStart Up No.2509: Starmer hints at digital ID, Google scrubs net zero promise, the AI slop video boom, Islamic LLMs, and more
19. 4 SepStart Up No.2508: Xi and Putin dream of living forever, Wi-Fi measures heart rate, GLP-1 microdosers, Instagram on iPad!, and more
20. 3 SepStart Up No.2507: Google gets off lightly on antitrust remedies, France’s unpolluting diesels, the sideloading dilemma, and more
21. 2 SepStart Up No.2506: OnlyFans piracy takedown woes, the sideloading conundrum, Google says Gmail secure, N2O drivers, and more
22. 1 SepStart Up No.2505: Meta’s flirty celeb chatbots, Google faces EU adtech fine, AI stethoscope checks for heart conditions, and more

August 2025

1. 29 AugStart Up No.2504: US CDC director fired for vaccine defence, Google has AI video for all, bye TypePad, Apple’s 2nm grab, and more
2. 28 AugStart Up No.2503: Anthropic’s Claude helps hacker’s extortion, can Democrat influencers.. influence?, VR retail woes, and more
3. 27 AugStart Up No.2502: parents file lawsuit over ChatGPT “suicide”, an AI-written Wikipedia?, 16 years of Intel missteps, and more
4. 26 AugStart Up No.2501: the silence of the AI companies, Google inches towards verified developers, Citizen’s AI crimes, and more
5. 25 AugStart Up No.2500: Russia churns out fake political news, YouTube trials AI editing, Meta to offer $800 smart glasses, and more
6. 22 AugStart Up No.2499: Meta chatbot deludes ill man, Trump strips satellite data, let’s vibe code!, the TikTok question, “AI journalism”, and more
7. 21 AugStart Up No.2498: Meta accused of inflating Shop ad data, how AI search really works, Sony bumps PS5 prices, and more
8. 20 AugStart Up No.2497: UK drops Apple decryption demand, Softbank invests in Intel, Threads v Twitter, tracking AI chips, and more
9. 19 AugStart Up No.2496: AI’s mass delusion, the Vision Pro’s immersive problem, Trump mulls 10% stake in Intel, scammed!, and more
10. 18 AugStart Up No.2495: plastics treaty talks fail, the Wikipedian promotion, why science fraud happens, hating AI, and more
11. 1 AugStart Up No.2494: UK age verification use spikes, Cook hints at AI buy, Minnesota hacked, 40 jobs at risk of AI, and more

July 2025

1. 31 JulStart Up No.2493: Google flaw makes results vanish, Zuckerberg foresees superintelligent AI, the quantum debate, and more
2. 30 JulStart Up No.2492: Hertz AI damage checker under suspicion, Wyoming to build huge data centre, MS by bacteria?, and more
3. 29 JulStart Up No.2491: UK’s age check hassle deepens, Tea breach worsens, Silicon Valley’s billionXers, how long Napster?, and more
4. 28 JulStart Up No.2490: VPN use soars in UK after safety law, Microsoft stops China teams on defence work, aged by heat, and more
5. 25 JulStart Up No.2489: Trump gets ideological over chatbots, the teen smartphone gamblers, iOS 26 in public beta, unseen nulls, and more
6. 24 JulStart Up No.2488: satellites find Myanmar’s scam centres, Ferrari vs electric car, where the lost bags end up, and more
7. 23 JulStart Up No.2487: UK government mulls easing Apple encryption rule, Amazon buys Bee AI, how India got so chippy, and more
8. 22 JulStart Up No.2486: Meta’s water wars, rogue AI zaps work database, Apple sues YouTuber, Netflix steps into AI, and more
9. 21 JulStart Up No.2485: human beats AI at coding (finally?), the perplexed MAGA bots, vote like it’s 1996, the satellite rush, and more
10. 18 JulStart Up No.2484: Zuckerberg avoids court date, what people think of AI, the regularity of John, the corrupt bitcoin cop, and more
11. 17 JulStart Up No.2483: vanmaker quits hydrogen cells, life inside OpenAI, the tyranny of government numbers, and more
12. 16 JulStart Up No.2482: US military pours $600m into “agentic AI”, Epstein’s missing prison time, train brake hacking trouble, and more
13. 15 JulStart Up No.2481: semaglutide hits life insurance, Google’s “knowledge bottles”, measles return, the rare earths war, and more
14. 14 JulStart Up No.2480: trouble with chatbots, Netherlands struggles with electricity demand, honeytraps still work, and more
15. 11 JulStart Up No.2479: police arrest five over ransomware, the mystery of film paybacks, Clorox ❤️ AI (colleges don’t), and more
16. 10 JulStart Up No.2478: YouTube updates policies against AI video slop, Grok derails (again), Strava leaks (again), and more
17. 9 JulStart Up No.2477: Mystery of Rubio deepfaker, the true Post Office villains, the AI interviewers, Apple deputy stepping aside, and more
18. 8 JulStart Up No.2476: Napster tries again (now with AI), Threads is catching X, Mediterranean Sea roasts, US measles surges, and more
19. 7 JulStart Up No.2475: TikTok heads for legal US version, the ML book with false citations, the fake-will fraudsters, and more
20. 4 JulStart Up No.2474: AI finds recipe for cooler paint, survival in India’s heatwave, the AI bots taking over video meetings, and more
21. 3 JulStart Up No.2473: News service demands AI checks journalist “bias”, the old-time influencers, the Indian job scammer, and more
22. 2 JulStart Up No.2472: OpenAI boss hits at Meta’s poaching, why honeybees are dying in the US, the men behind porn deepfaking, and more
23. 1 JulStart Up No.2471: global warming is accelerating, Spotify lets AI band play on, Anthropic or OpenAI for Siri?, and more

June 2025

1. 30 JunStart Up No.2470: a tollbooth for AI?, EU aims to ban carry-on luggage fees, Luke Littler’s darts world, swearing lessens pain?, and more
2. 27 JunStart Up No.2469: BBC introduces paywall in US, Google offers publishers “Offerwall”, female four-minute mile unbroken, and more
3. 26 JunStart Up No.2468: the AI homogeneity, Trump Phone not “made in America” shock, NYC election based on cars, and more
4. 25 JunStart Up No.2467: how MrBeast does it, the phone that isn’t, get a landline!, US judge rules books are food for LLMs, and more
5. 24 JunStart Up No.2466: Tesla launches robotaxi service, the air fuel cooking oil scam, a stem cell diabetes cure?, and more
6. 23 JunStart Up No.2465: the interstices of our data, the people who vanish, the end of AI Doom?, screen ear wax for Parkinsons, and more
7. 20 JunStart Up No.2464: Chinese AI avatars show big influence, tech support scam is back, 16bn passwords?, the missing 11th, and more
8. 19 JunStart Up No.2463: LA residents stay ahead of ICE via Amazon, does Iran have nukes?, Google’s monopoly question, and more
9. 18 JunStart Up No.2462: when facial recognition goes wrong, peer review goes Naturally transparent, Apple bets big on F1, and more
10. 17 JunStart Up No.2461: Meta’s AI chat mess, WhatsApp to get ads, disliking Copilot, Trump’s Chinese-made American mobile, and more
11. 16 JunStart Up No.2460: ChatGPT’s deluded users, Israel’s secret drone attack, a BBC paywall?, how Canada will thin the US, and more
12. 13 JunStart Up No.2459: Wikipedia editors reject AI summaries, Tesla’s Robotaxi delayed (!), Disney sues Midjourney, and more
13. 12 JunStart Up No.2458: WhatsApp backs Apple in encryption case, who really wants an AI phone?, France’s hazelnut spread wars, and more
14. 11 JunStart Up No.2457: Meta spends big for “superintelligence”, the bots crushing websites, outrage..doesn’t pay?, and more
15. 10 JunStart Up No.2456: Apple goes glassy (and disses AI), Cambridge team solves 600-year-old murder, the tiniest GPS, and more
16. 9 JunStart Up No.2455: how 2017’s US tax law kills tech jobs, Apple’s comma problem, DOGE’s flawed AI, testing Alexa+, and more
17. 6 JunStart Up No.2454: court forces OpenAI to save chat logs, Britain to go nuclear (finally), getting windy, LLMs and bugs, and more
18. 5 JunStart Up No.2453: genetics startups offers embryo ranking, Apple loses app store appeal, Israel’s flawed killer algorithm, and more
19. 4 JunStart Up No.2452: how Ukraine’s AI drones evade jamming, police and thieves and Apple and Google, animal cloning, and more
20. 3 JunStart Up No.2451: but what if Google were broken up?, China’s sodium battery scooters, Amazon’s coding warehouse, and more
21. 2 JunStart Up No.2450: Ukraine changes the war again, will AI kill Stack Overflow – or new jobs?, why the Black Death killed less, and more

May 2025

1. 30 MayStart Up No.2449: Trump team uses chatbot to write report, did Dieselgate pollution kill 16,000?, Apple’s new years, and more
2. 29 MayStart Up No.2448: the trouble with TV, how to make a (short) film with AI, the Oxford solution to chatbots, glacier collapses, and more
3. 28 MayStart Up No.2447: why radiation scares us too much, more bitcoin kidnap arrests, AI changes the face of dating, and more
4. 27 MayStart Up No.2446: Clegg dismisses artist concerns on copyright, the CIA’s Star Wars site, ChatGPT o3 seems sneaky, and more
5. 26 MayStart Up No.2445: Silicon Valley’s hobbit obsession, the authors getting AI help, life (and poverty) on YouTube, and more
6. 23 MayStart Up No.2444: hints of Ive’s gadget appear, smart glasses for Apple?, how to soften your beep, being Ammortalised, and more
7. 22 MayStart Up No.2443: OpenAI buys Jony Ive and company, how robots displace South Korea’s chefs, Fortnite is back!, and more
8. 21 MayStart Up No.2442: Google I/O heavy with AI updates, US v China redux, let Mastercard pay *you*, why projects overrun, and more
9. 20 MayStart Up No.2441: Judge hassles Apple on Fortnite block, China’s rise, Uber invents the bus, how Windows lives on, and more
10. 19 MayStart Up No.2440: getting smartphones out of schools, Spotify’s scam podcasts, Vision Pro aged 1 v Watch aged 10, and more
11. 17 MayStart Up No.2439: Musk AI goes on “genocide” rant, China’s emissions dwindle, VPN buyer gets a lifetime of trouble, and more
12. 15 MayStart Up No.2438: Anthropic uses hallucinated legal citation, YouTube acts on AI film “trailers”, how AI slop targets older women, and more
13. 14 MayStart Up No.2437: how scamming became pervasive, crypto kidnap attempt foiled, the US’s missing mass shootings, and more
14. 13 MayStart Up No.2436: Coca-Cola chatbot hallucinates Ballard, Google’s AI scraping tactics, Jony Ive thinks different, and more
15. 12 MayStart Up No.2435: half of LLM use said to be for coding, brief chatbots go wrong, Cybertruck stocks keep rising, and more
16. 9 MayStart Up No.2434: Gates criticises Musk’s aid cuts, the Apple/Google search puzzle, is this a time of cultural collapse?, and more
17. 8 MayStart Up No.2433: Apple says search is shrinking, cardinals prep on Conclave, Instagram’s lying chatbots, and more
18. 7 MayStart Up No.2432: Tulsi Gabbard’s terrible opsec, US cabinet’s terrible opsec, Google fights search antitrust, why archers don’t volley, and more
19. 6 MayStart Up No.2431: the chatbots fuelling delusion, Apple appeals on App Store, deepfake site shuts down, sayonara Skype, and more
20. 5 MayStart Up No.2430: ransomware hits UK high street retailers, US wants Google ad breakup, Firefox doomed?, Reddit complains, and more

April 2025

1. 18 AprStart Up No.2429: Google loses US advertising antitrust case, LG’s “emotional” TV ads, Japan bets on stem cells, and more
2. 17 AprStart Up No.2428: US targets Nvidia’s China exports, is Snapchat harming children?, 4chan vanishes, chatbot partners, and more
3. 16 AprStart Up No.2427: how Zuckerberg tried to bargain away antitrust trial, the dispute over Grok’s name, science lessons, and more
4. 15 AprStart Up No.2426: Zuckerberg emails in antitrust trial, peak oil demand, the mysterious Windows folder, a unified field theory?, and more
5. 14 AprStart Up No.2425: smartphones evade US tariffs (or not?), AI offers to help run reactors, why Musk is wrong about SSA fraud, and more
6. 11 AprStart Up No.2424: the discord inside Apple’s Siri group, Meta whistleblower sounds off, NSO’s target list, anti-herpes gum?, and more
7. 10 AprStart Up No.2423: Ofcom investigates suicide forum, OpenAI accidentally helps spammers, an FOI to unmask Satoshi? , and more
8. 9 AprStart Up No.2422: UK police work on “Minority Report” predictor, Nvidia faces up to tariffs, Eliza’s revenge (or success), and more
9. 8 AprStart Up No.2421: UK can’t keep Apple case secret, is the real tariff target China?, return of the dire wolf (sort of), and more
10. 7 AprStart Up No.2420: how the Signal debacle happened, TikTok gets 75 more days, $1bn fine for X?, Black Mirror returns, and more
11. 4 AprStart Up No.2419: will tariffs raise iPhone prices?, UK preps retaliation, Meta does VR deal with UFC, AI bots wallop Wikimedia, and more
12. 3 AprStart Up No.2418: how Apple’s UK encryption appeal works, the semantic apocalypse, BYD soars, shingles v dementia?, and more
13. 2 AprStart Up No.2417: open-source genome database shuts, the real price of cheap TVs, peering inside an LLM, poor Britain?, and more
14. 1 AprStart Up No.2416: why the SSA code rewrite will fail, a Twitter data leak?, designing an interstellar ship, Gen X’s bleak prospects, and more

March 2025

1. 31 MarStart Up No.2415: Java to kill COBOL at DOGE command, a Healthier iOS 19?, the failure of the Alan Turing Institute, and more
2. 28 MarStart Up No.2414: OpenAI halts Studio Ghibli-style generation, Facebook de-slops new app version, Schmidt on AI, and more
3. 27 MarStart Up No.2413: a new antibiotic found, solar windows for office buildings, DOGE’s cybercrime helper, Signalgate+, and more
4. 26 MarStart Up No.2412: AI finds new help for rare diseases, even the best get phished, Signal war chat row rumbles on, and more
5. 25 MarStart Up No.2411: Trump team includes journalist in Houthi plans, 23andMe faces extinction, China’s cable cutter, and more
6. 24 MarStart Up No.2410: UK user forces Meta to stop tracking her, is AI killing programming jobs?, toward personal net zero, and more
7. 21 MarStart Up No.2409: Meta’s book piracy revealed, Apple to shuffle Siri execs, TV+ losing big (but who cares), let bird flu rip?, and more
8. 20 MarStart Up No.2408: BYD pauses Mexico plant, Pebble’s iOS complaint, H5N1 still bad, what *is* an AI agent?, and more
9. 19 MarStart Up No.2407: what price semaglutide?, Apple’s vulnerable Passwords, Pebble is back!, the trouble with car parks, and more
10. 18 MarStart Up No.2406: AI slop’s attack on social media, don’t trust the chatbots!, US rural broadband faces cuts, and more
11. 17 MarStart Up No.2405: has brain power peaked?, Substack hits five million subs, Siri team reassures itself, zonal electric!, and more
12. 14 MarStart Up No.2404: AI shows the rot inside Apple, OpenAI pleads for copyright exemption, how VR can help prisoners, and more
13. 13 MarStart Up No.2403: Meta injuncts book about life inside Meta, get strong like a 90yo, how schoolkids use ChatGPT, and more
14. 12 MarStart Up No.2402: why global warming is bad for satellites, VW brings back the knobs, AI v the PDFs, X dDOS in detail, and more
15. 11 MarStart Up No.2401: Wikipedia’s photo problem, the trouble with car doors, how to kill 2G, how UV could kill airborne bugs, and more
16. 10 MarStart Up No.2400: Europe frets over US arms kill switch, coffee trade slows, DOGE replaces staff with chatbot, and more
17. 7 MarStart Up No.2399: the Georgians behind the celebrity scam ads, can AI reinvent media?, UK attack drones for Ukraine, and more
18. 6 MarStart Up No.2398: US turns off Ukraine missile guidance, Google pleas to keep Chrome, coffee prices hike, Musk v Wikipedia, and more
19. 5 MarStart Up No.2397: the new age of sabotage, AI search results pushing out clickthroughs, YouTube dominates podcasts, and more
20. 4 MarStart Up No.2396: UK probes TikTok and Reddit over data privacy, Sergey Brin pushes Google on AI, new MacBook Airs?, and more
21. 3 MarStart Up No.2395: Citigroup’s $8.1 trillion error, Musk fires government coding group, Trump boosts crypto, and more

February 2025

1. 28 FebStart Up No.2394: AI to diagnose prostate cancer?, anti-ageing pills for dogs, Congo reports new killer illness from bats, and more
2. 27 FebStart Up No.2393: Microsoft awaits AI’s Excel moment, Chinese ship chops cable off Taiwan, Alexa gets new smarts, and more
3. 26 FebStart Up No.2392: edtech company sues over Google AI overviews, Amazon kills its Zoom, Taiwan opposes tech transfer, and more
4. 25 FebStart Up No.2391: Apple re-promises US investment, Perplexity promises AI browser, asteroid YR24 vs the moon?, and more
5. 24 FebStart Up No.2390: Apple and ADP, do we need another IPCC report?, HP ends 15-minute phone wait (maybe?), let’s diff!, and more
6. 21 FebStart Up No.2389: the pig butchers and Elkhart’s banker, Apple to use own Wi-Fi chips, electric truck company goes bust, and more
7. 20 FebStart Up No.2388: how the right wing won internet culture, to kill an asteroid, Apple’s new modem, AI cheats, and more
8. 19 FebStart Up No.2387: the new propaganda rulers, senior Intel engineer vetoes TSMC, asteroid odds worsen (for us), Grok 3?, and more
9. 18 FebStart Up No.2386: the danger of AI persuaders, Meta’s strange expanding Horizon, Europe’s coming realignment, and more
10. 17 FebStart Up No.2385: Broadcom and TSMC eye Intel buy, deepfake speech in five seconds, why sleep is the brain’s dishwasher, and more
11. 14 FebStart Up No.2384: estimating YouTube’s size and viewers, remembering Tim Radford, H5N1 spreading silently?, and more
12. 13 FebStart Up No.2383: the talkative AI future, Johansson demands deepfake law, AI summaries no good for news, and more
13. 12 FebStart Up No.2382: Wikipedia fears Musk attack, the UK without iCloud?, let’s buy a landfill!, AI looks inside cells, and more
14. 11 FebStart Up No.2381: the UK government’s big mistake with Apple, Mars the impossible, Christie’s AI art auction anger, and more
15. 10 FebStart Up No.2380: US government experts fret over Musk incursion, Macron’s AI worry, MPs dislike carbon capture cost, and more
16. 7 FebStart Up No.2379: Apple preps table robot for.. 2027?, US senators want DeepSeek ban, hydrogen buses whimper out, and more
17. 6 FebStart Up No.2378: Amazon’s upgraded Alexa on the way?, the Politico conspiracy nuts, Sonos cuts 200, free electricity homes, and more
18. 5 FebStart Up No.2377: the case for tech antitrust, Doom on an Apple adapter, a Mars question, Internet Archive saves CDC data, and more
19. 4 FebStart Up No.2376: life after Ozempic, Greenland is melting faster, persuasive chatbots, is Apple sclerotic?, US’s data purge, and more
20. 3 FebStart Up No.2375: Zuckerberg warns Meta leakers, how to fix the journal cartel, Quartz gets sloppy, chatbot fight!, and more

