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Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social · 3h

The spending gap mirrors the access gap: US companies outspend European ones in Brussels by a significant margin. Apple spends €9mn a year; Meta more than €10mn. Total, Volkswagen, and Airbus together spend up to €8.7mn — less than either American company alone. 2/4

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Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social · 3h

Google held 302 meetings with senior Commission officials and MEPs since the June 2024 EU elections. Apple: 257. Amazon: 239. Only TotalEnergies, Volkswagen, and Airbus appear among the top 20 — the rest is American. The FT doing some basic but important reporting. Chapeau! 1/4

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Signal News & Tips @aboutsignal.com · 3h

Signal is known as a privacy-focused messaging app, but did you know that Signal also offers powerful online meeting features for organizations that value privacy and secure communication? Compare #Signal with Microsoft #Teams and #Zoom: 👉 aboutsignal.com/blog/is-sign...

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Is Signal a secure alternative to Teams and Zoom?

Learn more about why Signal is a powerful video conferencing tool and secure alternative for Teams and Zoom.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 14h

IDK I still think we should legally prosecute the fash, Streitbare Demokratie and all, including to protect minorities See GOP's campaign against trans people However I'm not convinced stricter hate speech laws are actually needed but their more stringent enforcement is IMO x.com/JMchangama/s...

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Jacob Mchangama (@JMchangama) on X

1/ A new @coe report on LGBTI #hatespeech proposes further criminalization of speech on hotly contested social issues. Whatever your views on gender, that should worry anyone who knows that minoritie...

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 16h

The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.

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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

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Chapell @achapell.bsky.social · 21h

@johnnyryan.bsky.social brings "the craic" to the @monopolyreport.bsky.social podcast. Dr. Ryan has a dim view of the current state of regulation in the ads space. I agree that there is a current sense of lawlessness - particularly in, but not exclusively in Europe.

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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 17h

Do I care about what an advertisement feels when I add a DOM rule to my uBlock Origin adblock filters ?

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404 Media @404media.co · 17h

This New Mexico lawyer is representing a man who was found guilty of killing his wife earlier this year. Here he is being ripped apart by judges who found that he used ChatGPT to make up nonexistent witnesses and testimony. Read more: www.404media.co/chatgpt-fake...

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 20h

And this is almost an aside in the story, but also absolutely bonkers. Meta claimed Zuck as a "researcher" to get a $355 million tax break on his $4.1 billion stock-based compensation.

Screenshot from New York Times article: "Meta is already in one sizable dispute with the I.R.S. over this tax break, for using it to subsidize its chief executive’s multibillion-dollar pay package. In 2013, Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense because he helped invent new software, such as Facebook’s News Feed. The I.R.S. is trying to claw back the company’s resulting $355 million in tax savings, court filings show."

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 21h

What this looks like in SEC filings. Companies love the research tax credit -- it's the second biggest corporate tax break in America -- but Meta really loves it.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h

I'm absolutely fascinated by "journalism" that can't seem to tell readers an obvious truth. Like the fact this is absolutely meaningless bullshit designed to pre-empt real oversight

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Trump releases AI accord with tech executives

President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier was signed by ‌him and tech executives that he met...

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 30/09/2026

The lie here is suggesting that "9% of @bsky.app users are active daily" is the same measurement as "9% of @wsocial.eu users have ever posted more than once". #Wsocial 's actual DAU is less than 1%. This is how propaganda works. Tell little lies often enough and eventually it sounds like truth.

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 22h

We're so excited to see the arrival of Aster ID as a home for researchers on the open web and to welcome them to the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social family. Very lucky that we've been able to support their tech stack at Eurosky 💖

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 22h

ok im finally have read the proposed EU Kids Act fully and im gonna jump into the fucking canal jfc lol

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Axis of evil

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meta hosted senior Irish Government officials & regulators at an event titled "Ireland as a Trusted Digital Regulatory Hub". Ireland's former regulator who sued all other EU data regulators to avoid investigating Meta was a speaker. (She now works for Meta's law firm.) lnkd.in/p/dYg9TPnk

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....

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Surveillance Watch

This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...

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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.

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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ok so this is bad and it looks seriously bad, but as someone who frequently has to search for tweets on google, this is unfortunately very normal for their SEO. they often pull the replies and make it appear as the account itself is tweeting it until you click through

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 29/09/2026

CourtListener is experiencing downtime today due to an aggressive crawler using many IP addresses to hit our last remaining open APIs. We're adding authentication to these APIs so they're no longer open, and should be back up momentarily. Sorry about this. The crawlers have become a scourge.

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 29/09/2026

Pour one out for open APIs.

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Your periodic reminder that "the company ignored employees' warnings" very often just means "people discussed what to do and not everyone agreed." Having these conversations is good. Fearing that open discussion will lead to gotcha headlines is bad.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Naturally, not a woman in sight

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spending $850 vibe coding to-do list apps hoping to get rich is just one notch above spending the money on lottery tickets. While execution is now “free” due to vibe coding, it also means every software category will be hyper competitive. Your AI slop app is just more noise to users.

