Policy Soup stir the pot ALPHA

Update, here’s a chart! techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/h...

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 7(source)

Good work from apple where a bootleg version of the game I have never installed shows above the game itself when I search my phone. Top marks.

haha no don't be silly, my first dredds aren't in the case files because that would make me old

the UK needs a centre left party ʰᵉˡˡᵒ to provide a home for voters driven away from Labour ᶜᵃⁿ ᵃⁿʸᵒⁿᵉ ʰᵉᵃʳ ᵘˢ and that party clearly can’t be the toriesʷᵉ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ⁷² ᵐᵖˢ

The wrinkle here is that they may have been right in never shipping it. There are huge security implications to building this product and the general response has been “¯\_(ツ)_/¯ user beware”, which Google can’t really get away with

This is probably the right decision in planning for the future - AI automation is transparently not going to be about manipulating a virtual cursor and browser - but it’s not great that Google never managed to ship this when it was still cutting edge

Max Zeff

@mzeff.bsky.social

NEW: Google quietly shut down Project Mariner yesterday, the web-browsing AI agent it highlighted onstage last year at Google IO. I reported for WIRED, nearly 2 months ago, that Google had moved staffers off the Project Mariner team as it responded to OpenClaw-style agents.

@kevincollier.bsky.social

They’ve entirely replaced the 5G people

Kevin Collier

Question for my fellow tech/AI/etc reporters here: How often do you get "tips" from people clearly suffering from AI psychosis? Strangers reaching out to tell you they've uncovered something secret and special and technical through an AI. I've had several via Grok. Yesterday my first Gemini.

We should expect Apple to lead the industry on this front, but in fact, they’re far behind.

@gruber.foo surprised not to see a reference to this in your starred post about Meta’s similar failings daringfireball.net/2019/08/siri... would also add that the “lay off the whole team who blew the whistle” was Apple’s stance too

Siri, Privacy, and Trust

My answer depends on whether I’m on the list

Which are you thinking of?

i like the vibes but do feel that sparring with the regime in private and toadying in public is exactly the wrong way to go

Jim Pickard

@pickardje.bsky.social

Reeves responded angrily by telling Bessent she did not work for him and disliked how he had spoken to her.

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Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 4(source)

I flex everything all the time to the max interest free amount

ALT: a man is touching his face with his hands while smiling .

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Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 4(source)

still find it inordinately funny every time I put a sausage roll on a BNPL account

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 3(source)

[blithely] London

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Matthew Holehouse@matthewholehouse.bsky.socialMay 3(source)

The Green Party’s pivot from environmentalism to class politics in action: a demand to “prevent British holiday makers from being hit by jet fuel shortages”

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 3(source)

Eyyy

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 2(source)

You still have an appendix?

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madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.comMay 1(source)

I really thought there was gonna be something weird about the dog kennels. I really, really thought that

Priceratops

@rikkiprice.bsky.social