January 2025

1. 31 JanStart Up No.2374: a risky new asteroid, Meta settles Trump lawsuit, certifying human authors, unflattening the music, and more
2. 30 JanStart Up No.2373: Apple Intelligence’s undesigned features, the joys of JPEGXL, DeepSeek’s self-censorship, and more
3. 29 JanStart Up No.2372: White House gets paranoid over DeepSeek, Google Maps’s American gulf, the battery build-out, and more
4. 28 JanStart Up No.2371: everything you wanted to know about DeepSeek, tech stocks fall, who’ll buy Intel?, X debt for sale, and more
5. 27 JanStart Up No.2370: another undersea cable attacked, the Tesla asteroid, Deezer claims AI-busting patents, using ChatGPT, and more
6. 24 JanStart Up No.2369: the trouble with Siri, the modern media landscape, crypto gets its own EO, Fitbit fined for hot watches, and more
7. 23 JanStart Up No.2368: are Apple, Meta and Samsung working on “AirPod cameras”?, solar backpacks in Africa, AI mistakes, and more
8. 22 JanStart Up No.2367: China releases “reasoning” local LLM, games for Vision Pro?, how Community Notes were made, and more
9. 21 JanStart Up No.2366: US police test new photo geolocation tool, why breaking the status quo is good, ban my TikTok!, and more
10. 20 JanStart Up No.2365: US turns TikTok off and on again, bus cameras catch dangerous drivers, can DOGE do less?, and more
11. 17 JanStart Up No.2364: Google won’t fact-check in EU, Biden punts TikTok to Trump, Rednote mulls walling off US users, and more
12. 16 JanStart Up No.2363: the online AI “boyfriend”, TikTok’s clock ticks down, FTC sues John Deere over repairs, and more
13. 15 JanStart Up No.2362: Sonos fires product leader who approved dire app, Apple ready for TSMC US chips, Meta to cut 5%, and more
14. 14 JanStart Up No.2361: UK government talks big on AI, stop quantifying research!, Tubi (please not Tubi), Reach overreaches, and more
15. 13 JanStart Up No.2360: our antisocial lives, VW’s giant data leak, the H5N1 primer, the ads filling streaming, TfL kills train map, and more

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December 2024

1. 20 DecStart Up No.2359: Spotify and the “ghost artists”, Craig Wright sentenced for contempt, Google’s misleading asylum data, and more
2. 19 DecStart Up No.2358: Apple and Nvidia in surprise LLM collaboration, California frets over bird flu, TikTok heads to SCOTUS, and more
3. 18 DecStart Up No.2357: how Netflix took over our screens, the mystery of our slow brains, Threads hits 100 million daily users, and more
4. 17 DecStart Up No.2356: UK Online Safety Act begins to bite, Amazon accused of warehouse safety risks, insistent chatbots, and more
5. 16 DecStart Up No.2355: AI and the science puzzle, Google’s lost moonshots, bird flu gets jumpy, Ev Williams’s new social app?, and more
6. 13 DecStart Up No.2354: Sora’s video keeps improving, Turing Test returns, malign mirror microbes?, YouTube TV ups price again, and more
7. 12 DecStart Up No.2353: Onion purchase of Infowars blocked, Turing staff in “open revolt”, Google rolls out AI agents, and more
8. 11 DecStart Up No.2352: how WhatsApp took over the world, GM halts its robotaxis, Apple’s 5G modem?, the killer chatbot, and more
9. 10 DecStart Up No.2351: our upturned media landscape, TikTok fails to halt US axe, Bluesky gets spam, seize that plane!, and more
10. 9 DecStart Up No.2350: internet detectives sit on hands over Thompson killing, why own bitcoin?, the AI ceiling, ISS 2030+?, and more
11. 6 DecStart Up No.2349: why generative AI isn’t a search engine, bitcoin hits new high, has the UK hit peak petrol?, and more
12. 5 DecStart Up No.2348: UK cracks Russian crypto money laundering gang, Australia’s solar surplus, better AI weather forecasts?, and more
13. 4 DecStart Up No.2347: OpenAI blames ‘glitch’ for Unsayable names, FTC blocks location data seller, a Verge subscription?, and more
14. 3 DecStart Up No.2346: ChatGPT’s unsayable names list grows, South Korea gets robotic, what wearables should say, and more
15. 2 DecStart Up No.2345: the trouble with the LLM business, the mystery of David Mayer, the cult of the geek, the Bluesky boom, and more

November 2024

1. 29 NovStart Up No.2344: TikTok queried over Romanian election result, verify Bluesky!, Australia hits social media, and more
2. 28 NovStart Up No.2343: Chinese ship suspected of internet cable cuts, Musk gets xAI value boost, DNA beats lie detectors, and more
3. 27 NovStart Up No.2342: against a DOJ breakup of Google, X lays claim to Infowars on.. X, the trouble with Mars, and more
4. 26 NovStart Up No.2341: OpenAI taunts NYT over “lost” data, Google ponders Apple’s ad plans, Pakistan bans WhatsApp, and more
5. 25 NovStart Up No.2340: reading past the headlines, what Bluesky needs next, how people are using chatbots, suicide hold music, and more
6. 22 NovStart Up No.2339: Google pushes big sites out of “reviews”, a personal AI Jesus, building a better drone, bird flu redux, and more
7. 21 NovStart Up No.2338: Nvidia revenue keeps rocketing, the suspicious robot “kidnapping”, global internet growth stalls, and more
8. 20 NovStart Up No.2337: EU regulator calls for less tech regulation, Bluesky passes 20m, Affleck sees AI raising output, and more
9. 19 NovStart Up No.2336: DOJ said to seek Chrome split, did Russia cut undersea internet?, RFK Jr v civilisation, the AI poet, and more
10. 18 NovStart Up No.2335: is the Bluesky Xodus a serious problem?, the fluoridation question, Onion sure it has Infowars, and more
11. 15 NovStart Up No.2334: LLMs start to hit their scaling limit, US media confronts its election miss, BlueSky visualised, and more
12. 14 NovStart Up No.2333: Musk irks Trump cadre, cycling’s new “doping”, 23andme chops staff, Russia’s “Deathonomics”, and more
13. 13 NovStart Up No.2332: bitcoin hits a new high, the AI translator cometh, how ChatGPT is killing Chegg, needing nuclear, and more
14. 12 NovStart Up No.2331: LG shows off stretchable display, the weight loss drugs of Instagram, Twitter or TV for Trump?, and more
15. 11 NovStart Up No.2330: why the Internet of Things failed, TSMC blocks chips to China, Mac mini reviewed, the new media, and more
16. 8 NovStart Up No.2329: the ransomware whisperer, Trump and Harris’s spend on Meta adverts, why gas sets UK electricity prices, and more
17. 7 NovStart Up No.2328: Trump can’t beat renewables, the horse parable, Sweden scraps windfarm plan, building apps with AI, and more
18. 6 NovStart Up No.2327: Coinbase crosses its election fingers, China’s huge US phone hack, Apple faces EU App Store fine, and more
19. 5 NovStart Up No.2326: the coming AI e-waste problem, microbe methane mayhem, TikTok’s gendered election, and more
20. 4 NovStart Up No.2325: OpenAI study shows chatbot inaccuracy, the shoplifter class, a chatbot ran my life, eat less sugar!, and more
21. 1 NovStart Up No.2324: creators bemoan Google’s rankings, climate worsens weather, China’s BYD overtakes Tesla, Meta slops, and more

October 2024

1. 31 OctStart Up No.2323: how Community Notes are failing the election, Facebook helps militias organise, the polling paradox, and more
2. 30 OctStart Up No.2322: Reddit finally makes a profit, X’s troublesome algorithm, life as a smartphone, Australia gets batteried, and more
3. 29 OctStart Up No.2321: child abuse deepfake maker jailed, Strava leaks leaders’ locations, Russia pushed hurricane disinfo, and more
4. 28 OctStart Up No.2320: the BBC’s disinformation beater, Atlantic approaches a tipping point, the TfL cyberattack, and more
5. 25 OctStart Up No.2319: planet barrels towards 2.9ºC of warming, how fraud caught Wiley out, Yugoslav’s home computers, and more
6. 24 OctStart Up No.2318: how the US could track abortion clinic visitors, ChatGPT hacked by prompt, Myanmar’s blackouts, and more
7. 23 OctStart Up No.2317: Meta suspends jet accounts, Google lawyer accused of illegality, why is AppleTV+ sold so badly?, and more
8. 22 OctStart Up No.2316: UK NHS seeks 21st century update, AI girlfriend logic, the bird flu screwup, AirPods becoming hearing aids, and more
9. 21 OctStart Up No.2315: snow failure shuts French ski resort, Vonnegut’s board game!, AI video data scraping, WordPress ‘chaos’, and more
10. 18 OctStart Up No.2314: AI’s expiration date, Bhutan’s bitcoin boom, Meta gets tough on meals, everyone back to 2004!, and more
11. 17 OctStart Up No.2313: EU says X too small to bother with, taking the AI out of your iPhone photos, Amazon goes nuclear, and more
12. 16 OctStart Up No.2312: smart garden app wilts, overconfident decision makers, hackers take over robot vacuums, nuclear Google, and more
13. 15 OctStart Up No.2311: Apple study says chatbots can’t reason, China’s quantum cracking, what Taylor Lorenz did next, and more
14. 14 OctStart Up No.2310: the misinformation chasm, Wikipedia’s AI killers, WordPress goes further, Muskworld madness, and more
15. 11 OctStart Up No.2309: the live online news desert, hackers hit “AI Girlfiend” site, the darknet’s hitmen, Netflix’s downside, and more
16. 10 OctStart Up No.2308: DoJ files Google breakup papers, FEMA fights misinfo, will Musk’s robotaxi deliver?, and more
17. 9 OctStart Up No.2307: India’s record internet blackouts, US states sue TikTok, Florida’s hurricane fear, no 23andme?, and more
18. 8 OctStart Up No.2306: China hacks US surveillance system, judge forces open Play Store, the Musk mystery, Ozempic bad?, and more
19. 7 OctStart Up No.2305: the era of zero Google outbound traffic, can ChatGPT recommend books?, the 10K run pill, and more
20. 4 OctStart Up No.2304: smart glasses hacked for facial recognition, AI doesn’t help police reports, the need for better train Wi-Fi, and more
21. 3 OctStart Up No.2303: Russia’s ‘nudify’ hackers, North Korea’s remote IT workers, BBC finds Finnish Stockport neo-Nazi, and more
22. 2 OctStart Up No.2302: Google’s $2.9bn re-hire, Signal’s Whittaker speaks out, Germany’s solar balconies, HPV vaccine’s win, and more
23. 1 OctStart Up No.2301: more on Spruce Pine and global chips, Google ❤️ SMRs?, the griefbots are coming, Epic sues Samsung, and more

September 2024

1. 30 SepStart Up No.2300: the inaccessible quartz tech needs, the AI avatar will quiz you now, TSMC goes US, a Moon telescope?, and more
2. 27 SepStart Up No.2299: Musk grumps at summit exclusion, LAPD loses to MRI, LLMs v rituals, Instagram’s coming AI feed, and more
3. 26 SepStart Up No.2298: Meta shows off AR glasses (not for sale), Masimo CEO goes, the ultrarunner caught by Wikipedia, and more
4. 25 SepStart Up No.2297: Google’s adtech monopoly, Utah goes renewable, MKBHD rethinks wallpapers, unblocked blocks?, and more
5. 24 SepStart Up No.2296: China’s Great AI Leap Forward, banks back nuclear, Ive working on AI device, the GPS spoofers, and more
6. 23 SepStart Up No.2295: Russia’s successful poker bots, Qualcomm sizes up Intel, AITA’s success, Musk cedes to Brazil, and more
7. 20 SepStart Up No.2294: the new sabotage era, AI-generated code not so great?, Google’s evasive tactics, Norway’s EV present, and more
8. 19 SepStart Up No.2293: now walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon, China IoT botnet zapped, Google offered adtech sale, and more
9. 18 SepStart Up No.2292: Instagram restricts teens, streaming keeps churning, OpenAI’s reasons to ban you, comparing blues, and more
10. 17 SepStart Up No.2291: Google’s AI garden of no delight, Amazon returns to office, how Intel lost Sony, Apple drops NSO suit, and more
11. 16 SepStart Up No.2290: US government urges Intel’s foundry use, the doomed transcriber pin, paying for cookies, dead internet, and more
12. 13 SepStart Up No.2289: AI chatbots cut conspiracy beliefs, a friend’s friend’s cat, OpenAI’s new model, Google passport?, and more
13. 12 SepStart Up No.2288: Raygun is world’s top breakdancer (really!), Google adds Waybacking, AI spots diabetes by voice, and more
14. 11 SepStart Up No.2287: the schools banning smartphones, the not-dating apps, EU wins big over Google and Apple, and more
15. 10 SepStart Up No.2286: Google adtech trial begins, Apple has new phones, the right way to charge EV cars, bitcoin’s hot baths, and more
16. 9 SepStart Up No.2285: Google search remedies in 2025?, Britain’s green summer, the NSA has a podcast, duping YouTubers, and more
17. 6 SepStart Up No.2284: the checkbox mystery, LG shows stretchable display, watching the pig butchers, buy a bunker!, and more
18. 5 SepStart Up No.2283: Internet Archive loses book copyright appeal, the games AI PCs don’t play, should EVs pay per mile?, and more
19. 4 SepStart Up No.2282: Bluesky soars, learning from coding, Teslas as witnesses, Tesla police, bird flu moves west, the oil puzzle, and more
20. 3 SepStart Up No.2281: false memories from chatbots, more on Chiang and art, HP seeks $4bn from Lynch, Oasis ticket trouble, and more
21. 2 SepStart Up No.2280: Chiang on AI art, misinformation wars, the bad cancer study, are self-driving cars coming now?, and more

August 2024

1. 30 AugStart Up No.2279: the Dome that watches you, Midjourney’s mystery thing, why a smart ring?, Spotify’s fake band problem, and more
2. 29 AugStart Up No.2278: Threads blocks ‘Covid’ searches, Section 230 sunk in TikTok trial, Durov charged, Nvidia hoarders, and more
3. 28 AugStart Up No.2277: Zuckerberg frets over Covid ‘censorship’, end of AI doomers?, a video to dry your phone, how Cameo died, and more
4. 27 AugStart Up No.2276: Gannett shuts AI-inflected review site, ChatGPT v author, Finland’s pine deaths, science’s killer fraud, and more
5. 26 AugStart Up No.2275: Telegram founder arrested, why dashboards are useful, shorthand lives!, inside Musk’s mad schemes, and more
6. 23 AugStart Up No.2274: CoPilot falsely accuses reporter of crimes, Google dodges California link tax, Netflix shows leak, and more
7. 22 AugStart Up No.2273: Harris v Trump online, the car park solar solution, Medium makes a profit, self-driving taxi night ballet, and more
8. 21 AugStart Up No.2272: Musk’s Twitter buyout the worst ever, after Google’s antitrust, video scrolling means boredom, and more
9. 20 AugStart Up No.2271: how Google Search really works, Sonos mulls app reverse, Mike Lynch missing, Humane unpinned, and more
10. 19 AugStart Up No.2270: Google’s influence on Pixel reviews, no marshmallow!, exit Twitter, glacial melt in pictures, fusion?, and more
11. 2 AugStart Up No.2269: Mike Lynch on the cost of justice, living the EV life, Antarctica swelters, Microsoft Bing v Reddit, and more
12. 1 AugStart Up No.2268: testing Apple Intelligence, wild climate, Xbox sales drop, robots v AI scrapers, Kenya’s web churches, and more

July 2024

1. 31 JulStart Up No.2267: AI search raises questions, the UPF mystery, our turbulent times, the blind Pokémon player, and more
2. 30 JulStart Up No.2266: hot days move Earth towards tipping points, Apple TV+ with ads?, French fibre cut in attack, oh Sonos, and more
3. 29 JulStart Up No.2265: SearchGPT is no panacea, searching for privacy, a penny for your driver data, the drone cheat, and more
4. 26 JulStart Up No.2264: OpenAI’s ballooning costs, AOC deepfake bill underway, did Israel block Pegasus revelation?, and more
5. 25 JulStart Up No.2263: how LLMs degenerate, Crowdstrike’s $10 miss, how news reaches us now, Chernobyl’s real effects, and more
6. 24 JulStart Up No.2262: Crowdstrike’s stricken 78 minutes, OpenAI demands NYT notes, VR’s long winter, Apple slows TV+, and more
7. 23 JulStart Up No.2261: how astronomy can spot AI-fake faces, the app that drove Kenya’s protests, clean energy’s market failure, and more
8. 22 JulStart Up No.2260: CrowdStrike’s twice-unlucky CEO, saved by Windows 3.1!, what is really news?, killer coal trains, and more
9. 19 JulStart Up No.2259: Trump’s tech supporters, Meta itches at Reality Labs losses, election forecasting, the HIV cure?, and more
10. 18 JulStart Up No.2258: US ponders China car software ban, AI revives the modular dream, Fitbit users grumble at Google, and more
11. 17 JulStart Up No.2257: Apple signs with chumboxer Taboola, might AI be good for lawyers?, Iran also had plot to kill Trump, and more
12. 16 JulStart Up No.2256: melting ice means longer days, an AI storytelling teddy bear?, Google’s noindex plan, Trump conspiracies, and more
13. 15 JulStart Up No.2255: Altman’s “AI health coach” madness, Vision Pro hits Europe, EU threatens Twitter, hell is other Martians, and more
14. 12 JulStart Up No.2254: the $11bn pig-butchering market, Apple to open up its NFC chips, the new scientific fraud, a smart ring?, and more
15. 11 JulStart Up No.2253: Microsoft and Apple nix OpenAI board, Blair’s AI blah, the Reform conspiracy, Texans v bitcoin, and more
16. 10 JulStart Up No.2252: the real AI politician, more on touchscreen HomePod, China spends big on.. fusion?, X growth slows, and more
17. 9 JulStart Up No.2251: UK voter ID’s suppression effect, French election DDOS, Google Maps’s bad ad, Earth overheating, and more
18. 8 JulStart Up No.2250: the pink slime of reputation management, fusion delayed (again), the good white roofs, no-coal Alberta, and more
19. 5 JulStart Up No.2249: Google unworried by AI distortion, Kenya protesters get smart, an Apple SuperHomePod?, bird flu redux, and more
20. 4 JulStart Up No.2248: Japan wins war on floppy disks, China and the US get big on wind, Threads hits a year and 175 million, and more
21. 3 JulStart Up No.2247: free our data Keir Starmer!, Google News likes AI spam, making batteries with salt, AirPod cameras?, and more
22. 2 JulStart Up No.2246: EU threatens Meta with DMA fine, the tech unemployment line, Florida man shoo(t)s drone, and more
23. 1 JulStart Up No.2245: user-replaceable smartphone batteries by 2027?, Facebook’s pro-Reform Russians, election times!, and more

