{"id":8437,"date":"2022-12-27T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T11:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/four-stories-that-sum-up-the-state-of-tech-in-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T11:40:18","slug":"four-stories-that-sum-up-the-state-of-tech-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/four-stories-that-sum-up-the-state-of-tech-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Four stories that sum up the state of tech in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crypto self-destructed (twice) and Twitter got a new, CEO-shaped main character\u2013 but what else happened this year?<\/p>\n

Happy Betwixtmas to those who celebrate, and mournful \u201csorry everything fun is shut\u201d to those who don\u2019t. Me? I\u2019m thankful for the one week of the year where tech news stops \u2013 or at least, slows down. (This is written in advance and I\u2019ve got a lot riding on that sentence still being true by the time you read it).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been an odd year. Even by the standards of the sector, it was just extraordinarily silly. Crypto collapsed in the dumbest possible way, twice. Elon Musk bought his way into being the main character of Twitter, for good. AI seems just on the precipice of doing away with the Ucas personal statement. Nothing is normal.<\/p>\n

Standing for \u201cdecentralised autonomous organisation\u201d, a DAO isn\u2019t really in the same class as an NFT. Rather than being a singular digital asset, like a picture of a monkey or a dog-themed copy of a dog-themed copy of bitcoin, a DAO is more like a company \u2013 but one which is directly controlled by its shareholders, without the need for employees or directors.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Although, we should note, a DAO is Not A Company and owners of DAOs are Not Shareholders, because if it were and they were, the whole thing would be wildly illegal. Glad we\u2019ve cleared that up.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Given what we know and expect from Russia, it\u2019s unlikely to come as a shock that \u2013 according to data from Checkpoint Research \u2013 in the first three days of combat, cyber-attacks on Ukraine\u2019s government and military sector went up by 196%, compared to the rest of February.<\/em><\/p>\n

But what has been interesting to watch has been the fightback, with attacks on Russia up 4% for the week. It might not sound like much, but there has been noticeable pushback from white hat hackers, hactivist groups and others on the counterattack.<\/em><\/p>\n

What happened was unexpected. Upon proving that I was the real Alex Hern, I was greeted with a wall of glee. One user spammed the phrase \u201cYOUNG_HERN_IN_THE_HOUSE\u201d, another posted \u201cITS_FUCKING_ALEX\u201d. \u201cALEX NEXT ELON\u201d, \u201cALEX SAVE OUR BAGS\u201d\u2026 before I could even post my first real message, someone had sent \u201cALEX TYPING\u201d <\/em>15 times. Where my first appearance had felt like a parent breaking up an illicit house party, this felt more like the second coming, with me unwillingly cast in the role of Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n

Things got worse when I said I wanted to speak to people for a story about it. No matter how explicit I was that I thought the entire thing was dumb as hell \u2013 dumber than I thought was possible for an already extremely-dumb sector \u2013 news of a forthcoming article spread like wildfire. \u201cAll publicity is good publicity,\u201d was spammed into the channel, with one user pointing out that Shiba Inu, a shitcoin worth an inexplicable $7bn, had had a very similar genesis, with the majority of its early press simply mocking it as a low-effort clone of the original shitcoin, Dogecoin.<\/em><\/p>\n

[Elizabeth Lagone],<\/em> the head of health and wellbeing policy at Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s company was taken through a selection of the Instagram posts the teenager had viewed in the six months before her death \u2013 deeming many of them to be \u201csafe\u201d for children to view. It was not an opinion shared by many in the room at <\/em>north London coroner\u2019s court.<\/em><\/p>\n

Molly, from north<\/em>-west London, died in 2017 after viewing extensive amounts of online content related to suicide, depression, self-harm and anxiety. In what the NSPCC described as a global first, the senior coroner said social media had contributed to Molly\u2019s death, ruling that that Molly had died from \u201can act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nCrypto self-destructed (twice) and Twitter got a new, CEO-shaped main character\u2013 but what else happened this year?
\nHappy Betwixtmas to those who celebrate, and mournful \u201csorry everything fun is shut\u201d to those who don\u2019t. Me? I\u2019m thankful for the one week of the year where tech news stops \u2013 or at least, slows down. (This is written in advance and I\u2019ve got a lot riding on that sentence still being true by the time you read it).
\nIt\u2019s been an odd year. Even by the standards of the sector, it was just extraordinarily silly. Crypto collapsed in the dumbest possible way, twice. Elon Musk bought his way into being the main character of Twitter, for good. AI seems just on the precipice of doing away with the Ucas personal statement. Nothing is normal.
\nStanding for \u201cdecentralised autonomous organisation\u201d, a DAO isn\u2019t really in the same class as an NFT. Rather than being a singular digital asset, like a picture of a monkey or a dog-themed copy of a dog-themed copy of bitcoin, a DAO is more like a company \u2013 but one which is directly controlled by its shareholders, without the need for employees or directors.
\n(Although, we should note, a DAO is Not A Company and owners of DAOs are Not Shareholders, because if it were and they were, the whole thing would be wildly illegal. Glad we\u2019ve cleared that up.)
\nGiven what we know and expect from Russia, it\u2019s unlikely to come as a shock that \u2013 according to data from Checkpoint Research \u2013 in the first three days of combat, cyber-attacks on Ukraine\u2019s government and military sector went up by 196%, compared to the rest of February.
\nBut what has been interesting to watch has been the fightback, with attacks on Russia up 4% for the week. It might not sound like much, but there has been noticeable pushback from white hat hackers, hactivist groups and others on the counterattack.
\nWhat happened was unexpected. Upon proving that I was the real Alex Hern, I was greeted with a wall of glee. One user spammed the phrase \u201cYOUNG_HERN_IN_THE_HOUSE\u201d, another posted \u201cITS_FUCKING_ALEX\u201d. \u201cALEX NEXT ELON\u201d, \u201cALEX SAVE OUR BAGS\u201d\u2026 before I could even post my first real message, someone had sent \u201cALEX TYPING\u201d 15 times. Where my first appearance had felt like a parent breaking up an illicit house party, this felt more like the second coming, with me unwillingly cast in the role of Jesus.
\nThings got worse when I said I wanted to speak to people for a story about it. No matter how explicit I was that I thought the entire thing was dumb as hell \u2013 dumber than I thought was possible for an already extremely-dumb sector \u2013 news of a forthcoming article spread like wildfire. \u201cAll publicity is good publicity,\u201d was spammed into the channel, with one user pointing out that Shiba Inu, a shitcoin worth an inexplicable $7bn, had had a very similar genesis, with the majority of its early press simply mocking it as a low-effort clone of the original shitcoin, Dogecoin.
\n[Elizabeth Lagone], the head of health and wellbeing policy at Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s company was taken through a selection of the Instagram posts the teenager had viewed in the six months before her death \u2013 deeming many of them to be \u201csafe\u201d for children to view. It was not an opinion shared by many in the room at north London coroner\u2019s court.
\nMolly, from north-west London, died in 2017 after viewing extensive amounts of online content related to suicide, depression, self-harm and anxiety. In what the NSPCC described as a global first, the senior coroner said social media had contributed to Molly\u2019s death, ruling that that Molly had died from \u201can act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crypto self-destructed (twice) and Twitter got a new, CEO-shaped main character\u2013 but what else happened this year? Happy Betwixtmas to those who celebrate, and mournful \u201csorry everything fun is shut\u201d to those who don\u2019t. Me? I\u2019m thankful for the one week of the year where tech news stops \u2013 or at least, slows down. (This …<\/p>\n

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