Unfortunately, the current Companies House name rules – while covering copy-cats and offensive language – do not cover attempts to poison data inputs.
This is a problem, because dozens of websites, databases and other processors pull in details from Companies House – and not all of them are good at sanitising their data inputs, which can be poisoned simply with a name.
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; DROP TABLE “COMPANIES”;– LTD
company-information.service.gov.ukThe DOOM Effect
sharewareheroes.com
Free chapter from the eBook Shareware Heroes. Plus the website is amazing.
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
maggieappleton.com
Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages
izzy.co
Like I said, it [the group chat] is a sacred construct. A lifeline to your best friends, an outlet for the thoughts and questions and breadcrumbs of internet humor that you just can’t send to anyone else. A constant companion, antagonist, distraction, delight.
So of course, I decided to replace mine with AI.
ASCII art by chatbot
aiweirdness.com
Big Tech's big downgrade
businessinsider.comIn Silicon Valley, the user’s experience has become subordinate to the company’s stock price. Google, Amazon, Meta, and other tech companies have monetized confusion, constantly testing how much they can interfere with and manipulate users. And instead of trying to meaningfully innovate and improve the useful services they provide, these companies have instead chased short-term fads or attempted to totally overhaul their businesses in a desperate attempt to win the favor of Wall Street investors.
3dfx's Unreleased Voodoo5 6000 Quad-GPU Card
youtube.comThis review looks at the unreleased 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 video card — except it was hand-made by an enthusiast who specializes in retro hardware resurrections. It’s a quad-GPU monster that competed with the likes of NVIDIA back in the day. This piece looks at the history of 3dfx, spanning the late 90s to early 2000s, and tells the story of the company’s rapid, fiery rise and collapse.
The Best Programming Language You Haven't Heard Of (It Will Surprise You!)
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the html review
thehtml.reviewAnnual collection of html curiosities.
Physics of How A Bicycle Works
ciechanow.skiIn this article, I’ll focus on the delicate interplay between many of the forces that act on a bicycle and its parts when riding. We’ll witness how forces applied through tires make a bicycle accelerate, brake, and turn, and we’ll also investigate how the wheels and the frame handle those different forces without breaking.
The Future is a Dead Mall — Decentraland and the Metaverse
youtube.comBeatBot — AI generated beats
beatbot.fmWeb browsers over the last 28 years
youtube.comGlaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry
glaze.cs.uchicago.eduOur tool adds very small changes to Karla’s original artwork before it is posted online. These changes are barely visible to the human eye, meaning that the artwork still appears nearly identical to the original, while still preventing AI models from copying Karla’s style. We refer to these added changes as a “style cloak” and changed artwork as “cloaked artwork.”