June 2024

1. 28 JunStart Up No.2244: ID verification service hacked, astronauts avoid orbital debris, batteries power up, Olympic AI, and more
2. 27 JunStart Up No.2243: US Supreme Court backs social media, how disinformation works, Google’s bad Slides, and more
3. 26 JunStart Up No.2242: the price of AI slop writing, Project Zero’s counter-terror screwup, the intelligence question, and more
4. 25 JunStart Up No.2241: music labels sue AI generators, spot the AI!, Perplexity speaks up, the online election, and more
5. 24 JunStart Up No.2240: the UK mobile internet before data, AI pushes up US power demand, solar outpacing oil?, Hajj heat deaths, and more
6. 21 JunStart Up No.2239: Instagram’s teen video trouble, US bans Kaspersky software, Musk pleas to advertisers, and more
7. 20 JunStart Up No.2238: Qualcomm settles shareholder lawsuit, Apple lessens Vision Pro?, weight-loss jab trouble, cable TV slumps, and more
8. 19 JunStart Up No.2237: China’s internet history vanishes, Kutcher foresees AI movies, Spotify’s AI music problem, and more
9. 18 JunStart Up No.2236: funding the geoengineers, a social media health warning?, FTC sues Adobe, we bought an encyclopedia!, and more
10. 17 JunStart Up No.2235: disinformation lab shrinks, fake workers get fired, Texas sours on bitcoin, Facebook quashes publishers, and more

May 2024

1. 31 MayStart Up No.2234: AI demand means more US coal, carbon-neutral methane?, US mulls mRNA for H5N1, OpenAI seeks robots, and more
2. 30 MayStart Up No.2233: Delhi temperature hits brutal high, your AI emailing “friend”, the sheriff of disinformation, and more
3. 29 MayStart Up No.2232: Google search algorithm leaks, the AI disinformation problem, spying on the ICC, Chinese GPT spam?, and more
4. 28 MayStart Up No.2231: how early western PCs were made to work in China, traffic lights for self-driving cars?, AI headphones, and more
5. 27 MayStart Up No.2230: Google scrambles to clean up AI search, the stolen phone text scammers, life as an OnlyFans chatter, and more
6. 24 MayStart Up No.2229: Google’s degraded AI search, India’s delighted deepfaked politicians, how internet time slowed down, and more
7. 23 MayStart Up No.2228: UK privacy chief queries Microsoft Recall, Humane seeks buyer, Google to put ads alongside AI, and more
8. 22 MayStart Up No.2227: the questions about Microsoft Recall, how DeviantArt declined, Stalk My Date, how Hollywood is using AI, and more
9. 21 MayStart Up No.2226: Microsoft shows off new Arm laptops, Scarlett Johansson bites at OpenAI, can Apple News save media?, and more
10. 20 MayStart Up No.2225: linkrot hits 25% of the past decade’s links, floods in Brazil, pricing semaglutide, avian flu redux, and more
11. 17 MayStart Up No.2224: the smartphone kids, Sony Music warns AI firms, tweaking gravity, the author banned from her books, and more
12. 16 MayStart Up No.2223: the end of Google Search?, the trouble with dystopias, the emissions shell game, bad video portal!, and more
13. 15 MayStart Up No.2222: Google buffs up Gemini, websites fear AI results, China’s EV makers face 100% US tariffs, and more
14. 14 MayStart Up No.2221: OpenAI’s ‘flirty’ chatbot upgrade, Texas’s battery upgrade, making AI-generated films, scam selfies, and more
15. 13 MayStart Up No.2220: Apple plans Siri upgrade, can AI think up new TV shows?, the internet is dying (again), which music survives?, and more
16. 10 MayStart Up No.2219: pupil data taken for benefit checks, AI junk in media, Apple pulls “Crush” ad, deafness gene therapy, and more
17. 9 MayStart Up No.2218: Ofcom talks tough on internet rules for kids, Facebook’s zombie AI spam (it’s “slop”), warp drives?, and more
18. 8 MayStart Up No.2217: TikTok claims First Amendment protection, Clippy lives!, the iPad explosion, SE Asia’s heatwave, and more
19. 7 MayStart Up No.2216: Rabbit R1’s web3 history uncovered, teens and AI bots, Tesla cuts more staff, delve into ChatGPT, and more
20. 6 MayStart Up No.2215: faked AI voices get better, Apple’s AI plans, the SEO schemes murdering search, Ilkley Moor bahtat?, and more
21. 3 MayStart Up No.2214: WhatsApp threatens India exit, on TSMC’s culture shock, Peloton CEO steps down, Rabbit reviewed, and more
22. 2 MayStart Up No.2213: Chatbot Claude comes to iOS, the home page returns, the Rabbit R1 as Android app?, BT’s EV charge push, and more
23. 1 MayStart Up No.2212: EU pressures Facebook over election ads, AI startups look for ideas, bitcoin guy charged with tax fraud, and more

April 2024

1. 30 AprStart Up No.2211: Google says AI boosts searching, bird flu virus in cows ‘for months’, China’s disinformation flop, and more
2. 29 AprStart Up No.2210: Google responds in search row, BBC presenter deepfaked for ad, the YouTube hamster wheel, and more
3. 26 AprStart Up No.2209: Gen Z’s politics v social media, why AI gives bad advice, weird AI images infest LinkedIn, and more
4. 25 AprStart Up No.2208: how Google Search died, US bans China’s TikTok, eating with Andreessen, testing the Rabbit R1, and more
5. 24 AprStart Up No.2207: TSMC’s Arizona culture clash, Apple preps new iPads, Vision Pro forecasts cut, AI poisons Reddit, and more
6. 23 AprStart Up No.2206: China tells Apple to zap messaging apps, smart TV halts PC, Amazon stops California droning, and more
7. 22 AprStart Up No.2205: the gamification of our lives, surviving hacking, India’s TV heatwave, Apple kills FineWoven cases?, and more
8. 19 AprStart Up No.2204: Tesla co-founder gets battery recycling, Google fires 28 over Israel protest, the Airchat obsession, and more
9. 18 AprStart Up No.2203: how scammers generate AI books, Humane’s laser projector revisited, the mistaken dropdown divorce, and more
10. 17 AprStart Up No.2202: the internet’s submarine repair crews, the unpaid digital butlers, reviewing for..profit, Facebook’s AI aircrew, and more
11. 16 AprStart Up No.2201: Israel’s AI targeting machine, Twitter to charge new users to post, be an energy patriot!, Intercept struggles, and more
12. 15 AprStart Up No.2200: AI film cleanup earns fans’ ire, the hidden trouble with diabetes apps, the geothermal revolution, and more
13. 12 AprStart Up No.2199: Humane AI pin reviews (badly), Twitter screws up, Macs to go AI?, chatting to chatbots, AWS pays, and more
14. 11 AprStart Up No.2198: America falls out of love with dating apps, India’s rickshaws go electric, I sing the MIT licence electrically, and more
15. 10 AprStart Up No.2197: TikTok’s tip top homework app, is Earth’s thermostat slipping?, xz-utils made safe, the $54m fraudster, and more
16. 9 AprStart Up No.2196: AI video row in Pink Floyd competition, Musk faces Brazil challenge, eclipsing for fun and profit, and more
17. 8 AprStart Up No.2195: pondering AI’s errors, India v Netflix, demographics v income, Vice’s downfall, the $100,000 lab leak debate, and more

March 2024

1. 22 MarStart Up No.2194: Apple sued for iPhone “monopoly”, 3 Body Problem reviewed, AIs can’t spell, heat pump defences, and more
2. 21 MarStart Up No.2193: Apple said to face antitrust suit, superconductor fraudster?, Google fined for French AI news training, and more
3. 20 MarStart Up No.2192: Facebook’s AI spam interaction problem, Telegram mulls IPO, the ChatGPT for music, and more
4. 19 MarStart Up No.2191: Apple said to seek Google Gemini for iOS, DNA shows incest prevalence, Nvidia amps up the AI, and more
5. 18 MarStart Up No.2190: Pornhub bans itself in Texas, ChatGPT fails data journalism, no dark matter?, Philippine scam centre shut, and more
6. 15 MarStart Up No.2189: FTC catches antivirus scammers in the act, Hugo Barra reviews Vision Pro, Wright’s not Satoshi, and more
7. 14 MarStart Up No.2188: TikTok ban bill awaits Senate approval, EU to ban “risky” AI, how subscription apps struggle for profit, and more
8. 13 MarStart Up No.2187: Apple inches nearer sideloading in EU, distrusting online polls, why US farmers love solar, and more
9. 12 MarStart Up No.2186: US car firms covertly share drivers’ data, the loneliness epidemic, UK emissions at 1879AD levels, and more
10. 11 MarStart Up No.2185: Apple unbans Epic back in the EU, the disinformation front line, after the whales, Led Zep’s tax wheeze, and more
11. 8 MarStart Up No.2184: hackers target US prescription system, TikTok screws Congress lobbying, Ozempic in your brain, and more
12. 7 MarStart Up No.2183: the TikTok spammers, Apple’s Car’s wrong turn, Europe’s electricity gets greener, gaming Google Scholar, and more
13. 6 MarStart Up No.2182: Google tries to squash AI spam, methane-spotting satellite to launch, Amazon’s dire chatbot, and more
14. 5 MarStart Up No.2181: Apple fined €1.84bn after Spotify complaint, AI chatbots give bad tax advice, 4K TV too good?, and more
15. 4 MarStart Up No.2180: why the Apple Car ended, the last days of Twitter, will AI strangle search?, testing Humane’s AI Pin, and more
16. 1 MarStart Up No.2179: Laurie Anderson’s Lou Reed chatbot, Apple plans Neuromancer series, WhatsApp gets Pegasus source, and more

February 2024

1. 29 FebStart Up No.2178: Apple kills car project, SBF asks for just six years, electric bikes work you harder!, ski economics, and more
2. 28 FebStart Up No.2177: the facial recognition sweet machine, Google fesses on Gemini images, contactless takes off, and more
3. 27 FebStart Up No.2176: Humane delays AI pin shipping, the paradox of more energy, 360º video v Vision Pro, Samsung rings, and more
4. 26 FebStart Up No.2175: US Supreme Court considers social media laws, on that Apple “smart ring”, fake robocall source talks, and more
5. 23 FebStart Up No.2174: Instacart offers AI recipes, law firm tries to get ChatGPT to decide fees, media meltdown gets worse, and more
6. 22 FebStart Up No.2173: ChatGPT’s meltdown, Apple teases Vision Pro sports footage, Adobe chatbots PDFs, don’t rice wet iPhones!, and more
7. 21 FebStart Up No.2172: New York Times v LLMs, Wired’s bad S230 piece, EU readies carbon capture rules, an Apple Ring?, and more
8. 20 FebStart Up No.2171: plastic recycling fibs, EU investigates TikTok, the fake DMCA takedowns, China’s weighty problem, and more
9. 19 FebStart Up No.2170: Air Canada disavows its chatbot, how high cars kill, EU to fine Apple over Spotify, AI v Japan, and more
10. 16 FebStart Up No.2169: OpenAI introduces text-to-video, the $50,000 Amazon scam, Apple v EU redux, Craig Wright interrogated, and more
11. 15 FebStart Up No.2168: scientists test global cooling, geothermal’s promise grows, Vision Pro gets Zucked, AI good for jobs?, and more
12. 14 FebStart Up No.2167: US gets behind OpenRAN, calculating the Atlantic tipping point, the HVAC liars, Ethernet on coax?, and more
13. 13 FebStart Up No.2166: Chinese women pick AI boyfriends, boomers v Ozempic, AI furniture for your flat, the killer warthog, and more
14. 12 FebStart Up No.2165: Waymo car wrecked by SF crowd, Apple buys iWork.ai (why?), the radicalism of podcasts, and more
15. 9 FebStart Up No.2164: world passes the 1.5ºC mark in 2023, the dark mode generation, a foldable iPhone?, Google’s Gemini AI, and more
16. 8 FebStart Up No.2163: TikTok’s language accelerator, no toothbrush botnet, paper mills and fake peer reviews, FTC nips at Microsoft, and more
17. 7 FebStart Up No.2162: the uneconomic creator economy, journalism’s market failure, Taylor Swift’s jet angst, 23andZero?, and more
18. 6 FebStart Up No.2161: the AI networks making fake IDs, Techcrunch contracts, Amazon’s $1bn of addresses, bitcoin or bust, and more
19. 5 FebStart Up No.2160: Brianna Ghey’s killers and the dark web, Vision Pro launches, the video deepfake call that cost $25m, and more
20. 2 FebStart Up No.2159: lessons of the failed New Economy, the techno-authoritarians, Everest’s death map, the biggest PDF, and more
21. 1 FebStart Up No.2158: Senate yells at tech leaders, want an ‘everything reader’?, US zaps infected routers, Vision Pro?, and more

January 2024

1. 31 JanStart Up No.2157: Apple warns over UK law updates, ransomware loses its bite, US’s lithium boom, Vision Pro reviewed, and more
2. 30 JanStart Up No.2156: the site creating the Taylor Swift deepfakes, why all the job cuts?, the disposable vape question, and more
3. 29 JanStart Up No.2155: (we didn’t) send in the clones, Meta looks at Apple’s spatial video, Apple’s European snubs, is media dying? and more
4. 26 JanStart Up No.2154: Apple to offer sideloading in Europe, Microsoft cuts 1,900 games jobs, Microsoft’s mysterious hack, and more
5. 25 JanStart Up No.2153: the global app phone spy tool, Google accused on abortion data, print publisher gives it five years, and more
6. 24 JanStart Up No.2152: how dog hair wrongly jailed a man, FTC slams Intuit deception, knee joints v running, LA Times fires 115, and more
7. 23 JanStart Up No.2151: cops take facial recognition a step too far, the lies around heat pumps, Vision Pro sells out (but how many?), and more
8. 22 JanStart Up No.2150: DPD chatbot gets sweary, you are not an embassy, the Big IT failure, how journalists beat the Post Office, and more
9. 19 JanStart Up No.2149: Netflix snubs Vision Pro, billionaires lose millions on media, Google News touts junk AI rewrites, and more
10. 18 JanStart Up No.2148: how Instagram made cafes the same, beating Tetris, Google fires Fitbit leaders, Apple tops smartphones, and more
11. 17 JanStart Up No.2147: how Google Search gets worse, Apple Vision Pro eyes-on, our climate – our fault, California v EVs, and more
12. 16 JanStart Up No.2146: the political climate activist, could solar farms affect weather?, Apple Watch to cut oxygen monitor, and more
13. 15 JanStart Up No.2145: preventing another Horizon, pricing EV charging, podcasting’s cash crunch, eBay pays $3m fine, and more
14. 12 JanStart Up No.2144: why governments depend on big IT suppliers, Vision Pro faces limited supply, Hertz starts selling its Teslas, and more
15. 11 JanStart Up No.2143: surviving Alaska flight 1282, HyperVerse’s fake ‘CEO’, the genes associated with MS, PC sales fall again, and more
16. 10 JanStart Up No.2142: Earth breaks heat record, why post office victims didn’t speak up, Substacks acts on content, US v Apple?, and more
17. 9 JanStart Up No.2141: publisher uses AI art after banning AI art, the Stuxnet inception, Vision Pro nears, how Boeing went wrong, and more
18. 8 JanStart Up No.2140: plagiarism wars are here, Google settles ‘private mode’ suit, the cyber kidnap scam, Bird’s bankrupt, and more

2023 215

December 2023

1. 22 DecStart Up No.2139: how millennials fell off the internet, GTA 6’s genius hacker sentenced, LA’s restaurant blight, “r” to go?, and more
2. 21 DecStart Up No.2138: UK police could run searchers on drivers’ faces, the US’s burgeoning oil output, can YouTube save India?, and more
3. 20 DecStart Up No.2137: TikTok and the underage accounts, Beeper rinse-repeats again, the NYT’s vast games staff, and more
4. 19 DecStart Up No.2136: what do AI language models think of?, Adobe dumps Figma acquisition, Nikola founder jailed, and more
5. 18 DecStart Up No.2135: the AI news anchors, Russia’s TikTok war fakes, why Britain is Slough House, see-through wood?, and more
6. 15 DecStart Up No.2134: will Sunak curbs kids’ social media?, watching iPhone Spatial Video, AI and the dead, foldable laptops, and more
7. 14 DecStart Up No.2133: ChatGPT gets licence to summarise, cable news’s kayfabe era is over, Russian hacking blocked, and more
8. 13 DecStart Up No.2132: Apple shows new passcode protection feature, memes!, Li-Fi looks to shine, the macho EV design puzzle, and more
9. 12 DecStart Up No.2131: the trouble awaiting podcasts, an Apple foldable.. Mac?, Mail Online considers thin paywall, Beeper’s back?, and more
10. 11 DecStart Up No.2130: EU drafts law to regulate AI, Gaza as the modern Dresden, what’s OpenAI’s Q*?, AI’s science problem, and more
11. 8 DecStart Up No.2129: has 5G paid its way yet?, AI chatbot makes up UK case law, Gemini stumbles at start, OLED iPads in 2024, and more
12. 7 DecStart Up No.2128: Google shows off Gemini chatbot, Alibaba animates anyone, US spies via push data, Intel end in sight?, and more
13. 6 DecStart Up No.2127: Signal app faces cash crunch, ex-colleagues lift lid on Yaccarino, RCS hits 1bn, streaming tries bundling, and more
14. 5 DecStart Up No.2126: Sellafield silently hacked, Spotify laying off more staff, Gmail’s better spam beater, the AI ‘model’, and more
15. 4 DecStart Up No.2125: Altman’s OpenAI deal to buy his startup’s chips, Cop28 president’s climate denial, ELIZA beats ChatGPT, and more
16. 1 DecStart Up No.2124: US government stops warning social networks, Meta sues FTC, satellites show Gaza damage, Musks’s GFY, and more

November 2023

1. 30 NovStart Up No.2123: Apple’s Workflow team start AI company, let’s prompt engineer!, US EV sales stall, no fear NameDrop, and more
2. 29 NovStart Up No.2122: AI fake female speakers kill conference, Ikea gets sensor-y, the hydrogen question, giant sloth tunnels!, and more
3. 28 NovStart Up No.2121: Sports Illustrated’s fake AI writers, Popular Science magazine de-magazines, does Meta design for addiction?, and more
4. 27 NovStart Up No.2120: ChatGPT fakes science data, hack your coffee maker, X faces $75m ad loss, Twitter’s ex-safety chief talks, and more
5. 24 NovStart Up No.2119: the view inside Google, Musk’s odd lawsuit, Squid Games pain, Sonos headphones plan?, and more
6. 23 NovStart Up No.2118: did OpenAI ‘breakthrough’ cause Altman’s sacking?, office loans fizzle, sabotaging Truth Social, and more
7. 22 NovStart Up No.2117: the scourge of hacked dead social media accounts, OpenAI and Microsoft sued (again), Musk sues, and more
8. 21 NovStart Up No.2116: Altman drama continues, Portugal’s six-day green spell, Apple’s modem MacBooks?, AI scam calls, and more
9. 20 NovStart Up No.2115: OpenAI board struggle continues, Nothing pulls iMessage linker from Play Store, advertisers flee X, and more
10. 17 NovStart Up No.2114: Apple to adopt RCS in 2024, Black Mirror drone kills for real, more Sphere!, Brexit effect is real, and more
11. 16 NovStart Up No.2113: Google’s pay to Android OEMs revealed, Stable Audio head resigns, NYC gets pumping, crypto fragility, and more
12. 15 NovStart Up No.2112: extremists exploiting AI, enumerating chatbot hallucinations, mixed reality golf, China’s green boom, and more
13. 14 NovStart Up No.2111: Apple’s pay split with Google revealed, Asda owners get charging, the “subscription economy”, and more
14. 13 NovStart Up No.2110: the “brand safety” media problem, among the AI prompters, can you quit email?, Vision Pro filming, and more
15. 10 NovStart Up No.2109: the algorithms choosing organ transplants, Hamas and horror, Tumblr nears the buffers, Jezebel silenced, and more
16. 9 NovStart Up No.2108: Humane’s AI pin details leak, Twitter’s degradation worsens, the US’s strange immobiliser failure, and more
17. 8 NovStart Up No.2107: Adobe sells AI stock images of war, CT scans for AirPods, judge dismisses AI copyright case, potatoes?, and more
18. 7 NovStart Up No.2106: Musk’s bonkers new AI model, AI photo subpositioning, ApeFest is a bad sight, Jezebel’s angry users, and more
19. 6 NovStart Up No.2105: Google v Epic reaches court, Twitter selling handles?, 2024 reassurance, how SBF and his parents lost it, and more
20. 3 NovStart Up No.2104: Guardian complains at Microsoft AI poll, SBF is (very) guilty, Sunak v Musk, leaving Twitter, and more
21. 2 NovStart Up No.2103: AI summit blather, air pollution linked to type 2 diabetes, EU squashes Meta ad targeting, the iPod life, and more
22. 1 NovStart Up No.2102: Apple’s Watch patent fight, WeDon’tWork, Amazon’s odd AI product pics, Hertz cools on Tesla, and more