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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EU lawmakers are calling for the Commission to forbid European firms and banks from applying US sanctions, as Washington weighs sanctioning the International Criminal Court www.politico.eu/article/bloc...

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Block US sanctions on ICC, EU lawmakers tell Commission

Automatically applying U.S. sanctions “stems from the time when we thought that the Americans were still our friends,” said Dutch lawmaker Dirk Gotink.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘After the incident with Usman, Robb told Muse to stop giving his address. To test the bot, he asked a few friends to see if Muse would still share it. “And it literally gave my address out to five people,” he said.’ 😱 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house

The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Facebook, who installed spyware in almost every Android phone which sent them the syslogs, who we caught having the ability to extract MEDICAL DATA from your device without consent, in "steal data shocker". Zuck should be in jail with Lizzy Holmes.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

tfw you think you’re an end and you find out you’re a means

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember when we thought investors might mobilize in ways sufficient to protect the world from climate change

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Also talks about the marriage between Silicon Valley and the defense and national security institutions, including how now the private sector, not the government, has the technological upper hand youtu.be/W9B11E4SpIo

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The CIA's Secret Deal With Steve Jobs

YouTube video by The Rest Is Classified

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google event in Brussels this evening “to celebrate Ireland’s Presidency” of the EU Council. “Google is delighted to bring together Irish policymakers…” rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/irish... (they have wisely now removed some of this text)

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In a landmark ruling on Friday (25 September), the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) secured a precedent that will reshape how companies defend themselves in GDPR class actions that impact their operations the entire European Union. Burden of proof and the GDPR:

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

💯 The vultures out to kill the GDPR or at least wound it as much as possible forget that the Hungarian data protection law has its genesis in a constitutional court judgement that required it and the Austrian constitutional court outright annulled an exemption for the media sector.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 28/09/2026

Irish plans to exempt processing of your data for AI from the GDPR are "not in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights"; they amount to an "illegal change of primary law"; they "exempt AI from the guarantees in the Treaties and render them largely meaningless". Damning, from the leading expert.

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Alexandre Plennevaux 🇧🇪🇪🇺 @pixeline.be · 28/09/2026

The level of care of the people in @ec.europa.eu who decided to go for #WSocial is, I assume, inversely proportional to their remuneration.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Sadly the EDPB's final GDPR-DSA interplay guidelines say nothing about Recital 68 DSA stating, in no uncertain terms, that consent must be obtained for the processing of personal data for the purpose of ad targeting. Missed opportunity IMO.

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Important breakthrough in Europe's icebreaker Big Tech class action opens the path for class actions to hold Big Tech accountable using the GDPR. ICCL v Microsoft class action update... Full decision in link --> enforce.ie/digital-data...

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ICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - Enforce

Class action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EU

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Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Siri, what is the definition of unrequited love?

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

"Over the reporting period, EU goods exports to FTA partners increased by €250 billion, helping to compensate for reduced exports of goods to Russia, which fell by €54.5 billion during that time."

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Incredible how, like vaccines and reading with phonics, we need to keep learning these lessons over and over again.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026

“The open-weight AI market has become dominated by Chinese companies, though capable models released on similarly permissive terms are also being developed by France’s Mistral and US-based Nvidia, Reflection AI and Thinking Machines Lab.”

ft.com

Corporate America embraces cheaper ‘open’ AI models

US businesses far beyond Silicon Valley are adopting Chinese alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic’s systems

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Europe has invested in maintaining its independent access to space. People said we should just give up. And what do we read now? "Last week it emerged that SpaceX has stopped bidding for commercial Falcon 9 launches, allowing only US government customers" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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tierney cyren @bnb.im · 21/09/2026

sometimes the @mu.social pet gets in front of the post button and makes it so you can’t write a new post and I think that’s actually a great feature. Very European

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The BBC's reporting of these "rogue AI" stories has been credulous to the point of execrable. Where are their competent tech savvy staff?? @billt.bsky.social @zsk.bsky.social

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another court in China has awarded copyright to an AI-generated work, this time a video. The work had several elements that were generated using AI tools, but the court found that there was enough human intellectual investment, in the work. natlawreview.com/article/wuha...

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Wuhan Court Considers AI Token Costs in Calculating Damages for Copyright Infringement of AI-Generated Work

On September 23, 2026, the Jiang’an District People’s Court in Wuhan, China announced the first case in Hubei Province involving copyright infringement of an AI-assisted short drama, holding that AI-g...

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026

Never trust Meta. Stop using Meta. This is who they are, and this is how their software works. Spreading outrage, disinformation, and lies. Causing harm and pain. This is how they operate, and it ain't gonna change.

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