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People think I'm joking when I say that disinformation threatens democracy and sovereignty, and that this means that kinetic options should be on the table, even if ideally not used.

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 11/10/2026

This is a good write up of a tricky vulnerability. I spent lots of time working on USSD stuff with Android apps - it has always been ignored by Google. I guess because it isn't widely used in the US?

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 23h

YouTube straight up does not decide on spam (AI-generated content) reports for months, in blatant violation of the DSA. I have two spam reports from May and July which are still live and pending a decision. So many easy targets for enforcement but the Commission is focused on all the wrong things.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

YouTube search has gotten so bad that it's better to search for YouTube videos on Google Search 🙃

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

2024 election marked the end of a cycle of de-democratization by Modi's BJP. India’s opposition is back as a force to be reckoned with. Not just a reinvigorated party system but the creativity of social movements from below. Must read by the great political scientist Christoph Jaffrelot

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Censorship. Georgia’s Communications Commission bans two TV channels from using 93 words & phrases, inc “regime”, “political prisoners”, “prisoners of conscience”, “oligarch”, “repressive laws” and “judicial clan” jam-news.net/georgias-com...

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Georgia’s Communications Commission bans two TV channels from using 93 words and phrases

Transparency International says regulatory mechanisms are being used to punish and weaken critical media outlets.

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

25 days until the midterms:

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The streets will never forget.

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Once upon a time we used to treat writing code that hacks into other systems as a CFAA violation… Funny how things change.

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Alderik @alderik.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

“Meta began implementing a ban on ads and paid marketing messages from ByteDance on October 8. [..] The restriction applies in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam.” www.techinasia.com/news/meta-st...

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Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem

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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Companies typically will leave up (tho with lotsa restrictions) live killing depictions when they serve some broader human rights purpose like documenting atrocities, exposing government barbarity, etc., ... and typically take them down when they are for the purpose of glorifying the atrocity ...

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Will social media platforms allow Fort Hood shooter's execution to be livestreamed? Here's what their policies say.

The Pentagon's decision to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan could put the spotlight on whether social media companies will allow videos on their platforms.

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Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 09/10/2026

Dear friends who don't speak German: Go to YouTube ASAP, turn on subtitles → autogenerated translation and watch this video! TL;DR: #WSocial is posting legal names, nationalities and approx. birthdays of verified users as a public record on the Atmosphere. Confronted, they claim it's "by design" 🤯

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Ugh. OS vendors "highlighting" (even "supporting") news has been a disaster. Google Discover feed (left swipe on many Android home screens) is another repeat offender, constantly pushing low quality content, scams, propaganda etc. etc. An area understudied IMO. thehackernews.com/2026/04/ai-d...

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AI-Driven Pushpaganda Scam Exploits Google Discover to Spread Scareware and Ad Fraud

Pushpaganda exploits Google Discover using AI-generated content, driving scams and ad fraud globally, prompting Google to deploy a security fix.

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the reason I am SO salty about the awful news widget that Microsoft stuffed down everyone's throats in the early days of Windows 11 is that no matter how many time I tried, I couldn't get it to stop showing me GBNews stories and I don't want fascism on my screen

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 09/10/2026

Flock confirms it's cutting staff, as the company faces mounting backlash over its surveillance technology. When asked by TechCrunch, a Flock spokesperson wouldn't say if chief executive Garrett Langley took a pay cut as part of the workforce reduction. Bypass for ad-blockers: archive.is/epjKf

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Surveillance company Flock cuts staff as privacy backlash grows | TechCrunch

Flock would not say if CEO Garrett Langley would take a pay cut following the reduction in workforce.

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yesterday, the Washington Supreme Court closed one avenue for pixel litigation. The case centered on allegations that the hospital’s use of Meta Pixel for marketing purposes constituted the illegal interception of private communications. The Court concluded:

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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Typical hobby vibe coder behavior: get excited at interesting results, immediately foist that upon unsuspecting users before having tested anything at all - let the damn users do the testing !

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026

Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.

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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026

Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to 'The Social Network' attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless, writes WIRED's senior writer Miles Klee. 'The Social Reckoning' releases today in the US and the UK. buff.ly/Cz7M1sk

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‘The Social Reckoning’ Already Feels Irrelevant

Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to ‘The Social Network’ attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

I imagine crypto circles are a bit calmer these days now so many of its grifters have reinvented themselves as AI bros and defence bros?

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“This is much bigger than whether we’re paying to interpret someone’s words into four different accents. It’s about the illogical way the EU functions when it comes to things like this. And that is holding this continent back from reaching its true potential. davekeating.substack.com/p/is-montene...

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Is Montenegrin a language? We’re all about to pay to insist it is.

Podgorica wants Montenegrin, classified by linguists as a dialect of Serbo-Croatian, to become the EU’s 25th official language. It could open the floodgates for unnecessary translations.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 09/10/2026

I think it's wild that there's a growing number of powerful people whose sincere belief is that it's time to end the world. It's something we don't talk about or consider enough IMHO.