October 2023

1. 31 OctStart Up No.2101: the trouble with dating apps, helpful CO2, AirPod society, Google’s default price, Twitter’s price drop, and more
2. 30 OctStart Up No.2100: carbon emissions could peak this year, Her nearly here?, Apple’s bad Weather, the bitcoin USB puzzle, and more
3. 20 OctStart Up No.2099: Google starts US antitrust defence, Threads’s growth hack, dark web’s killer doctor, techno-• manifesto, and more
4. 19 OctStart Up No.2098: another lawyer using AI badly, the Gaza hospital puzzle, EPA says airplanes pollute with lead, and more
5. 18 OctStart Up No.2097: could Ozempic boost productivity?, the carbon offset hustle, the semi-VR lifestyle, the lead problem, and more
6. 17 OctStart Up No.2096: NYT tries to open up Google-DoJ trial, a Netflix price hike?, Twitter throttling links (again), AI or real?, and more
7. 16 OctStart Up No.2095: the emptiness of the internet, Twitter fined in Australia, CRISPR beats avian flu, India’s deadly loan app, and more
8. 13 OctStart Up No.2094: SBF trial gets backstabby, Ozempic comes for dialysis, shock as Trump Jr shares accurate video, and more
9. 12 OctStart Up No.2093: generative AI does the boring stuff, choosing wisely, Threads to get Trends, the trouble with durability, and more
10. 11 OctStart Up No.2092: the mystery of the slow Community Notes, how Hamas used crypto for funding, Ozempic slims GDP, and more
11. 10 OctStart Up No.2091: Twitter ad clash with Community Notes, subscription baby monitors?, Bumble’s AI love plans, and more
12. 9 OctStart Up No.2090: 23andMe hacked for DNA data, the internet’s degradation, the tyranny of the marginal user, X worsens, and more
13. 6 OctStart Up No.2089: Amazon the “apex predator”, Threads struggles, still using a web browser?!, the deepfake that wasn’t, and more
14. 5 OctStart Up No.2088: AI excels at detecting science picture fraud, iOS plays it cool, world sweated in September, pricier Amazon, and more
15. 4 OctStart Up No.2087: how Google changes search queries to push ads, who’ll pay for Instagram?, Michael Lewis v SBF, and more
16. 3 OctStart Up No.2086: Actor gets AI injunction (and Tom Hanks wants one), passport pictures to solve crimes?, mRNA wins Nobel, and more
17. 2 OctStart Up No.2085: Twitter CEO’s meltdown, the WGA’s non-win vs AI, iOS 17 blamed for hot phones, QR codes go shopping, and more

September 2023

1. 29 SepStart Up No.2084: what’s after the smartphone?, India’s weather influencers, why Yaccarino works for Musk, climate report junk, and more
2. 28 SepStart Up No.2083: analysing FTC v Amazon, US says AI can’t copyright, foldable PCs?, halting hydrogen cars, everything!, and more
3. 27 SepStart Up No.2082: ChatGPT can talk and see, the books informing Meta’s AI, France aims to phase out fossil fuels by 2030, and more
4. 26 SepStart Up No.2081: TikTok’s facial recognition privacy killer, the obituary pirates, work like Musk!, Nissan electrifies, and more
5. 25 SepStart Up No.2080: Sunak kills home insulation group, putting AI to work, the trouble with mobile text, Pixel camera, and more
6. 22 SepStart Up No.2079: how Apple didn’t build a modem, the smartphone extinction, TikTok’s Africa bans, the grift switch, and more
7. 21 SepStart Up No.2078: Wordle’s army of cheats, new Neuralink claiims, Amazon offers home chatbot, Sunak negative on net zero, and more
8. 20 SepStart Up No.2077: Amazon tries to tackle AI publishing, Twitter still throttling rivals (and mulls paywall), don’t Ring?, and more
9. 19 SepStart Up No.2076: is your AI conscious (yet)?, Antarctic sea-ice hits scary lows, Musk and the bots, the fake carbon offsets, and more
10. 18 SepStart Up No.2075: Google settles (another) location tracking case, empty view counts, Apple pushes on glucose watch, and more
11. 15 SepStart Up No.2074: Microsoft’s AI article-writer screws up, the homeless baby boomers, why voice failed to carry, and more
12. 14 SepStart Up No.2073: we’re living beyond Earth’s means, how 9/11 killed digital optimism, where do used tennis balls go?, and more
13. 13 SepStart Up No.2072: Apple says it’s green, iPhone 15 offers Vision Pro filming, dynamic pricing in pubs, options madness, and more
14. 12 SepStart Up No.2071: the proof that Russia fooled Musk, world hits 1.5ºC+, Huawei’s dubious magic, Proust v ChatGPT, and more
15. 11 SepStart Up No.2070: LastPass breach for crypto hacks?, Musk’s Ukraine mistake, pricing Apple’s customers, building Threads, and more
16. 8 SepStart Up No.2069: UK to review period tracking app data, yoga class or murder mart?, Apple hit by China woes, crypto crazy, and more
17. 7 SepStart Up No.2068: UK government drops anti-encryption plan, podcasts transcribed, IBM translates COBOL to.. Java, and more
18. 6 SepStart Up No.2067: fitness trackers work!, the tennis pirates, LLMs explained, Meta cuts news support in Europe, and more
19. 5 SepStart Up No.2066: the deceptions of AI, sayonara Lightning port, Ukraine’s fake weapons, the correct price for air fares, and more
20. 4 SepStart Up No.2065: Foxconn starts selling Wisconsin buildings, self-driving cars block ambulance, biometric X?, and more
21. 1 SepStart Up No.2064: Apple in row over CSAM (non-)scanning, Musk v Twitter, chasing Bolivia’s car smugglers, and more

August 2023

1. 31 AugStart Up No.2063: NYC subway’s odd transparency, why kids develop allergies, SynthID v deepfakes, and more
2. 30 AugStart Up No.2062: is AI the early internet?, how Poland’s trains were halted, South Africa dings Google, Meta snubs Oversight, and more
3. 29 AugStart Up No.2061: Google and the viral web, brain-computer interface lets woman ‘speak’, why chatbots are getting weirder, and more
4. 28 AugStart Up No.2060: Ukraine’s cardboard drones, Earth in 2100, AI and IP, pick films with maths, scammers target Worldcoin, and more
5. 11 AugStart Up No.2059: AI-generated guidebooks scam buyers, Detroit changes face recognition policy, moody muons?, and more
6. 10 AugStart Up No.2058: US police’s faulty facial recognition, SCOTUS v Section 230?, cargo-cult SEO, betting the future, and more
7. 9 AugStart Up No.2057: ChatGPT’s maths gets worse, Reddit’s protesters fade away, solar panels in the ocean?, silencing Musk, and more
8. 8 AugStart Up No.2056: Zoom demands office workers, Apple corners TSMC’s 3nm supply, the AI joke writers, Vonnegut?!, and more
9. 7 AugStart Up No.2055: is broadcast TV dying?, the fraudster and the medical AI, UK offshore wind needs an extra push, and more
10. 4 AugStart Up No.2054: China considers cutting kids’ phone use, Ray-Ban’s smart glasses stumble, Norway’s troubled CCS projects, and more
11. 3 AugStart Up No.2053: superconducting (coolly), the too-hot summer, Facebook blocks news in Canada, hiding Twitter Blue, and more
12. 2 AugStart Up No.2052: room-temperature superconductor latest, plastic bags down 98%, AI gets deeper into journalism, and more
13. 1 AugStart Up No.2051: Twitter (itself) accused of bullying, US steams in heatwave, why Stack Overflow is dwindling, and more

July 2023

1. 31 JulStart Up No.2050: Threads sees user numbers unravel, OpenAI stops trying to detect AI, Japan’s population plummets, and more
2. 28 JulStart Up No.2049: AI’s watermarking problem, how Tesla suppressed range complaints, global boiling is here, chatbots ahoy!, and more
3. 27 JulStart Up No.2048: what to learn from AI writing, the impossible heatwaves, superconductor claims go into retreat, and more
4. 26 JulStart Up No.2047: Irish newspaper lets chatbot run amok, eSIMs examined, House of Lord Bots?, TETRA’s back door, and more
5. 25 JulStart Up No.2046: Twitter Troncs it up, AI’s watermark promise, Apple nixes Premier League, the new earbuds, and more
6. 24 JulStart Up No.2045: Apple threatens to pull iMessage from UK, Spotify eyes US price hike, the Long Boom busted, and more
7. 21 JulStart Up No.2044: Europe’s heatwave in context, Canadian crypto investors robbed at home, a Covid webinar scam?, and more
8. 20 JulStart Up No.2043: Netflix wins password crackdown, climate change deniers say what?, Indian coders face AI threat, and more
9. 19 JulStart Up No.2042: the weather app addiction, Microsoft prices CoPilot, the 500-mile email mystery, one less private jet?, and more
10. 18 JulStart Up No.2041: Threads gets a spam problem, SEC v the chatbots, Twitter’s ineffective PR, what about a roundabout?, and more
11. 17 JulStart Up No.2040: was the Constitution written by AI?, Meta fires election disinfo teams, Google Bard coming to Europe, and more
12. 14 JulStart Up No.2039: Hollywood actors strike amid AI avatar proposal, why the Long Boom bust, the miseducation of Tucker Carlson, and more
13. 13 JulStart Up No.2038: Senegal’s voice note farmers, ex-employees sue Twitter for $500m, the nurses fighting AI, the rising oceans, and more
14. 12 JulStart Up No.2037: US court approves Microsoft-Activision deal, Samsung chases Vision Pro, here come the AI engineers, and more
15. 11 JulStart Up No.2036: the end of Twitter?, Apple purges Indian lending apps, F1 on the Vision Pro?, an AI trailer, and more
16. 10 JulStart Up No.2035: Threads balloons to 70 million, Earth keeps getting hotter, AI journalism gets worse, WFH is NBG, and more
17. 7 JulStart Up No.2034: Twitter threatens to sue over Meta Threads, SSD smuggling, pig heart lessons, Amazon’s unsure Prime, and more
18. 6 JulStart Up No.2033: more linkrot (and hello Meta’s Threads), India’s politics gets AI fakes, renewables keep Texas cool, and more
19. 5 JulStart Up No.2032: US to restrict China cloud access, Twitter’s shonky paid API, CJEU prangs Facebook’s business model, and more
20. 4 JulStart Up No.2031: Meta’s Threads gets ready to roll, China restricts chip metal exports, the metaverse goes phut, and more
21. 3 JulStart Up No.2030: Twitter hits the bottleneck, ByteDance intros music app, the ‘new abnormal’, crypto miners’ AI pivot, and more

June 2023

1. 30 JunStart Up No.2029: Journalism by AI still no good, Vision Pro sales forecasts, Google will ignore Canadian news sites, and more
2. 29 JunStart Up No.2028: AI junk books hit Kindle Store, why Goodreads is bad, the doctors using AI, the demon Elon Musk, and more
3. 28 JunStart Up No.2027: Silicon Valley’s soft drug users, Google faces video ad questions, lawyers fined for ChatGPT cites, and more
4. 27 JunStart Up No.2026: AI junk sites start to infect the web, new weight loss drug excels, Pixel Fold – why?, Meta’s fraud tsunami, and more
5. 26 JunStart Up No.2025: EU plan to allow spying on journalists, Dr Deep Sea!, how humans made AI smart, Spain goes green, and more
6. 9 JunStart Up No.2024: DeSantis campaign uses AI-faked Trump pics, labelling you 650,000 ways, further Vision Pro thoughts, and more
7. 8 JunStart Up No.2023: Instagram’s paedophile problem, more on Apple’s Vision Pro, India pauses coal builds, why stream?, and more
8. 7 JunStart Up No.2022: first views on Apple’s Vision Pro, the reality about EVs, Chinese fans create deepfake album of music star, and more
9. 6 JunStart Up No.2021: Apple’s worst-kept secret unveiled, India’s religious chatbots, SEC sues Binance, Twitter ad sales plunge, and more
10. 5 JunStart Up No.2020: the ‘killer drone’ that never was, the questions about Stability AI’s founder, peak population beckons, and more
11. 2 JunStart Up No.2019: the AI drone that wanted to kill its operator, losing the screenshot, Meta resists California news law, and more
12. 1 JunStart Up No.2018: eating disorder helpline chatbot fired, a chatbot captcha, crypto fuelled opioid use, negative power?, and more

May 2023

1. 31 MayStart Up No.2017: chatbot takes over helpline jobs, Delta sued over carbon-neutral claim, solar and battery heads for net zero, and more
2. 30 MayStart Up No.2016: the counterfeit people problem, the news people seek, suicide via chatbot?, India overheats, and more
3. 29 MayStart Up No.2015: ChatGPT in court (unfortunately), Zelda’s amazing game physics, trying out Meta’s VR headset, and more
4. 26 MayStart Up No.2014: music faces up to the AI tsunami, the trouble with happy mobile users, Silicon Valley’s empty offices, and more
5. 25 MayStart Up No.2013: Nvidia’s AI server growth, Apple’s home hub screen?, Google’s AI ads plan, the trouble with parents, and more
6. 24 MayStart Up No.2012: Apple invites VR journo to WWDC, US health chief warns on social media for kids, Insta-Twitter?, and more
7. 23 MayStart Up No.2011: AI-faked Pentagon hit goes viral, Meta fined €1.2bn over US data transfer, America’s trucking Indians, and more
8. 22 MayStart Up No.2010: bitcoin in divorces, ChatGPT for press releases, the angry orcas, Google rival closes, Ukraine’s solar answer, and more
9. 19 MayStart Up No.2009: US Supreme Court rules on copyright and Section 230, ChatGPT hits the App Store, an AR laptop?, and more
10. 18 MayStart Up No.2008: Google gets AI automating, OpenAI blocks astroturf effort, the trouble with media, Vietnam’s military trolls, and more
11. 17 MayStart Up No.2007: OpenAI chief calls for AI regulation, Apple offers phone with your voice, that Succession ‘fire’ question, and more
12. 16 MayStart Up No.2006: an ER doc using ChatGPT, free TV for obligatory ads?, South Africa’s copper gangs, Moderate!, and more
13. 15 MayStart Up No.2005: why Google’s Bard isn’t in the EU, astronomy meets AI, Twitter’s new “CEO” profiled, media’s traffic dream, and more
14. 12 MayStart Up No.2004: musicians embrace ChatGPT, wind trumps gas in UK, Twitter’s mystery CEO, fake science proliferates, and more
15. 11 MayStart Up No.2003: Google shows how AI will suck up the web, AI as McKinsey, Dooce no more, 50 awful album covers, and more
16. 10 MayStart Up No.2002: will Carlson make Twitter into TV?, YouTube big on TV, US beats Russian hackers, reading AI news, and more
17. 9 MayStart Up No.2001: Google expected to show AI at I/O, Florida faces its climate problem, spied on by TikTok, cleansing Twitter, and more
18. 8 MayStart Up No.2000: Wikipedia faces its LLM problem, ChatGPT’s future jobs impact, do colonoscopies work?, Kinged!, and more
19. 5 MayStart Up No.1999: Vice Media heads for bankruptcy, Google seeks an AI moat, bitcoin trading thins, a16z’s trouble, and more
20. 4 MayStart Up No.1998: TV writers’s strike gripe, the real web history, Apple’s AI struggles, the stretch limo vanishes, Netflix’s lost users, and more
21. 3 MayStart Up No.1997: the fresh threat of AI, ChatGPT reads minds?, life in digital journalism, NYPD boosts AirTags, and more
22. 2 MayStart Up No.1996: Ex-Google AI scientist sounds worried, China’s search censors, Germany probes Huawei, Dorsey disses Musk, and more
23. 1 MayStart Up No.1995: Hollywood writers wary of AI, Wikipedia’s UK threat, that Google engineer on its AI, bad black holes, and more

April 2023

1. 28 AprStart Up No.1994: Intel crashes to huge loss, raccoon dogs exonerated in Covid probe, Gen Z v work, Clubhouse chops, and more
2. 27 AprStart Up No.1993: UK blocks Microsoft-Activision merger, AI spam reviews are here, the true value of Waystar Royco, and more
3. 26 AprStart Up No.1992: tidal power’s climate problem, Apple (mostly) wins over Epic, Africa sours on web3, Snapchat’s AI fail, and more
4. 25 AprStart Up No.1991: UK’s biggest solar plant breaks ground, more Twitter screwups, schools confront ChatGPT, and more
5. 24 AprStart Up No.1990: why Apple dominates US smartphone use, the Twitter Blue fiasco, Europe’s big wind plans, the unphone?, and more
6. 21 AprStart Up No.1989: Buzzfeed News reaches the end, Facebook settles for $725m, ChatGPT splits editors and freelancers, and more
7. 20 AprStart Up No.1988: iPhone thieves’ new target, social media’s coming demise, LLMs hit the wall, India’s spoken commerce, and more
8. 19 AprStart Up No.1987: Google frets over Samsung change, the AI LLM search engine, Silicon Valley’s quiet times, and more
9. 18 AprStart Up No.1986: AI infiltrates pop culture (and storms Reddit), how bacteria can beat cancer, Ford commits to CarPlay, and more
10. 17 AprStart Up No.1985: the group chat problem, Twitter bans weather bots, AI image wins photo contest, Montana bans TikTok, and more
11. 14 AprStart Up No.1984: FBI arrests accused leaker, music labels warn on AI-generated songs, tracing bitcoin thieves, stock Twitter?, and more
12. 13 AprStart Up No.1983: Musk’s predictable Twitter regret, life in them thar stars?, subscription fatigue, YouTubers burn out, and more
13. 12 AprStart Up No.1982: the stitches that show wound infection, PC shipments crash, exit Twitter Europe?, bitcoin burning, and more
14. 11 AprStart Up No.1981: where the Ukraine plan was leaked, Europe’s drought problem, Twitter screws up labels, Paris bans scooters, and more
15. 10 AprStart Up No.1980: Samsung troubled by ChatGPT leaks and chip slump, DPReview lives (sorta), runaway black hole!, and more
16. 7 AprStart Up No.1979: Twitter blocks embeds on Substack, macOS’s odd Easter egg, are targeted ads overpriced?, ChatGPT MD, and more
17. 6 AprStart Up No.1978: car theft by data injection, hacker market shut down, Equity acts on AI, will China ban rare earth exports?, and more
18. 5 AprStart Up No.1977: TikTok fined £12.7m over kids’ data, the trouble with Blurred Lines, Wordle slows, Lawson’s oil-fed boom, and more
19. 4 AprStart Up No.1976: how the FBI hid its Pegasus purchase, Tim Cook profiled, deepfakes v establishment media, and more
20. 3 AprStart Up No.1975: chatbots are reasoning engines?, Twitter continues hari-kiri, Apple halts UK mobile browser probe, and more

