The government talk a good game, but existing laws like the Online Safety Act disproportionately affect small, independent and community-run websites while big companies like Meta just hire a few more lawyers and carry on with business as normal.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/27/starmer-vows-to-fight-social-media-firms-to-protect-children-from-addiction

Universities: "we've shut down four degree courses in order to build an AI Research Centre because we think AI is the future, but still don't use AI to write your essay because that's very naughty, but also professors are so overworked they really don't give a fuck so whatever"

Wikipedia meanwhile: "get the fuck out of here with that shit"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

The great thing about 800-word thinkpieces is they remain true even when the data that gave birth to them turns out to be false.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwjxx5eyn1o

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/116295860536457673

AI integration will continue until morale improves.

Meta have just canned the metaverse nonsense which they spent $80 billion on.

For context, wiping out extreme monetary poverty (i.e. living on less than $3 per day) by 2030 would cost $70 billion a year.

I swear, please, if you are writing about Apple's new age verification stuff in iOS, please do not say that it is there to comply with the #OnlineSafetyAct.

The OSA applies to user-to-user and search services. iOS isn't a service that comes within the remit of the OSA, nor are (as far as I can tell) pretty much anything an Apple account is used for.

They may be trying to pre-emptively comply with other laws (such as California's AB-1043), but the OSA does not require OS-level age verification.