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BEUC - The Consumer Voice @beuc.eu · 09/10/2026

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐫? 📲 Thanks to the DMA, Google and Apple now allow you to wirelessly transfer your data from Android to iOS and vice versa when you switch devices. 👏 Competition works best when people can choose freely, without losing access to their digital lives.

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Sig. Ug. @sigug.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Remarkable that a senior Russian government official speaks openly about taking foreign hostages—Americans and Europeans—in order to exchange them for Russians who have been arrested on specific charges while operating abroad.

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I recall Tom Watson’s staff asking me for info/thoughts when Watson was challenging UK govt surveillance in the CJEU. How far Watson has fallen in my eyes. Money before principles.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Mission accomplished. Silicon Valley's favourite "reformer" shuts down CHT activities that forced tiny changes to his Big Tech funders (litigation) and keeps only those that get him into high status rooms. When an individual's vanity and an entire industry's strategy of predatory delay collide.

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The Prodigal Techbro

Prodigal tech bro stories skip straight from the past, when they were part of something that—surprise!—turned out to be bad, to the present, where they are now a moral authority on how to do good…

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You cannot be cruel to a large language model anymore then you can be mean to a brick

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

I guess at the time (2018) the EU powers that be might have actually meant this, but now those have succumbed to the awe of AI, the (far-)right and US pressure And don't let anyone tell you the GDPR was never meant to regulate AI, it most certainly was #loveGDPR www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm having de ja vu from when CEU tried to get around right wing Hungarian politics by hiring at least half Hungarians. The solution is the same. Microsoft should move its headquarters to Vienna. Or Vancouver if there's a highspeed rail connection to Seattle (IDK).

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US suspends Microsoft, Adobe from filing for green cards

The Trump administration cut off tech firms, including Microsoft and Adobe, from filing for green cards for their foreign workers.

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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Barbarism. Pure and undiluted. Europe cannot remain silence and pretend this falls within the “shared values”. If any other country did this, the EU would issue a public condemnation.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

For me the question is which, if any, European governments will take action to stop it, or to prosecute executives if they stream state-sponsored terrorist content in the EU? (The UK is already entirely supine to US Big Tech.) How will action match up to VDL's big SOTU speech (lol)?

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Remember the 2019 Christchurch Call, a call by Western govts and Big Tech to "end the ability to use social media to organise and promote terrorism and violent extremism"? It was a response to livestreamed mass-murder by a far-right loner. Which platforms will stream Hegseth's blood + circus?

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Konstantinos Komaitis PhD @kkomaitis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At some point during their growth, big tech companies reduced users to mere data points, believing they truly understood them. Perhaps that was their greatest misconception about user understanding—and the moment metrics became a core part of their mission. Check part V out: 👇👇👇👇

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

With one foot firmly planted in the Gulf of Mexico and the other in Lake Ontario, braced against a barrage of artillery fire, I sound my barbaric yawp, bellowing, “Artificial Intelligence!!!”

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two big bits of news today: You're not allowed to be mean to one of the main AIs anymore and also the president says you're not allowed to say AI anymore.

Trump on Truth Social: The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Notice the 'Made possible by Gemini' I know companies are increasingly realizing brand safety maybe doesn't matter all that much when the whole world is going to hell but surely this still has to cross some line

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can’t wait to be forcibly drugged in marriage after they remove no fault divorce

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

EU. “The digital industry’s lobby spending has grown from a 2023 spend of €113 million to €151 million annually today – an increase of 33.6 per cent in just two years.” “While 565 digital companies & associations influenced EU decision-makers two years ago ../2

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 08/10/2026

If "AI" is not materially improving final productivity in software it will probably struggle even more so in other knowledge work: Coding uniquely benefits from test frameworks that provide some automated assurance. Everywhere else a human brain must review and approve - and take the risk.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

The US now directly copying the playbook of the Communist Party of China which leaned on the government of Zambia to cancel digital freedom event #RightsCon earlier this year, just days before the conference. Authoritarian governments HATE anyone calling out what they do. So let's keep doing it.

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pathetic behaviour of those who withdrew, given the US admin campaigns such as supporting the far right in Europe www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... & ‘US directs embassies to team up against foreign ‘hostility’ – & use X to ‘counter anti-American propaganda’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US directs embassies to team up against foreign ‘hostility’ – and use X to ‘counter anti-American propaganda’

Cable signed by Marco Rubio and seen by Guardian suggests staff work with Pentagon psychological operations unit

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To get ahead of EU mandates and alleviate pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, the biggest cloud service providers started offering fee exemptions for customers looking to exit their cloud. It has had little practical effect on competition, argue Luke Hogg and Sophia Bulla.

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Cloud Needs More than Fee Waivers to be Competitive

Eliminating egress fees is benignly unproductive in the effort to improve competition in the cloud, write Luke Hogg and Sophia Bulla from FAI.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't like commenting on people's appearance but she seems like was plucked out directly from The Capitol from The Hunger Games She's a perfect fit for SCAMerica with the Trump Accounts she's promoting 🤮 No limits to how far these industry titans are willing to debase themselves I guess

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