March 2023

1. 31 MarStart Up No.1974: Russia’s Vulkan cyberwar plans exposed, Buzzfeed’s hidden AI gems, UK hopes for carbon capture, and more
2. 30 MarStart Up No.1973: AI experts call for pause on Big AI, iPhone 15’s no-power mode, metaverse goes meh, Arm’s price hike, and more
3. 29 MarStart Up No.1972: Twitter Blue’s low expectations, Google’s pointer on results, Clearview use grows in US, and more
4. 28 MarStart Up No.1971: the trouble with Windows Taskbar news, WolfraLLM is the accurate one, RIAA v Steve Jobs, and more
5. 27 MarStart Up No.1970: Internet Archive loses ebook lending case, Tory MPs froth at Google Bard, Twitter’s value collapse, and more
6. 24 MarStart Up No.1969: TikTok hearing goes badly for its boss, can you land this plane, sir?, remote kissing (ugh), Dorsey shorted, and more
7. 23 MarStart Up No.1968: where’s Apple on the new AI wave?, the post-search internet, theme tunes to die for, the underwater man, and more
8. 22 MarStart Up No.1967: hackers drain bitcoin ATMs, running GPT-3 locally, Musk and the hateful tweets, burning batteries, and more
9. 21 MarStart Up No.1966: Greek spyware targets Meta exec, Twitter loses your place, rethinking the climate crisis, space juice!, and more
10. 20 MarStart Up No.1965: influencer parents and their children, chatbots infuse Office, screwing up self-driving, China v LLMs, and more
11. 3 MarStart Up No.1964: TikTok’s widespread data sources, Twitter devs face subscription crunch, Snapchat adds AI bot, and more
12. 2 MarStart Up No.1963: EU narrows antitrust case against Apple, the $130m ringtone scam, Twitter fails (but no Whale), and more
13. 1 MarStart Up No.1962: the lifesaving NHS Covid Bluetooth app, the danger of iPhone passcodes, how hackers breached LastPass, and more

February 2023

1. 28 FebStart Up No.1961: Twitter cuts another 200 jobs, Vertu’s weird Web3 phone, Boris Becker ‘in the game’, a BritGPT for UK?, and more
2. 27 FebStart Up No.1960: shadow painting, Signal threatens to block UK users, AI coders less secure, OLED iPads?, and more
3. 24 FebStart Up No.1959: social media v mental health, Bard’s pricey search, EU bans TikTok for exec staff, cryptoqueen killed?, and more
4. 23 FebStart Up No.1958: South Africa’s internet night owls, AI comic loses copyright, Apple said to order all TSMC 3nm chips, and more
5. 22 FebStart Up No.1957: AI photographer confesses, AI spam overwhelms SF magazine, SO2 to solve the climate?, queuing trouble, and more
6. 21 FebStart Up No.1956: the TikTok sleuths go wrong again, man beats machine at Go, the AI mirror test, Windows on ARM?, and more
7. 20 FebStart Up No.1955: Section 230 meets the Supremes, Meta launches subscription service, Twitter blocks SMS 2FA, and more
8. 17 FebStart Up No.1954: Bing’s chatbot gets weirder, Tesla self-driving gets recalled, Apple stumbles in India, Beatles v Beyoncé, and more
9. 16 FebStart Up No.1953: Bing’s weird hidden chatbot, election disinfo team for hire, Musk meddles more, what ails Google?, and more
10. 15 FebStart Up No.1952: the catfishing networks of ‘lonely women’, EV v ICE prices come closer, Bing’s AI gets it wrong, and more
11. 14 FebStart Up No.1951: Musk goes mad on the algorithm, TikTok aims at Meta headsets, the lossy compression discussion, and more
12. 13 FebStart Up No.1950: the blurry world of LLMs, Microsoft cuts jobs, an outside view of Brexit regret, Twitter in 25 tweets, and more
13. 10 FebStart Up No.1949: Musk firing view decline, where’s Mastodon’s Android hit?, SpaceX ‘not for drones’, smell the Moon, and more
14. 9 FebStart Up No.1948: Google shows off its search chatbot Bard, former Twitter staff tell the real story, let’s mine the moon!, and more
15. 8 FebStart Up No.1947: Microsoft shows off Bing with ChatGPT, Twitter Blue grows (but is it enough?), new browsers on iOS?, and more
16. 7 FebStart Up No.1946: Google Bard enters AI search wars, crypto ads absent from Super Bowl, EU eyes Twitter’s content for size, and more
17. 6 FebStart Up No.1945: America’s offices stop refilling, Bing’s ChatGPT leaks, journalism v the algorithms, money for manure, and more
18. 3 FebStart Up No.1944: Twitter to cut off free API, Sergey Brin is coding again, ChatGPT has grown faster than TikTok, and more
19. 2 FebStart Up No.1943: metaverse still a money drain, renewables boost in EU, how Amazon’s ASINs work, Britain’s semi pause, and more
20. 1 FebStart Up No.1942: the doppelganger killing, the trouble with carbon credits, Spotify’s podcast miss, enough cookies!, and more

January 2023

1. 31 JanStart Up No.1941: how US Marines beat an AI camera, renewables far cheaper than coal, spotting the corporate fraudsters, and more
2. 30 JanStart Up No.1940: Microsoft and OpenAI fight code copyright claim, Musk’s capricious Twitter, smartphone shipments drop, and more
3. 27 JanStart Up No.1939: pol gives job to ChatGPT, scientists “make” a black hole, Buzzfeed hires AI “writers”, Intel slumps to loss, and more
4. 26 JanStart Up No.1938: why platforms die, podcasts exit walled gardens, War Thunder leakers, Twitter’s money trouble, and more
5. 25 JanStart Up No.1937: Ivory (a great iOS Mastodon app) arrives, Microsoft putting billions in ChatGPT, virality dissected, and more
6. 24 JanStart Up No.1936: Apple’s headset details (maybe) leak, AI plagiarism-bot?, the trouble with insulating homes, and more
7. 23 JanStart Up No.1935: Google calls in Page and Brin over ChatGPT, CNet pauses AI writers, Amazon cuts drone team, teeny Twitter, and more
8. 20 JanStart Up No.1934: CNet’s AI bodysnatchers, Amazon frowns on Smile, Musk and the ‘self-driving’ Tesla, NFT auctions, and more
9. 19 JanStart Up No.1933: inside Musk’s mad mad mad mad Twitter, how ChatGPT lost its toxicity, will the Online Safety Bill cull users?, and more
10. 18 JanStart Up No.1932: Getty sues Stable Diffusion on copyright, the Online Immigration Safety Bill, review your 2022 calendar, and more
11. 17 JanStart Up No.1931: ChatGPT challenges university tutors, Sunak rolls over on Online Safety, hackers beat Le Mans, and more
12. 16 JanStart Up No.1930: Twitter tries to kill third-party apps, AI to make.. phishing emails, Section 230 under threat?, rockets v churn, and more
13. 13 JanStart Up No.1929: how Facebook tried to dial back on politics, how Jordan led to the iPlayer, Hololens hors de combat, and more
14. 12 JanStart Up No.1928: Substack and the journalists, solar silicon costs plummet, the AI publisher, Twitter’s algorithmic push, and more
15. 11 JanStart Up No.1927: ChatGPT’s dating failure, early Wired UK, whither podcasting?, vaccines for bees!, scamming scammers, and more
16. 10 JanStart Up No.1926: tech’s love of ‘exit’, Apple to drop Broadcom and Qualcomm?, Experian hacked again, no video!, and more
17. 9 JanStart Up No.1925: the MPs who make a mint, Google launches medical LLM, Mastodon growth stops, not Mars!, and more

2022 215

December 2022

1. 16 DecStart Up No.1924: OpenAI looks to $1bn revenue, machines to draw.. music, Covid takes off in China, a good crypto use, and more
2. 15 DecStart Up No.1923: faking your life with AI photos, Meta sued over Ethiopia violence, what Page and Brin do post-Google, and more
3. 14 DecStart Up No.1922: will iOS get sideloading?, more on that fusion result, Binance daily outflow tops $1bn, the truth about strikes, and more
4. 13 DecStart Up No.1921: SBF arrested, Binance may face charges, fusion redux, the fall in crypto paychecks, dead neural tech, and more
5. 12 DecStart Up No.1920: the deepfake photo threat, pricing ChatGPT, the fossil fuel job ban, ban that post!, how Twitter ends, and more
6. 9 DecStart Up No.1919: EU rules for accuracy on Google, spot the chatbot!, Dyson’s ear cleaners, BBC considers online-only, and more
7. 8 DecStart Up No.1918: TSMC plans chips for Apple in Arizona, sodium-sulpur rather than lithium-ion?, Google v ChatGPT, and more
8. 7 DecStart Up No.1917: Tether comes under pressure, $250k bitcoin in six months?, Meta faces ad blocks in Europe, Lensa beauty, and more
9. 6 DecStart Up No.1916: EU to allow 5G on planes, world champion Excel!, suing Pegasus’s creators, Foxconn riots chop output, and more
10. 5 DecStart Up No.1915: Apple mulls partial China exit, India gets smartwatches, volcano pauses CO2 data, ex-Instagram?, and more
11. 2 DecStart Up No.1914: how generative AI will change work, 52 things you (probably) didn’t know, Tether’s loan trouble, and more
12. 1 DecStart Up No.1913: Coindesk for sale?, Bankman-Fried speaks up, Apple has still been advertising on Twitter, what if Gai?, and more

November 2022

1. 30 NovStart Up No.1912: Apple’s unsociable China AirDrop, Twitter’s child safety problem, AWS v the blockchain, woke mind virus!, and more
2. 29 NovStart Up No.1911: Online Safety Bill resurfaces yet again, Epson ditches lasers for inkjets, Pegasus v disinformation, and more
3. 28 NovStart Up No.1910: India’s gig workers beat the algorithm, Musk/Twitter (groan), the woman who fell from the sky, crypt0?, and more
4. 25 NovStart Up No.1909: Twitter to reinstate banned accounts, Mr Beast’s big business, how Facebook cleaned up its news feed, and more
5. 24 NovStart Up No.1908: Facebook grabs accounting data, a new search?, teens on social media, FTX’s stuck NFTs, Zoom v doom, and more
6. 23 NovStart Up No.1907: Facebook’s AI negotiator, HP plans layoffs, Alexa’s billion-dollar miss, Instagram v police, FTX losers, and more
7. 22 NovStart Up No.1906: Crypto lender Genesis in big trouble, Twitter redux, Euro MPs mandate EVs by 2035, Russia aims at Signal, and more
8. 21 NovStart Up No.1905: Holmes gets 11 years, where FTX depositors go to panic, the people who want to – but won’t – leave Twitter, and more
9. 18 NovStart Up No.1904: Twitter’s moderation system slows, TikTok aims to sell, Meta fires staff who hijacked accounts, and more
10. 17 NovStart Up No.1903: UK government blocks Nexperia chip buy, FBI mulls TikTok block, Elon’s hardcore Twitter, and more
11. 16 NovStart Up No.1902: India’s Reliance Industries billionaire, Mastodon’s antivirality, Meta Quest Pro No, Protocol goes dark, and more
12. 15 NovStart Up No.1901: Russian software embedded in apps, do speed traps stop speeders?, FTX v online poker cheating, and more
13. 14 NovStart Up No.1900: Musk’s employee chat, toddler or startup CEO?, microbiome v space, Copilot AI lawsuit, Meta kills smartwatch, and more

October 2022

1. 21 OctStart Up No.1899: LinkedIn battles fake Apple and Amazon accounts, AI coding lawsuit, wind turbines with no blades, and more
2. 20 OctStart Up No.1898: what AI tells us about human grammar, pricing the ‘moron risk premium’, get rich hacking legally!, and more
3. 19 OctStart Up No.1897: disinformation on Wikipedia, Apple Remote implies USB-C iPhone, DuckDuckGo browses, Semaform?, and more
4. 18 OctStart Up No.1896: UK smart meter data grab, Stable Diffusion biz gets VC boost, Intel mulls job cuts, Denmark’s AI party, and more
5. 17 OctStart Up No.1895: US ban on chips for China bites deep, why defeat would help the Tories, metaverse lacks a chorus, and more
6. 14 OctStart Up No.1894: ghostwriting tweets for VCs, assisted death by AI, Netflix’s ad plan, the economics of happiness, and more
7. 13 OctStart Up No.1893: Amazon’s home data dream, Facebook sued over OnlyFans, Pixel Watch review, fracking and cancer?, and more
8. 12 OctStart Up No.1892: Meta launches new VR headset (and legs), GPT-3 writes for you, the missing Apple Watch workouts, and more
9. 11 OctStart Up No.1891: the end of futurism?, Truss v solar farms, Binance’s $570m hack, more ads on Instagram!, the rise of myopia, and more
10. 10 OctStart Up No.1890: Facebook’s Metaverse – good or bad?, UK aims to cap electricity pricing, the self-driving “scam”, K-Pop chat, and more
11. 7 OctStart Up No.1889: Google shows off AI HD video generator, Royal Mail goes for barcodes, streaming services churn rises, and more
12. 6 OctStart Up No.1888: Amazon kills Glow for kids, how the Ukraine-Russia war could (will?) end, police try DNA phenotyping, and more
13. 5 OctStart Up No.1887: EU mandates USB-C chargers, Musk says he’ll buy Twitter, analyse the Simpsons!, Rees-Mogg blocked, and more
14. 4 OctStart Up No.1886: UK aims for fusion plant by 2040, Ukraine’s green power, Kardashian fined on crypto hype, Apple v crashes, and more
15. 3 OctStart Up No.1885: why Stadia died, Truss – the normie playing at rebellion, Cook hints at AR, Tesla shows off pointless robot, and more

September 2022

1. 30 SepStart Up No.1884: Rohingya backed by Amnesty report, Meta shows text-to-video prompt AI, solar power’s sure win, and more
2. 29 SepStart Up No.1883: TikTok has won, so what now?, podcasting hit pause, Make Me PM (don’t), BoE bails out pensions, and more
3. 28 SepStart Up No.1882: Facebook zaps Chinese and Russian disinfo campaigns, who wants to be PM?, bitcoin among the bears, and more
4. 27 SepStart Up No.1881: corporate America’s design passion, Cloudflare’s eSIM project, AI art gets copyright, TikTok abbreviators, and more
5. 26 SepStart Up No.1880: LinkedIn ran experiments on users, NYT A/Bs, Twitter’s Trump whistleblower speaks out, OpenAI does speech, and more
6. 23 SepStart Up No.1879: churches that surveil their flock, crypto data centre biz goes bust, Bowie by hairstyle, no flying cars for us, and more
7. 22 SepStart Up No.1878: the dark art of prompt injection, Ultra shows its paces, the closed caption boom, revisiting Serial, and more
8. 21 SepStart Up No.1877: YouTube ignores your Dislikes, spotting deepfake audio, Apple funds “small developer” lobby, and more
9. 20 SepStart Up No.1876: Russia’s trolls v Women’s March, ‘Serial’ conviction quashed, Apple’s satellite cost, nukes or no?, and more
10. 19 SepStart Up No.1875: the floppy disk survivor, how top-flight chess became poker, Ethereum’s big saving, Sim Nimby stops building, and more
11. 16 SepStart Up No.1874: Google’s new AI questioned, Queen’s funeral stops planes, eSIMs aplenty, who’s got it in for Patreon?, and more
12. 15 SepStart Up No.1873: Google cuts more projects, Patreon cuts staff, Apple’s silicon struggle, why seek dirt on Mudge?, and more
13. 14 SepStart Up No.1872: Google nixes Pixelbook, Instagram can’t catch TikTok, climate tipping points near, no port iPhone?, and more
14. 13 SepStart Up No.1871: why everything’s a subscription now, art communities ban AI, Peloton’s Wi-Fi trouble, iOS 16!, and more
15. 12 SepStart Up No.1870: how Britain’s papers responded to the Queen’s death, Russia routed on Ukraine fronts, text to AI video?, and more
16. 9 SepStart Up No.1869: higher temperatures mean angrier tweets, apocalypse Watch, TikTok’s unfair billions?, how Keffals won, and more
17. 8 SepStart Up No.1868: Cloudflare accused anew, Apple Watch Ultra, is GPT-3 an investigative journalist?, and more
18. 7 SepStart Up No.1867: KiwiFarms gone (again), Putin’s war chip shortage, US stymies China chip plans, fake science’s paper mills, and more
19. 6 SepStart Up No.1866: KiwiFarms really gone this time?, AI houses, who needs Apple’s Pro Watch?, Saudis use app to snitch, and more
20. 5 SepStart Up No.1865: Twitter’s disinfo underfunding, Cloudflare drops KiwiFarms, will AI replace actors?, Truss’s promises, and more
21. 2 SepStart Up No.1864: US police’s surveillance via ads, edit your tweets (at a price), Alexa’s money for poo, DALL•E albums, and more
22. 1 SepStart Up No.1863: AI painting wins fine arts prize, Dall-E expands, the Instagram verification scam, Twitter Circles?, and more

August 2022

1. 31 AugStart Up No.1862: how Twitter’s OnlyFans scheme flopped, copyright questions for AI images, Snap cuts?, and more
2. 30 AugStart Up No.1861: Greenland ice melt will raise seas, the challenge for Apple’s AR glasses, WhatsApp supercharges, and more
3. 29 AugStart Up No.1860: Electricity traders get nervous, are half of bitcoin trades fake?, meet Biden’s social media maven, and more
4. 26 AugStart Up No.1859: Twitter does podcasts!, Microsoft scammers try USB sticks, is this “peak TV”?, IMDb’s review bombs, and more
5. 25 AugStart Up No.1858: Japan likes nuclear again, Twitter v Musk (and the Chinese), California to ban fuel cars, AI rapper dumped, and more
6. 24 AugStart Up No.1857: Twitter hit by ex-security chief’s claims, why Google research is a bad idea, Europe’s spyware boom, and more
7. 23 AugStart Up No.1856: Google’s CSA missteps, AI-generated music video, UK faces winter blackouts, Twitter’s lost city?, and more
8. 22 AugStart Up No.1855: Find My becomes Stalk Us, China and Germany hit by record droughts, America’s killer road(s), and more
9. 5 AugStart Up No.1854: bacteria to eat plastic, Ukraine’s 3D printer warriors, papal linkrot, Apple’s HR problem, and more
10. 4 AugStart Up No.1853: Germany’s nuclear pause, Truss’s solar farm madness, California’s mega-drought, Intel in trouble, and more
11. 3 AugStart Up No.1852: Twitter demands Musk details, TikTok’s moderator hell, another giant crypto hack, EV sounds, and more
12. 2 AugStart Up No.1851: AlphaFold predicts protein universe, data centres slow housing build, endemic monkeypox?, and more
13. 1 AugStart Up No.1850: Joe Manchin – the good climate guy?, defending British Gas’s profits, why Twitter still has Trends, and more

