Daily Tech Digest - July 06, 2026
July 06, 2026 —
Rik Bon
Tags: tech, news, ai, linux, cloud, cybersecurity
TL;DR: 1. Leaving aside the ethics of it for a moment (which doesn't mean at all the considerations are minor) and the quality and operational problems Amazon presumably …; 2. Telegram given 15 days to curb piracy in India; 3. Long-read @guardian profile of one of the leading AI thinkers of our time, @IasonGabriel, whose seminal works on the ethics of thinking machines helped make me decide that—if were to leave novel-writing—I'd want to join @GoogleDeepMind. The article helps explain... 1) why
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- Leaving aside the ethics of it for a moment (which doesn't mean at all the considerations are minor) and the quality and operational problems Amazon presumably …
- Telegram given 15 days to curb piracy in India
- Long-read @guardian profile of one of the leading AI thinkers of our time, @IasonGabriel, whose seminal works on the ethics of thinking machines helped make me decide that—if were to leave novel-writing—I'd want to join @GoogleDeepMind. The article helps explain... 1) why
- The Guardian profiled Iason Gabriel from Google DeepMind today. I have cited Gabriel's work in several of my AI Ethics-related publications. …
- We recently led the Series A in EquiLibre Technologies! — EquiLibre operates at the intersection of AI and finance …
- SG robotics accelerator cohort sees $125m raise, exit
- Guardian long-read today on my friend @IasonGabriel and doing philosophy inside a frontier AI lab. Iason joined DeepMind in 2017 as, for a time, the only philosopher at one of these labs. I had started my postdoc at Apple at the same time and we spent years comparing notes — [image]
- Telegram gets 15-day notice from I&B Ministry to curb pirated films and copyrighted content
- Amazing that @threads is already 3 years old! While no social media platform is perfect, Threads has become my favorite place to connect with people, have thoughtful conversations, and share my work. Thanks so much for following along.
- Pirated Films, OTT Content Haunt Telegram As Centre Sends Takedown Notice
- TRUMP Memecoin 97% Crash Leaves Nearly 989,000 Investors With Losses
- this is wild. the first time I worked with CCB (Prof friend at Penn) we built tools to use mechanical turk for generating datasets for translation algos — the boto library had an incomplete implementation so I finished it and then we used it for his research at Johns Hopkins — bsky.app/profile/tech... …