July 2022

1. 29 JulStart Up No.1849: Instagram reverting its changes, how TikTok changes the game, the trouble with private jets, and more
2. 28 JulStart Up No.1848: Facebook revenues and profits drop, the bad old Instagram?, FTC blocks Meta VR buy, an M2 Mac Pro?, and more
3. 27 JulStart Up No.1847: Zuckerberg tells Meta to tighten up, Covid is Wuhan market zoonosis, time to kill the leap second?, and more
4. 26 JulStart Up No.1846: TikTok’s victory, Apple’s case against phone cases, werewolf erotica gigwork, Intel wins MediaTek deal, and more
5. 25 JulStart Up No.1845: inside Newport’s chip fab, FBI concern over Huawei kit, Musk and Brin split over wife, AI engineer fired, and more
6. 22 JulStart Up No.1844: TikTok takes over teenagers’ news, blockchain business sparks forest fire, when AI takes over writing, and more
7. 21 JulStart Up No.1843: Russia tries to hack hacking Ukrainians, the climate dark ages, Tesla sells 75% of its bitcoin, airporters!, and more
8. 20 JulStart Up No.1842: Musk v Twitter set for October, heat burns cloud services, showrunners’ gripes about streaming, and more
9. 19 JulStart Up No.1841: Twitter went easy on Trump, has the US hit the EV tipping point?, UK wind costs a quarter of gas, and more
10. 18 JulStart Up No.1840: censoring novels in the cloud, the Channel migrant supply chain, Celsius hits zero, Fahrenheit passes 100, and more
11. 15 JulStart Up No.1839: Facebook criticised over India report, DARPA looks at open source, M2 MacBook Air reviewed, and more
12. 14 JulStart Up No.1838: Google says IG and TikTok eating into search, playing Doom in Doom, that Twitter-Musk lawsuit, and more
13. 13 JulStart Up No.1837: a remote worker’s remote death, Hive to cut some device support, how Musk made Twitter worse, and more
14. 12 JulStart Up No.1836: UK energy prices set to rocket in winter, iPad beta so-so, alt-right spins Musk exit, Uber’s whistleblower, and more
15. 11 JulStart Up No.1835: huge leak shows Uber’s lobbying op, Twitter shapes up to Musk’s pullout, how bad UI causes scams, and more
16. 8 JulStart Up No.1834: Musk’s Twitter deal near collapse, MI5 and FBI warn on China, asymptomatic monkeypox?, and more
17. 7 JulStart Up No.1833: social media threatens Kenya elections, Apple to offer “Lockdown” on phones, hacking Ronin, lockscreen ads?, and more
18. 6 JulStart Up No.1832: why black investors lost out worst from crypto’s crash, languages for the web, the sand battery, the China hack, and more
19. 5 JulStart Up No.1831: Japan ruling endangers algorithms, why this crypto crash is different, the barcode stamps, and more
20. 4 JulStart Up No.1830: explaining those odd wrong-number texts, Covid’s missing immunity, Google offers abortion data deletion, and more
21. 1 JulStart Up No.1829: how hackers swayed legal battles, the sentience problem, crypto exchange in fire sale, PC sale drop forecast, and more

June 2022

1. 30 JunStart Up No.1828: the challenge of good recommendations, G7 fails the summit test, iPhone at 15, Substack cuts staff, and more
2. 29 JunStart Up No.1827: Instagram and Facebook move quickly on abortion content, Cruise’s cinema control, 2FA trouble, and more
3. 28 JunStart Up No.1826: the data-lax period tracker, China’s surveillance future, urban dwellers lose gut bacteria, better against Tether, and more
4. 27 JunStart Up No.1825: the internet’s true fans, EU countries shut out Google Analytics, Apple headset in January?, and more
5. 24 JunStart Up No.1824: Facebook’s indifference to elections, on Ukraine’s front line, a crypto phone (again?), Netflix confirms ad tier, and more
6. 23 JunStart Up No.1823: our ubiquitous camera future, America’s conspiracy politics, bad news about fuel prices, polio in London?, and more
7. 22 JunStart Up No.1822: US DoJ blocks Facebook ad tool, dark mode not so good, Strava’s mystery users, US’s semiconductor slump, and more
8. 21 JunStart Up No.1821: Facebook’s Haugen seeks non-profit, spot the drowning kid!, EU’s unplanted trees, Brexit’s miss, and more
9. 20 JunStart Up No.1820: how China uses Covid passes for control, TikTok’s remote data access, name that plant!, the death of God?, and more
10. 17 JunStart Up No.1819: Musk wants a billion Twitter users, Apple’s £750m “throttling” charge, satellites on pause, M2 Air v Mac Pro, and more
11. 16 JunStart Up No.1818: US anti-abortion clinics get Facebook data, the TikTok terror, has China heard aliens?, crypto culture, and more
12. 15 JunStart Up No.1817: renewables bail out Texas grid, pricey city life, working in ‘oil slicks’, the (small) joy of premium economy, and more
13. 14 JunStart Up No.1816: Big tech to sign up to EU concession rules, is DNA theft on the way?, bitcoin plunge helps environment, and more
14. 13 JunStart Up No.1815: Google engineer claims a sentient AI, Meta halts consumer Portal, smartphones during wartime, and more
15. 3 JunStart Up No.1814: Instagram’s Iran failings, US rolls toward antitrust, cars v pedestrians, the impending food crisis, and more
16. 2 JunStart Up No.1813: the weird world of crypto stans, Iran reaches nuclear capability, the alarms ignored before Uvalde, and more
17. 1 JunStart Up No.1812: why plastics recycling won’t work, Qualcomm wants a chunk of Arm, no Apple headset this year?, and more

May 2022

1. 31 MayStart Up No.1811: is Alexa charging you to pray?, crypto’s effective critic, Apple’s VR headset looks close, and more
2. 30 MayStart Up No.1810: Luna’s real losers, can kelp save the world?, ransomware for good, Black Mirror’s coming back, and more
3. 27 MayStart Up No.1809: who does mass surveillance really protect?, fusion’s quixotic quest, Madonna’s NFT flops, and more
4. 26 MayStart Up No.1808: FTC charges Twitter over 2FA phone numbers, Musk shifts to equity, murder author guilty of.. murder, and more
5. 25 MayStart Up No.1807: Ukraine’s electric bike warriors, touchscreens v drivers, China’s Uyghur data revealed, Clegg’s metaverse, and more
6. 24 MayStart Up No.1806: Clearview AI fined £7.5m, windfall tax on the way, is GDPR working?, crypto and race, Apple’s ‘DIY’ kit, and more
7. 23 MayStart Up No.1805: fake news about fake news study, on being married to Musk, TikTok’s booming audience, monkeypox!, and more
8. 20 MayStart Up No.1804: the US’s desperate need for data privacy, writing about pedestrian deaths, ‘bionic reading’?, GOP v Google, and more
9. 19 MayStart Up No.1803: Google shuts Russian offices, Tesla’s ESG failure, Musk’s Buffalo silence, the wheat forecast, dictionary fun, and more
10. 18 MayStart Up No.1802: Apple headset history leaks, ‘cryware’ targets crypto, Musk and the irrelevant spambots, Napster sold, and more
11. 17 MayStart Up No.1801: Facebook’s fear of the right wing, Christchurch’s missed chance, speeding’s real death toll, war by ratio, and more
12. 16 MayStart Up No.1800: platforms struggle to remove Buffalo video, will USB-C replace Lightning?, China phone market stalls, and more
13. 13 MayStart Up No.1799: why Twitter lost its celebrities, making computers much faster, Facebook plans hardware cuts, and more
14. 12 MayStart Up No.1798: Google’s I/O detailed, how and why Terra lost its peg, China military rehearses Taiwan “unification”, and more
15. 11 MayStart Up No.1797: Apple kills off the last iPod, Musk says Trump’s Twitter will return, Google calls for US privacy law, and more
16. 10 MayStart Up No.1796: YouTubers go after PC scam callers, mugged for crypto, speed limiters redux, Apple’s China shift, and more
17. 9 MayStart Up No.1795: Musk’s big plans for Twitter subs, the trouble with nurdles, is “cheap and plentiful” over?, unicorns crash, and more
18. 6 MayStart Up No.1794: “kill passwords” say Apple/Google/Microsoft, Facebook’s Australia blowup, tracked by drones, and more
19. 5 MayStart Up No.1793: America’s new abortion surveillance landscape, Musk v Twitter redux, pig heart man died with pig virus, and more
20. 4 MayStart Up No.1792: the people who get stuff done for Musk, UK ditches tech regulator plans, India and Pakistan heatwave goes on, and more
21. 3 MayStart Up No.1791: EU accuses Apple over NFC access, Spanish PM hit by NSO malware, Facebook kills its podcast business, and more
22. 2 MayStart Up No.1790: why and how Ive left Apple, the vampires that aren’t, the original Post Office journalist, advising Musk, and more

April 2022

1. 29 AprStart Up No.1789: Snap gets into drones, Twitter overcounted users, Nigeria blocks millions of phones, why SSNs?, and more
2. 28 AprStart Up No.1788: why Musk still might not buy Twitter, HBO’s QAnon show shadowbanned, Apple unveils repair scheme, and more
3. 27 AprStart Up No.1787: more on Musk (afraid so), Russia cuts gas to Poland, accountants v crypto, Ikea’s winding road to sales, and more
4. 26 AprStart Up No.1786: what Musk needs to do with Twitter, North Korea hackers launder crypto, Russia bans chess.com, and more
5. 25 AprStart Up No.1785: EU outlaws dark patterns and opens up algorithms, Twitter talking to Musk, why fewer roads speeds up roads, and more
6. 22 AprStart Up No.1784: YouTube not such a rabbit hole, Musk lines up dosh, the case for ebikes, beat the climate challenge, and more
7. 21 AprStart Up No.1783: US sanctions Russian bitcoin miners, the poetry of repetition evasion, why online offence is inevitable, and more
8. 20 AprStart Up No.1782: how to speed up your fibre, the price of pumping crypto, UK’s stalled tech Brexit plan, US loses to spam, and more
9. 19 AprStart Up No.1781: the trouble with NSO Group, the killer robots are (nearly?) here, how Twitter could make money, InfoWars bust?, and more
10. 18 AprStart Up No.1780: yet another cryptocoin hack, online shopping reverts to trend, Russia’s true Covid toll, Musk v Twitter redux, and more
11. 15 AprStart Up No.1779: down among the Covid “police”, how to join Nato, yay Sidekick!, Peloton raises plan prices, and more
12. 14 AprStart Up No.1778: metaverse company offers (virtual) immortality, Dall•E 2 tested, AlphaFold gets big, NFTs on the slide?, and more
13. 13 AprStart Up No.1777: the psychopathy of bitcoin, the mystery of the Tesla Twitter bot army, Mac maker hit by lockdown, PM fined, and more
14. 12 AprStart Up No.1776: Twitter v Musk pt..3?, PC market stalls, Apple may face new EU music antitrust, get random on Substack, and more
15. 11 AprStart Up No.1775: how smartphones defended Kyiv, who’s bitcoin for?, six-word sci-fi, when Facebook bought Instagram, and more
16. 8 AprStart Up No.1774: how bitcoin helped trace a child abuse site, life in El Salvador, FBI v Russian malware, exit Twitter?, and more
17. 7 AprStart Up No.1773: Facebook plans virtual currency (again), Twitter edits?, AirTags one year on, go wild with WD-40, and more
18. 6 AprStart Up No.1772: Musk gets Twitter board seat, Musk v the SEC, your lost photo masterpieces, Yandex’s Russian data questions, and more
19. 5 AprStart Up No.1771: climate catastrophe deadline, old video meets new music, how ByteDance scraped a leg up, battery prices up, and more
20. 4 AprStart Up No.1770: next-day delivery in the Pacific, overestimating Russia’s army, save with cooler kettles and washing, and more
21. 1 AprStart Up No.1769: Facebook bug boosted bad content, TSMC sees slowdown, wind v misinformation, Wyze’s slow hack, and more

March 2022

1. 31 MarStart Up No.1768: Facebook’s campaign against TikTok, the interop impossibility, Google snips (some) racy results, ask the idol!, and more
2. 30 MarStart Up No.1767: social media v teens, another huge web3 hack, FinFisher bankrupt?, the origin of “Skip Intro”, Russia’s army flop, and more
3. 29 MarStart Up No.1766: Nokia’s Russian surveillance legacy, LinkedIn’s AI marketers, DMA comes into focus, lower AirPod demand?, and more
4. 28 MarStart Up No.1765: Apple v sideloaders, why ApeCoin?, videogames teaching history, Exxon aims to mine bitcoin, jumpers on!, and more
5. 25 MarStart Up No.1764: EU DMA moves on, how Ukraine targets Russian tanks, Grimes the hacker?, Sweden’s Covid mistakes, and more
6. 24 MarStart Up No.1763: Google gives Spotify special billing, Instagram offers chronological, Apple buys banking startup, and more
7. 23 MarStart Up No.1762: Russia’s shifting tactics, Royal Mint turns scrap into gold, Google’s lawyerly emails, build your own Bing, and more
8. 22 MarStart Up No.1761: big tech’s antitrust loss, Facebook fails Rohingya again, Russians rush for Wikipedia, Belgium nukes on, and more
9. 21 MarStart Up No.1760: Telegram escapes Brazil ban, Online Safety Bill redux, Vimeo backpedals (a bit), Cameron’s green screwup, and more
10. 18 MarStart Up No.1759: UK publishes online harms bill, coder targets Russian files, Studio Display gets lukewarm hello, and more
11. 17 MarStart Up No.1758: Dorries profiled, Go player banned for AI use, NYT zaps Wordle Archive, Google as maths teacher, and more
12. 16 MarStart Up No.1757: the AI bioweapon maker, slower Chipmunks, Instagram forced out of Russia, Sizewell C extends, and more
13. 15 MarStart Up No.1756: Shenzhen in lockdown, iCloud Private Relay criticised, Ukraine goes for Clearview AI, ‘Studio’ or ‘Pro’?, and more
14. 14 MarStart Up No.1755: why Facebook’s Diem died, the war-prepped Finns, shrinkflation!, end of the 27in iMac, spamming Russia, and more
15. 11 MarStart Up No.1754: Ukraine’s tech sector under attack, war causes neon gas shortage, don’t frack – insulate, Twitter’s growth plans, and more
16. 10 MarStart Up No.1753: Sandberg claims women don’t do war, perfect multiplication, how best to use Twitter, personalised TV?, and more
17. 9 MarStart Up No.1752: Apple displays at speed, US gets into solar as oil dwindles, Russians turn to VPNs, army logistics, and more
18. 8 MarStart Up No.1751: life under surveillance, Coinbase blocks 25,000 Russian addresses, Tesla FSD doesn’t, YouTube Kids’ flaws, and more
19. 7 MarStart Up No.1750: TikTok suspends Russian uploads, QR codes’ quiet triumph, analysing the Ukraine war, no search numbers?, and more
20. 4 MarStart Up No.1749: Icann leaves Russia online, Twitter goes Birdwatching, AMD and Intel ban, Venezuela users face crypto block, and more
21. 3 MarStart Up No.1748: the Ukraine war on Wikipedia, Amazon shutters retail stores, Fitbit recalls Ionic, fixing AirTags, and more
22. 2 MarStart Up No.1747: Apple halts Russian sales, Russians buy crypto, the missing cyberwar, “yes, Putin would 🍄”, convoy tracking, and more
23. 1 MarStart Up No.1746: Russian disinformation squashed, crypto keeps running, Dune DAO puzzles, moderating Pornhub, and more

February 2022

1. 28 FebStart Up No.1745: Instagram’s fake war reporters, vertical tabs!, Peloton’s rust trouble, Covid from Wuhan market?, and more
2. 25 FebStart Up No.1744: US mulls cyberattack on Russia, Ukraine systems hit by virus, NFT auction yanked, AMP nearer death, and more
3. 24 FebStart Up No.1743: how Facebook enabled truck protest, cyberwar and Ukraine, Julie Meyer faces arrest, Saudi’s “pink hydrogen”, and more
4. 23 FebStart Up No.1742: fighting Russia on.. Twitter?, Canadian protest crypto gets moving, the smart home puzzle, Horizon’s many bugs, and more
5. 22 FebStart Up No.1741: unmasking the fake design agency, the wrong crypto argument, are Groups rural?, EV prices set to fall, and more
6. 21 FebStart Up No.1740: EU eyes search “spam ads”, NFTs are MLM, Wikipedia and the high five, Metaverse moderation hell, and more
7. 18 FebStart Up No.1739: how NSO’s Pegasus was discovered, DeepMind controls fusion reactor, the trouble with AI transcription, and more
8. 17 FebStart Up No.1738: Wikipedia v web3, how Johnson was persuaded on climate change, track your mains frequency!, and more
9. 16 FebStart Up No.1737: is misinformation up or is that fake?, the 14-month Covid case, HMRC seizes NFT, NYT’s Wordle shock, and more
10. 15 FebStart Up No.1736: Meta’s metaverse moderation miss, Worldle!, Apple buys AI Music (why?), SuperBowl goes crypto, and more
11. 14 FebStart Up No.1735: Facebook’s toxic superuser problem, AirTags investigated, can Reels challenge TikTok?, batteries!, and more
12. 11 FebStart Up No.1734: Google+ is dead (again), who wants Macron’s DNA?, electricity ‘surge pricing’ coming, deciphering Indus, and more
13. 10 FebStart Up No.1733: hands off in the Meta-verse, how Melania Trump bought her own NFT, Myanmar searching for VPNs, and more
14. 9 FebStart Up No.1732: Nvidia-ARM deal collapses, Peloton cuts 2,800 jobs, Meta evades antitrust?, DOJ recovers $3.6bn bitcoin, and more
15. 8 FebStart Up No.1731: Dutch fine Apple again, Spotify’s Big Short, video games that spy, North Korea’s crypto nukes, and more
16. 7 FebStart Up No.1730: technology’s FOMO bullies, Apple yields minimally to Holland, how Russia-Ukraine could end, PelotoNike?, and more
17. 4 FebStart Up No.1729: iPhone privacy costs Meta $10bn, Windows on Apple’s ARM?, DeepMind tries coding, gas prices in context, and more
18. 3 FebStart Up No.1728: Facebook users decline, Windows wins supply fight over Chromebooks, goodbye Google, all about Covid, and more
19. 2 FebStart Up No.1727: inside a ransomware gang, how Casio revolutionised reggae, Denmark’s Covid forecast success, and more
20. 1 FebStart Up No.1726: NYT buys Wordle, counting the unboosted US Covid casualties, search for old books and lost internet, and more

January 2022

1. 31 JanStart Up No.1725: how the FTC is changing antitrust, Lynch loses v HP, Wordle for airports, fossil fuel says ‘plastics’, and more
2. 28 JanStart Up No.1724: GPT-3 gets smarter, Putin backs bitcoin, how Fox News prompts sexist tweets, AirTags redux, and more
3. 27 JanStart Up No.1723: AirTags locate secret German agency, LG’s advertising TV, EU court reverses Intel fine, NSO seeks sale, and more
4. 26 JanStart Up No.1722: now there’s AI that builds AI, FTC fines review-throttling site, blockchain 13 years on, and more
5. 25 JanStart Up No.1721: Google sued over location ‘dark patterns’, Dutch fine Apple, even yet another NFT hacking for profit, and more
6. 24 JanStart Up No.1720: faster internet means less Big Society, how the Covid-19 dashboard was built, the trouble with earbuds, and more
7. 21 JanStart Up No.1719: Djokovic’s strange ‘biotech’ investment, Covid’s air loss, NFT site drop kills NFTs, crypto miners under fire, and more
8. 20 JanStart Up No.1718: should social media ban misinformation?, Afghans try cryptocurrency, London drivers face road pricing, and more
9. 19 JanStart Up No.1717: YouTube halts original content, Microsoft buys Blizzard, US 5G airline row grows, crypto ad boom, and more
10. 18 JanStart Up No.1716: Safari’s privacy leak, UK to subsidise energy suppliers?, the wrath of Cummings, the end of Covid, and more
11. 17 JanStart Up No.1715: new Facebook and Google antitrust details, the undersea fibre empire, Canon’s printer DRM fail, and more
12. 14 JanStart Up No.1714: MS blamed on glandular fever virus, why NFTs are bad (astrobiologically), are App Store scams on demand?, and more
13. 13 JanStart Up No.1713: what if email were slower?, PC sales boom, Argentina roasts, scientists complain at Spotify misinfo, and more
14. 12 JanStart Up No.1712: today’s Wordle is ‘clone’, the 25-year road to pig-human transplants, how the iPlayer won, QR phishing, and more
15. 11 JanStart Up No.1711: coding supply chain undermined, the unheard Facebook chief, bitcoin miners seized in Kosovo, and more
16. 10 JanStart Up No.1710: Apple at $3 trillion, the central crypto question, Wordle that fights back, Cortana’s Achilles heel, and more

2021 255

December 2021

1. 24 DecStart Up No.1709: GPT-3 as the spirit writer, biggest wind farm turns on, Intel’s unapology to China, the Alexa gap, and more
2. 23 DecStart Up No.1708: US Army builds vaccine against variants, WordPress’s democracy push, NSO’s Ugandan hubris, and more
3. 22 DecStart Up No.1707: TikTok tops Google, Manchin’s coal goal, AirTags good or bad?, the email disinformation channel, and more
4. 21 DecStart Up No.1706: news’s next problem is summaries, Facebook’s Finland failure, China’s surveillance strategy, and more
5. 20 DecStart Up No.1705: TikTok fuels viral shooting fears, Omicron v LFTs, brainstorm the Beatles way!, BMJ roasts Facebook, and more
6. 17 DecStart Up No.1704: Facebook blocks surveillance firms, a radioactive president?, Toyota’s pay-to-drive, omicron’s 70x advantage, and more
7. 16 DecStart Up No.1703: Chinese hackers try log4j flaw, inside an NSO iMessage attack, Google tries AR again, is biomass bad?, and more
8. 15 DecStart Up No.1702: Instagram passes 2bn users, log4j’s scale revealed, Huawei’s surveillance questions, Snap’s ARv4, and more
9. 14 DecStart Up No.1701: Ressa blasts tech titans, Bukele rolls again on bitcoin, the Dunning-Kruger military AI, and more
10. 13 DecStart Up No.1700: Apache’s RCE flaws, the YouTuber detective, Twitter Spaces problems, chronological Instagram?, and more
11. 10 DecStart Up No.1699: inside Apple’s design labs, the ransomware front company, Paul Dacre spills Ofcom fix, Arm’s likely future, and more
12. 9 DecStart Up No.1698: metaverse marriage, Instagram’s mental health effects, Twitter’s true user base, Apple v Epic paused, and more
13. 8 DecStart Up No.1697: why the Veep doesn’t Bluetooth, Evergrande’s slide down, might Craig Wright really be Nakamoto?, and more
14. 7 DecStart Up No.1696: Life360’s data harvest, EU’s flatulent hydrogen policy, Rohingya sue Facebook, plastic man disarmed, and more
15. 6 DecStart Up No.1695: Apple’s AR glasses coming into focus?, Earth’s black box for climate doom, China’s fake Swiss scientist, and more
16. 3 DecStart Up No.1694: yet another crypto heist, a drop of Covid, is quantum computing anything?, FTC blocks ARM/Nvidia, and more
17. 2 DecStart Up No.1693: China’s ‘data trap’ in Africa, the metaverse’s latency problem, Qualcomm’s creepy always-on camera, and more
18. 1 DecStart Up No.1692: Second Life’s metaverse lessons, omicron was in Netherlands by mid-November, 3D printed eyes, and more

November 2021

1. 30 NovStart Up No.1691: Dorsey’s indicative career, ICO to fine Clearview AI £17m+, Australia aims at trolls, Giphy sale block?, and more
2. 29 NovStart Up No.1690: omicron puzzles, Israel v Iran in cyberwar, the problem with quantified athletes, why carbon taxes work, and more
3. 26 NovStart Up No.1689: Nigeria’s pandemic-fuelled cybercrime boom, the US trust deficit, Ofgem’s failure, NSO faces new bans, and more
4. 25 NovStart Up No.1688: Argentina embraces right to be forgotten, Facebook’s non-average effects, India fertility rate drops, and more
5. 24 NovStart Up No.1687: Apple sues NSO over Pegasus, how Clubhouse rose and fell, Sweden moots bitcoin mining ban, and more
6. 23 NovStart Up No.1686: redefining sharks via Reddit, the Long Boom in retrospect, Facebook Papers will be public, and more
7. 22 NovStart Up No.1685: how Facebook and Google funded fake news in Myanmar, Iran’s hackers hit US papers, Norway’s EV problem, and more
8. 19 NovStart Up No.1684: Facebook’s “virus of lies”, FTC queries Nvidia’s ARM buy, votes for six-year-olds?, Ford gets chippy, and more
9. 18 NovStart Up No.1683: Apple offers DIY fixes, Amazon cuts up Visa, Taiwan proposes deepfake porn laws, peak phosphorus?, and more
10. 17 NovStart Up No.1682: the reality the ‘Constitution’ bid, the bad methane news, Russia admits satellite destruction, and more
11. 16 NovStart Up No.1681: Russia creates dangerous space debris cloud, has Google folded its Fold?, quit doomscrolling!, and more
12. 15 NovStart Up No.1680: FBI site used for email spoofing, find that dog 2021-style, Ukraine goes crypto, newsletter overload, and more
13. 12 NovStart Up No.1679: UK proposes algorithm work regulation, Covid’s deer reservoir, Google’s double-edged cookie win, and more
14. 11 NovStart Up No.1678: how Facebook feeds on plagiarism, YouTube hides dislike counts, the ‘Apple Car’?, EU beats Google, and more
15. 10 NovStart Up No.1677: Instagram’s bitcoin hostage videos, the fake science papers, Volvo v Tesla, the sleep tracking question, and more
16. 9 NovStart Up No.1676: Squid Game shows translator shortage, ransomware gangs nabbed, VC-funded fusion?, MMORPG deflation, and more
17. 8 NovStart Up No.1675: copying Warhols for fun and profit, CO2 emissions flat (but temperatures up), the real problem with AMP, and more
18. 5 NovStart Up No.1674: Facebook’s climate denial problem, DeepMind tries drugs, LA’s oil fields, Surface Duo 2 reviewed, and more
19. 4 NovStart Up No.1673: NSO blocked by US, what the Apple Cloth tells us about ourselves, jellyfish v nuclear power, 3ºC hotter, and more
20. 3 NovStart Up No.1672: Microsoft, Minecraft, metaverse?, Github’s China question, Nintendo Switch chip drought, and more
21. 2 NovStart Up No.1671: the climate change doomsters, Apple plans autodial after crashes, jail threat for trolling?, how Street View sees us, and more
22. 1 NovStart Up No.1670: Facebook v the journalists, pricing Apple’s privacy changes, zombie energy stats, kids + screens = OK?, and more

October 2021

1. 29 OctStart Up No.1669: Facebook goes full Meta, Apple sales crimped by supply chain, YouTube v Roku gets nasty, and more
2. 28 OctStart Up No.1668: Facebook knew of political ad risk, adtech’s new watchers, phones leaked GPS after opt-out, SpaceX’s leaky toilet, and more
3. 27 OctStart Up No.1667: much more from the Facebook Papers, Iran suffers fuel cyberattack, a real giant iPod, Cobol’s problem, and more
4. 26 OctStart Up No.1666: Facebook in the spotlight again, making wood sharper than steel, Google ad antitrust case, GHGs hit record, and more
5. 25 OctStart Up No.1665: a new Facebook whistleblower (with whistle), YouTube’s slow train to truth, inside Apple’s chips, and more
6. 22 OctStart Up No.1664: Twitter says its algorithm has a rightwing bias, Google cuts Play Store fees, “waning” immunity isn’t, and more
7. 21 OctStart Up No.1663: what’s really watched on Netflix, peak oil coming in 2025, Facebook’s coming name change, and more
8. 20 OctStart Up No.1662: account recovery is hard on purpose, the echo chamber misconception, COP26’s empty promise, and more
9. 19 OctStart Up No.1661: the ‘dead internet’ conspiracy theory, Apple’s new chips, stop Escobar’s hippos!, Canon’s ink lawsuit, and more
10. 18 OctStart Up No.1660: facial recognition reaches UK schools, Facebook v hate speech, LinkedIn exits China, the end of cheap British chicken?, and more
11. 15 OctStart Up No.1659: Congress suggests algorithmic regulation, the unreal TikTokers, into the bat cave!, UK braces for shortages, and more
12. 14 OctStart Up No.1658: Amazon faces copying claim, AirPods for health?, the Facebook-using teens, Cpt Kirk opines on space, Big Bang mystery, and more
13. 13 OctStart Up No.1657: why TikTok is underestimated, Facebook’s secret blacklist, America’s supply chain trouble, steak as champagne?, and more
14. 12 OctStart Up No.1656: energy prices rocket worldwide, a Facebook ban for reducing Facebook use, what do people *really* search for?, and more
15. 11 OctStart Up No.1655: TikTok’s inevitable spiral, Uncomfortability, NFT vandalism!, the odd Jobs-Dell deal, Ozy’s newsletter scam, and more
16. 8 OctStart Up No.1654: a deep dive on Facebook’s Instagram research, the reply guy PR guy, what Twitch pays its streamers, Ozy lies!, and more
17. 7 OctStart Up No.1653: how to regulate Facebook (and the rest), can fusion ever do it?, Twitter preps pre-tweet warning, a malaria vaccine!, and more
18. 6 OctStart Up No.1652: Facebook whistleblower urges regulation, the cult of Ozy, carmakers v chipmakers, Salesforce’s bad dataviz, and more
19. 5 OctStart Up No.1651: Facebook whistleblower speaks out, Clearview adds AI to face-finding tools, why you don’t need a VPN, and more
20. 4 OctStart Up No.1650: internal dissent grows at Facebook, Ozy Media’s Ozymandias moment, Britain’s nightmarish winter, the methane problem, and more
21. 1 OctStart Up No.1649: Facebook grilled, vaccine mandates work, USB-C gets more confusing, Ozy spirals, a 4K Switch?, and more

September 2021

1. 30 SepStart Up No.1648: Google reinvents search (again), YouTube to zap all vaccine misinfo, why gas prices spiked, OTP bots, and more
2. 29 SepStart Up No.1647: Facebook mulled ‘tweens’ targeting, Amazon gets robotic, Morocco sun to power UK, AirTag phishing, and more
3. 28 SepStart Up No.1646: Instagram pauses plans for kids version, anti-vaxxers infest Clubhouse, China faces power shortage, and more
4. 27 SepStart Up No.1645: gig workers struggle and want an exit, UK fuel depletion shows supply chain fragility, Android in court, and more
5. 24 SepStart Up No.1644: in search of the hurricane delivery man, the UK’s missed insulation scheme, Upworthy as data, and more
6. 23 SepStart Up No.1643: Lithuania says ditch your Xiami phone, Facebook seeks new PR sheen, Bellingcat’s eye in the sky, gas prices to stay high, and more
7. 22 SepStart Up No.1642: the UK’s missed chance for renewables, Telenor exits Myanmar, the totally repairable laptop, and more
8. 21 SepStart Up No.1641: the undercounted greenhouse gas emissions, Facebook’s troll farm problem, US rebuffs Huawei again, and more
9. 20 SepStart Up No.1640: Russia forces Apple, Google and Telegram climbdowns, Facebook responds to WSJ stories, Amazon zaps 3,000 brands, and more
10. 17 SepStart Up No.1639: Facebook’s many moderation failures, Instagram chief dinged over car analogy, the coming energy revolution, and more
11. 16 SepStart Up No.1638: Facebook’s infuriating algorithm, Apple’s CPU gains hit a wall, Microsoft’s no-password path, Congress to quiz Instagram, and more
12. 15 SepStart Up No.1637: Facebook knew of Instagram’s downsides, European energy prices rocket, the trouble with preprints, an App Store future, and more
13. 14 SepStart Up No.1636: Facebook’s VIP content exemption, fake Walmart crypto PR makes someone rich, new NSO iPhone exploit, your home on Pangaea!, and more
14. 13 SepStart Up No.1635: the Apple-Epic decision in detail, correcting slanted Nazi histories on Wikipedia, how DeepMind plotted to break from Google, and more
15. 10 SepStart Up No.1634: Facebook launches ‘smart’ glasses, Apple’s bug bounty questioned, Kenya and Brazil’s social media distortion, and more
16. 9 SepStart Up No.1633: El Salvador’s rocky start, why science struggles with airborne disease, another fusion startup, TikTok in trouble?, and more
17. 8 SepStart Up No.1632: the cryptocruise cockup, El Salvador gets laser eyes, driver shortage hits drugs, new Apple MagSafe?, and more
18. 7 SepStart Up No.1631: Biden laptop repairman gets Twitter court bill, the supply chain lashes its tail, where crypto is really catching on, and more
19. 6 SepStart Up No.1630: Apple delays CSAM rollout, the flaws in the collapsed Florida condo, Banksy was warned of NFT hack, and more
20. 3 SepStart Up No.1629: Apple’s slow train to zero commission, Virgin Galactic grounded, Twitter seeks “social privacy”, and more
21. 2 SepStart Up No.1628: Facebook insurrection posts vanish, Reddit bans antivaxxers, Google Play revenue revealed, and more
22. 1 SepStart Up No.1627: Google and Apple face app store law, Andreessen on investment (et al), did Covid kill 4.5 million in India?, and more

August 2021

1. 31 AugStart Up No.1626: Apple’s internal culture conflict, China’s three-hour game-kid mandate, study says trolls always trolls, and more
2. 30 AugStart Up No.1625: web media’s uniqueness problem, Google’s $15bn gift to Apple, Covid oxygen need hits rocket launches, and more
3. 27 AugStart Up No.1624: a call for geoengineering, OS hackathon for car charging, Facebook considering Election Commission, and more
4. 26 AugStart Up No.1623: quantifying your carbon costs, Bosch says chip supply broken, illustrating AI, Samsung’s vanishing cloud, and more
5. 25 AugStart Up No.1622: the hard thing about writing videogames, AR for the ears, a bitcoin mortgage?, Cook’s first CEO decade, and more
6. 24 AugStart Up No.1621: fusion joy redux, GM recalls its Bolt EVs, Razer hacks Windows, EMF for profit, unbeaten text scammers, and more
7. 23 AugStart Up No.1620: Twitter’s broken verification, the $1bn chip machines, China’s “privacy” law, UK pauses NVidia-ARM, and more
8. 20 AugStart Up No.1619: Facebook offers metaverse meetings, Kabul crisis app tries to stay safe, Apple defends its hash, and more
9. 19 AugStart Up No.1618: social media tries to tackle the Taliban, NVidia’s CEO deepfakes himself, the dishonest paper on dishonesty, and more
10. 18 AugStart Up No.1617: have we hit ‘peak car’?, biometric threat to Afghans, shipping prices rocket, Twitter’s culture shock, and more
11. 17 AugStart Up No.1616: the American failure, GOP scrubs Trump’s Afghan deal, Yik Yak returns, Sonos beats Google, ‘Nestflix’, and more
12. 16 AugStart Up No.1615: why consumption stalls climate action, how Likes make us outraged, when Google bought Android, and more
13. 13 AugStart Up No.1614: what crypto really enables, China hushed lab leak talk, how VPNs spy on you, the challenge of climate politics, and more
14. 12 AugStart Up No.1613: how Facebook failed on football, how the giant DeFi hack was done, Taliban besiege Clubhouse (yup), and more
15. 11 AugStart Up No.1612: Facebook v White House on vaccines, a map of climate pledges (and heat), tech’s illustration loop, Apple on CSAM, and more
16. 10 AugStart Up No.1611: Apple responds on CSAM scanning concerns, Time Turning with RFID (sorta), the UK’s Theranos, and more
17. 9 AugStart Up No.1610: Apple CSAM system redux, Amazon’s sellers hunt the negs, Huawei slumps, FTC slaps Facebook, bulk up!, and more
18. 6 AugStart Up No.1609: row over Apple’s CSAM scanning, Mozilla slaps Facebook, Gulf Stream warning, will UK block ARM sale?, and more
19. 5 AugStart Up No.1608: Facebook blocks ad disinfo researchers, Cuba v the internet, our gloomy writing, Google v Daily Mail readers, and more
20. 4 AugStart Up No.1607: the electric car’s forgotten history, bear fight!, Surgisphere’s fake paper lives on, how to baffle climbers, and more
21. 3 AugStart Up No.1606: how NSO’s Pegasus targeted women, Belarus heavies v sprinter, Theranos heads to trial, medals tabled, and more
22. 2 AugStart Up No.1605: the bad bad not good metaverse, AI’s Covid failure, Bored Apes go NFT, teens v smartphones, and more

July 2021

1. 30 JulStart Up No.1604: China’s climate challenge, America’s emissions trouble, Chromebooks zoom, Google bans ‘sugar daddy’ apps, and more
2. 29 JulStart Up No.1603: Google and Facebook demand workers get jabbed, the thermocline of truth, hello social media managers, and more
3. 28 JulStart Up No.1602: Facebook plans for the ‘metaverse’ (while its users skip vaccines), ransomware hits South Africa ports, and more
4. 27 JulStart Up No.1601: how Ted Lasso was created, how QR codes track you (even on menus), why are UK Covid cases down?, and more
5. 26 JulStart Up No.1600: the AI chatbot that reincarnated a fiancee, dead video site leads to porn embeds, Britain faces 40ºC future, and more
6. 23 JulStart Up No.1599: Intel warns chip shortage will go on, antivaxxers evade Facebook detection, tracking down bug study claims, and more
7. 22 JulStart Up No.1598: Wikipedia gets enterprising for money, was Emirati princess kidnapped via NSO Pegasus?, Twitter tries dislikes, and more
8. 21 JulStart Up No.1597: Toronto airport tested facial recognition, climate disruption worsens, Facebook’s misinformation puzzle, and more
9. 20 JulStart Up No.1596: US says China harbours ransomware gangs, the Solarpunk manifesto, Amazon stops NSO on AWS, and more
10. 19 JulStart Up No.1595: NSO Group blamed for hacking of activist phones, Facebook hits back over vaccination, climate change hits, and more
11. 16 JulStart Up No.1594: MPs call for streaming ‘reset’, where’s the real climate change action?, tension inside the W3C, all about ∂, and more
12. 15 JulStart Up No.1593: Facebook’s data mess, avoiding verification scams, Windows in the cloud, TikTok hits 3bn downloads, and more
13. 14 JulStart Up No.1592: the trouble with hygiene theatre, tracking ransomware demands, how gas generators gouged Texas, and more
14. 13 JulStart Up No.1591: social media abusers miss penalty, Google’s Pichai interviewed, Binance under scrutiny, Intel’s lost plan, and more
15. 12 JulStart Up No.1590: the world of hyperobjects, the joy of Twitter, the risky carbon capture hype, the coming card shortage, and more
16. 9 JulStart Up No.1589: Zuckerberg and Sandberg v Pelosi, the Miami condo metaphor, EU fines car maker cartel €875m, and more
17. 8 JulStart Up No.1588: China harvests genetic data, US states to sue Google?, let’s go geothermal!, the Vivace mystery, and more
18. 7 JulStart Up No.1587: Vestager warns Apple on app stores, boring news means fewer views, superforecasting China v Taiwan, and more
19. 6 JulStart Up No.1586: talking about social warming, the internet’s missing register, breaking Twitter addiction, how Ever Given was freed, and more
20. 5 JulStart Up No.1585: REvil’s ransomware attack intensifies, the reality of climate apocalypse, gamers v scientists in beating fraud, and more
21. 2 JulStart Up No.1584: Instagram ‘no longer a photo app’, Robinhood’s reliance on memes and doge, NFTs or money laundering?, and more
22. 1 JulStart Up No.1583: Amazon demands FTC antitrust recusal, Robinhood fined $70m, the hijacked Klein bottle, and more

June 2021

1. 30 JunStart Up No.1582: Intel’s next chip is delayed (again), bigger iPads coming?, the mystery of the Apple bodycams, WD’s bad code, and more
2. 29 JunStart Up No.1581: Facebook wins FTC antitrust trial, what’s after AMP?, ‘SafeDollar’ gets hacked to $0, a political wife writes, and more
3. 28 JunStart Up No.1580: TikTok’s factory of factory videos, Covid hypotheses examined, awful data viz, why concrete goes rotten, and more
4. 25 JunStart Up No.1579: Facebook drives political divides, Garcia-Martinez on Silicon Valley, are you a serial killer?, crypto “experts”, and more
5. 24 JunStart Up No.1578: Tim Cook lobbies on antitrust, John McAfee found dead, Tim Berners-Lee on his NFT, and more
6. 23 JunStart Up No.1577: Google faces new EU antitrust trial, Brave gets into search, Iran halts crypto miners, the missed lockdown, and more
7. 22 JunStart Up No.1576: Google’s culture under the microscope, TikTok’s beauty problem, does spatial audio squash vocals?, and more
8. 21 JunStart Up No.1575: the G7 superspreaders, hacking USB sticks for cryptowallets, GPU prices ease, social media soft power, and more
9. 18 JunStart Up No.1574: half of ads on fake news via Google, the ‘green vortex’ saving the US, airlines may drop a pilot on long-haul, and more
10. 17 JunStart Up No.1573: antitrust laws would stall Apple apps, Facebook plans ads inside Oculus VR, Spotify copies Clubhouse, and more
11. 16 JunStart Up No.1572: AirBnB’s hush-money team, Lina Khan to chair FTC, US gets antitrust-y, PGP turns 30, China’s (radiation) leak, and more
12. 15 JunStart Up No.1571: valuing our content-driven lives, fake chips boom, the shipping container crisis, how graphs got started, and more
13. 14 JunStart Up No.1570: goodbye camera bumps?, how rightwing firms fooled Facebook, El Salvador’s payment problem, and more
14. 11 JunStart Up No.1569: Twitter plans easy newsletter signup, the right laws for algorithms, Apple plans no-password secure logon, and more
15. 10 JunStart Up No.1568: India’s WhatsApp misinformation problem, Pipeline bitcoin redux, creators hit burnout (and Apple tax), and more
16. 9 JunStart Up No.1567: the FBI’s huge app sting, Facebook’s flawed “Discover” app, machine learning’s medical problem, and more
17. 8 JunStart Up No.1566: FBI recovers Pipeline ransom bitcoin, writing celebrity apologies, why software’s so noisy, US drought, and more
18. 7 JunStart Up No.1565: Apple staff resist office return, the Tories’ NHS data grab, Nigeria bans Twitter, El Salvador to allow bitcoin, and more
19. 4 JunStart Up No.1564: Twitter offers subscription, US equates ransomware with terrorism, 16in MacBook Pro at WWDC?, and more
20. 3 JunStart Up No.1563: the mystery app topping the charts, Trump quits blogging, Stack Overflow sold, Apple planning ‘homeOS’?, and more
21. 2 JunStart Up No.1562: Twitter plans ‘wrongness’ markers, China’s coming pensioner boom, why UFOs aren’t aliens, more on Osaka, and more
22. 1 JunStart Up No.1561: Amazon gets meshy outdoors, Winslet on Instagram, US laws restrict police DNA trawls, cloning WordStar, and more

May 2021

1. 31 MayStart Up No.1560: an NFT purchase nightmare, WhatsApp reverses privacy policy threat, Google’s wearable problem, and more
2. 28 MayStart Up No.1559: Citizen app’s wild inside rise, cause of vaccine clots found, Texas winter deaths ‘undercount’, Instagram’s unLikes, and more
3. 27 MayStart Up No.1558: Google gets US hospital data deal, USB-C adds power, Cummings v the system, WhatsApp sues India, and more
4. 26 MayStart Up No.1557: Social media faces India ban, Russia funds vaccine disparagement, why robots need manners, vanishing pianos, and more
5. 25 MayStart Up No.1556: Florida’s barmy social media law, self-driving cars still lost, India hassles Twitter, Amazon dings fake reviews, and more
6. 24 MayStart Up No.1555: Apple v advertising, DeepMind seeks independence, link rot worsens, finding benefit in Bitcoin, and more
7. 21 MayStart Up No.1554: Snap tries Spectacles again, climate denial psychology, chip shortage worsens, Twitter reopens verification, and more
8. 20 MayStart Up No.1553: Apple seeks early ruling v Epic, Google AMP is dead, Amazon teams with Tile, what Google I/O missed, and more
9. 19 MayStart Up No.1552: beating Russian malware cheaply, Google I/O roundup, Apple’s M2 lineup takes shape, text scams’ scale, and more
10. 18 MayStart Up No.1551: Gaza’s blurred war, Apple’s China conundrum, lossless music loses on AirPods, Substack as soap opera, and more
11. 17 MayStart Up No.1550: the lifesaving tracing app, the antivax superspreaders, ransomware gangs go dark, Twitter plans subscriptions, and more
12. 14 MayStart Up No.1549: Apple unhires controversial ad man, seeking truth in India, beat that inbox!, Robinhood’s lottery design, and more
13. 13 MayStart Up No.1548: new ad man riles Apple staff, how Covid wrecked medical trials, the real price of bitcoin, Musk the Martian, and more
14. 12 MayStart Up No.1547: ‘dark pattern’ regulation?, IEA raises renewables forecast, DarkSide under scrutiny, Trump’s blog flops, and more
15. 11 MayStart Up No.1546: the ransomed pipeline, Apple hires ex-Facebook ad manager, Windows 10X is nixed, US ISPs astroturfing exposed, and more
16. 10 MayStart Up No.1545: Covid vs climate change, China used iPhone contest hack against Uyghurs, Clubhouse hits Android, and more
17. 7 MayStart Up No.1544: do AirTags really aid stalkers?, fixing Section 230, the heat pump hassle, Facebook blocks Signal ads, and more
18. 6 MayStart Up No.1543: Facebook Oversight indecision, Peleton recalls treadmills, Antarctic ice melt worsens, Dell security hole, and more
19. 5 MayStart Up No.1542: inside Basecamp’s Friday fallout, a subscription for life, monitoring blood bloodlessly, Trump starts blog, and more
20. 4 MayStart Up No.1541: Apple v Epic opens, Sweden’s failed Covid strategy, ripoff ads still plague Google, Trump’s Facebook day nears, and more
21. 3 MayStart Up No.1540: Apple’s antitrust cases double up, a geolocation tour de force, AirTag teardowns, Basecamp implodes, and more

April 2021

1. 30 AprStart Up No.1539: social networks’ free speech retreat, gig workers targeted in phone scam, iOS is Epic Games’s 5th biggest earner, and more
2. 29 AprStart Up No.1538: how Basecamp’s politics went out of control, Apple M2 “in production”, how to end India’s Covid plight, and more
3. 28 AprStart Up No.1537: are airplanes Covid-safe?, tracking the most powerful cosmic rays, bitcoin’s real users, Google’s contact mess, and more
4. 27 AprStart Up No.1536: Facebook and Apple at odds as iOS 14.5 released, petrol from the air?, publishers reject Google’s FLoC, and more
5. 26 AprStart Up No.1535: the Post Office programming scandal, Twitter geoblocks anti-Modi tweets, gravity batteries!, beat the bookies, and more
6. 23 AprStart Up No.1534: Facebook internal report lists election failures, Daily Mail sues Google, Wirecard’s cash bag runs, and more
7. 22 AprStart Up No.1533: ransomware leaks new Apple Macbook design, App Store hacks get worse, the influencer life, Signal bites back, and more
8. 21 AprStart Up No.1532: Bank of England considers a cryptocoin, Apple’s new iMacs and TV remote (and more), real-life Fargo, and more
9. 20 AprStart Up No.1531: Clubhouse’s value balloons as interest slows, how to fix online harassment, new crypto wastes disk space (not energy), and more
10. 19 AprStart Up No.1530: Facebook Dating gets cold shoulder, is your browser FLoCed?, Peloton v Apple, Greensill explained, and more
11. 16 AprStart Up No.1529: chip shortage to last to 2023?, Google Earth shows climate change, NFT sales go crazy, new iMacs next week?, and more
12. 15 AprStart Up No.1528: EU proposes AI regulation, the trouble with Twitter Trends, Covid’s “hygiene theatre”, suicides down (not up), and more
13. 14 AprStart Up No.1527: UK variant isn’t more deadly (phew), lessons from building Teslas, Clubhouse’s 1.3m user database scraped, and more
14. 13 AprStart Up No.1526: how Facebook slow-walked whistleblower complaints, the mistaken peat bog murderer, Microsoft buys Nuance, and more
15. 12 AprStart Up No.1525: Home Office plans encryption attack, India’s democratic decline, Facebook’s stony silence, the most 2021 thing ever, and more
16. 9 AprStart Up No.1524: Epic court papers sting App Store, Pfizer zaps Brazil’s P1 variant in study, YouTube Kids is ‘vapid wasteland’, and more
17. 8 AprStart Up No.1523: how Facebook’s data leaked out, Spotify buys ‘Clubhouse for sports’, Apple helps others find your stuff, and more
18. 7 AprStart Up No.1522: how India used to message with missed calls, Sweden v Covid: who won?, see if your Facebook data was hacked, and more
19. 6 AprStart Up No.1521: SCOTUS backs Google, LG’s phone biz is dead, Tim Cook hedges on App Store, Yahoo will have no more Answers, and more
20. 5 AprStart Up No.1520: a feminist future internet?, Ted Chiang on AI v capitalism, Facebook sees huge data leak, Waymo CEO goes, and more
21. 2 AprStart Up No.1519: Myanmar military cuts mobile internet, Biden to cut carbon from US power, 2025 internet forecast, warp drive flops, and more
22. 1 AprStart Up No.1518: Clegg defends Facebook’s algorithms, the Clubhouse party, WHO criticises China, bitcoin scam app nets $1m, and more

March 2021

1. 31 MarStart Up No.1517: home appliances hit by chip shortage, Spotify buys.. internet radio?, study shows vaccines stop Covid spread, and more
2. 30 MarStart Up No.1516: GPT-3 blurps billions of words daily, hackers try to backdoor PHP, the vanishing NFTs, Apple pushes urgent iOS updates, and more
3. 29 MarStart Up No.1515: speaking against Covid passports, life as a “cable guy”, the rise of fleeceware apps, the best use for NFTs, and more
4. 26 MarStart Up No.1514: Amazon’s toilet problem, Tesla’s bitcoin swizz, Medium pivots (yet) again, assess your news bubble, and more
5. 25 MarStart Up No.1513: Intel outlines future plans, Zuckerberg asks for Section 230 tweaks, why the Suez ship is a worst-case scenario, and more
6. 24 MarStart Up No.1512: the personal photo curator, US begins Caller ID for mobiles, the mystery of the feet, can the common cold slow Covid? and more
7. 23 MarStart Up No.1511: Google’s dead-end searches, lab leak theory redux, Iceland’s volcano up close, airlines mull vaccine ‘passports’, and more
8. 22 MarStart Up No.1510: Trump said to plan social network, car chip factory fire spells supply trouble, Johnson’s lockdown dithering, and more
9. 19 MarStart Up No.1509: Apple warns Chinese app makers, Johnson the clown king, Facebook’s AR plans, AZ vaccine can’t beat SA variant, and more
10. 18 MarStart Up No.1508: the bear case on Clubhouse, new iPad Pros incoming?, OnePlus shuns Wear OS, Intel snipes at Apple’s M1, and more
11. 17 MarStart Up No.1507: the FTC’s 2013 mistakes on Google, the turbine-less wind turbine, WHO says Covid started on farms, and more
12. 16 MarStart Up No.1506: Berners-Lee calls for nicer networks, Telegraph mulls PPC journalism, carmakers try to delay electric future, and more
13. 15 MarStart Up No.1505: the deepfake cheerleader mom, electric charging grows up, NFT auction mystery deepens, Adobe’s “Enhance” really does, and more
14. 12 MarStart Up No.1504: Apple sues former staffer over media leaks, Netflix to stop password sharing, Facebook’s AI problem, and more
15. 11 MarStart Up No.1503: US video cameras hacked, why athletes are breaking records, Parler blocked from App Store again, the Test & Trace waste, and more
16. 10 MarStart Up No.1502: Russia’s vaccine disinformation campaign, Biden gets antitrustful, Huawei slashes smartphone orders, empty Olympics?, and more
17. 9 MarStart Up No.1501: CDC says the vaccinated can mix indoors, MWC aims for June, the loss of the internet commons, encode a parachute!, and more
18. 8 MarStart Up No.1500: explaining Google’s cookie-free future, why Square bought Tidal, Microsoft Exchange users suffer huge hack, and more
19. 5 MarStart Up No.1499: Apple may face EU antitrust on Spotify, YouTube punts on Trump, how Test & Trace failed pubs and restaurants, and more
20. 4 MarStart Up No.1498: Google says it will stop ad tracking, the deepfake TikTok Tom Cruise, does vaccination cure long Covid?, and more
21. 3 MarStart Up No.1497: the surprising price of net zero, how Gab got hacked, deep learning produces weird nostalgia, is microdosing fake?, and more
22. 2 MarStart Up No.1496: how email brings us down, Twitter plans ‘Super Follows’, Apple Watch hits 100 million, and more
23. 1 MarStart Up No.1495: an mRNA vaccine for (mice with) malaria, phone boxes reach end of line, what odds on the UK rejoining the EU?, and more

February 2021

1. 26 FebStart Up No.1494: the new competition in social networks, Apple Fitness+ two months in, who’s spy(pixel)ing on you?, and more
2. 25 FebStart Up No.1493: the Mars Easter egg, the bitcoin key generator that leaked, scrap the F-35?, how music’s growth outpaced payments, and more
3. 24 FebStart Up No.1492: UK considers ‘vaccine passports’, what Uber’s court loss means, what will Clubhouse do to podcasts?, and more
4. 23 FebStart Up No.1491: how TikTok inspires creativity, Arizona’s bug-ridden prisons, Apple blocks new malware, living on an alien world, and more
5. 22 FebStart Up No.1490: how Zuckerberg helped right-wingers, Google fires another AI lead, the Texans facing giant electricity bills, and more
6. 19 FebStart Up No.1489: Facebook v Australia pt 2, Facebook’s ad lies, FBI charges North Korean hackers, Citibank’s $500m UI failure, and more
7. 18 FebStart Up No.1488: how Team Trump’s love of coal screwed Texas’s electricity, why Loon failed, Apple’s M1X spotted?, and more
8. 17 FebStart Up No.1487: Ericsson chief slams Europe on 5G, Bloomberg insists on Supermicro, Apple escapes Epic sideload bill, and more
9. 16 FebStart Up No.1486: GameStop saga prompts federal investigation, inside Facebook’s (non) Supreme Court, Nissan disses Apple, and more
10. 15 FebStart Up No.1485: what “accept cookies” really means, why surfaces don’t spread Covid, a Facebook smartwatch?, and more
11. 12 FebStart Up No.1484: Clubhouse’s uncancel culture, Steve Jobs’s keynote producer speaks, two masks better, why lockdown sceptics fail, and more
12. 11 FebStart Up No.1483: Facebook dials down the politics, is Clubhouse different?, how the Kent Covid variant emerged, and more
13. 10 FebStart Up No.1482: Huawei seeks US mercy, Israel’s Covid problem, how American cops block livestreams, how Covid kills coal, and more
14. 9 FebStart Up No.1481: Facebook to cull vaccine misinformation, Twitter mulls subscriptions, iOS to allow Spotify as default music stream, and more
15. 8 FebStart Up No.1480: why renewables will reshape world politics, how many scam apps are there?, the Democrats’ bad internet bill, and more
16. 5 FebStart Up No.1479: Twitter untouched by Trump’s absence, the price of abusing Chris Whitty, improving Fitness+, and more
17. 4 FebStart Up No.1478: how cyberattacks became commonplace, maybe Dunning-Kruger *is* real?, Spotify’s payment problem, and more
18. 3 FebStart Up No.1477: Bezos steps aside, more App Store scams, anti-Navalny synthetic fakes, IBM’s blockchain heads to zero, and more
19. 2 FebStart Up No.1476: might Dunning-Kruger be fake?, SolarWinds hack hits US court system, what LinkedIn is really good for, and more
20. 1 FebStart Up No.1475: how vengeful people ruin online reputations, the fake Huawei influencers, ransomware gang shuts down, and more

January 2021

1. 29 JanStart Up No.1474: Tim Cook knocks Facebook, Oversight Board rules (badly) on Myanmar, Guardian’s regex style guide, and more
2. 28 JanStart Up No.1473: r/wallstreetbet wins (and loses), Facebook hoes back, Unix v time, can Biden buy electric?, sudo’s big bug, and more
3. 27 JanStart Up No.1472: reddit v the hedge funds, will offices charge EVs?, Twitter buys newsletter company, iPhone timers lie!, and more
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5. 25 JanStart Up No.1470: how VAR has harmed soccer, VW’s stuttering efforts to catch Tesla, will Biden reshape US tech?, and more
6. 22 JanStart Up No.1469: farewell frictionless president, what’s Apple’s AR plan?, Intel re-hires retired CPU architects, goodbye 16:9 laptops, and more
7. 21 JanStart Up No.1468: QAnon baffled by Biden, AirPods Max one month in, Google and Apple zap Wimkin, FOAD Ajit Pai, and more
8. 20 JanStart Up No.1467: Brexit’s dawning reality, should Sandberg resign?, the Westminster Abbey railway, the bitcoin heaters, and more
9. 19 JanStart Up No.1466: the trouble with social media algorithms, happy at work?, the vaccine’s good news, the carbon capture conundrum, and more
10. 18 JanStart Up No.1465: WhatsApp delays data change, is there a social media fix?, Twitter to reboot POTUS account, new MacBook Pros?, and more
11. 15 JanStart Up No.1464: how Facebook’s numbers create radicals, the virtual CES, DuckDuckGo hits 100m per day, why herd immunity takes jabs, and more
12. 14 JanStart Up No.1463: Intel ditches its CEO, Qualcomm buys ex-Apple chip startup, Congress Covid infections show vaccine delay, and more
13. 13 JanStart Up No.1462: the bitcoin millionaires with no money, the “clean” CES, the trouble with scotch eggs, Uganda bans social media, and more
14. 12 JanStart Up No.1461: India’s digital goldrush, Sony gets drone-y, Parler hacked, Parler sues Amazon, why Twitter was right to zap Trump, and more
15. 11 JanStart Up No.1460: what the Trump ban means, the madness of the radicalised, why vaccination doesn’t prevent onward infection, and more
16. 8 JanStart Up No.1459: what’s Trump without big social media?, Boeing pays $2.5bn to settle 737 Max charge, Apple Car running slow, and more
17. 7 JanStart Up No.1458: London faces Covid ICU crisis, Facebook’s WhatsApp data grab, Apple’s long plan for the M1, do targeted ads work?, and more
18. 6 JanStart Up No.1457: Facebook’s Georgia ad problem, App Store app privacy examined, how police will interrogate your car, and more
19. 5 JanStart Up No.1456: 2020’s energy shifts, how ARM won the world, Singapore betrays Covid promises, kill those remote batteries!, and more
20. 4 JanStart Up No.1455: SolarWinds hack worse than thought, hedge fund prods Intel, is the Turing Test dead?, Xiaomi’s charger chat bites it, and more