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John Leonard

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Tech journo interested in technological evolution and the way tech is changing the world - and us. Searchable tfr Also #crapjokes #guitars #cycling #dogs […] [bridged from mastodon.social/@johnleonard on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

AI providers like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic don’t publish detailed energy‑use data for their models, viewing it as commercially sensitive operational information. Now the Sustainable AI Group (SAIG) has developed a way to help customers compare the energy use of closed models by comparing […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

What makes a country free? Here are my metrics: 1. To what extent does wealth, ethnicity distort the enforcement of laws and punishments for crimes. Can you send a rich criminal to prison? 2. To what extent does wealth, ethnicity distort the press and free expression? 3. Are you producing […]

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 13/08/2026

Good morning and happy Bindependence Day! If you're eligible to vote in the Clacton by-election, please make your vote COUNT today!

Count Binface, rampant, in front of the Palace of Westminster.

John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Long on vision, short on details and full of self- interest, the Meta founder's latest essay reads as a warning rather than a roadmap. If only Zuckerberg could speak human […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

AI promises so much, but one of the things it truly delivers is fraud at scale. Example: www.404media.co/company-offering-10…

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

So VERY reminiscent of “if you don’t test so much the number COVID cases won’t be so high!” #Trump “logic”. If the #Fed meets less often, reports of higher #inflation & a struggling #economy won’t be so abundant. #KevinWarsh Considers Reducing Frequency of Fed Policy Meetings The […]

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@cmconseils/1170163… Vibebirds

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Just days after OpenAI admitted that one of its advanced models had broken out of its sandbox to attack Hugging Face Anthropic came out with its own confession of accidental hacking. So, are they a warning bell or just a sophisticated PR exercises by companies looking to stay in the headlines […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

The Irish government has cancelled a planned procurement framework worth up to €1bn for Microsoft software and services after concerns were raised during the tender process […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

I wake up to #PicaTheCat hissing and spitting at the door to our porch. We are 8 floors up and there is a raccoon looking in at Pica and she's MAD. The raccoon didn't see me on the couch. But it wasn't that scared of Pica through the glass. It seemed curious about what might be in the apartment […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

As losses mount and local resistance to datacentres hardens, OpenAI's escalating infrastructure spend is putting ts finances, but also its social licence to build, under growing pressure […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

The European Union is legally compelling Google to open its ecosystem to competitors with changes to how it handles AI and search. www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/legis… […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

The UK government has launched three consultations examining how data protection rules affect international data transfers, AI and the re-use of public sector information […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at South Korea’s ambitious plan to provide free AI services to every citizen, Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model which it claims outperforms US LLMs, and TSMC’s bumper quarter […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

AWS is facing a lawsuit in the US alleging it misled the public about the water consumption and environmental impact of its datacentres in Northern Virginia. The legal complaint claims AWS overstated progress towards its water sustainability goals while failing to disclose the full extent of […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Open-weight AI models, many developed by Chinese companies, are quickly expanding their role in enterprise AI systems, according to new research […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

A group of employees has sued Meta, alleging the tech giant relied on AI-driven tools that unfairly selected workers with disabilities, medical conditions and approved leave for redundancy during its latest round of layoffs […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Long read. For a technology that's apparently poised for a commercial breakthrough, quantum computing research is still pursuing a surprising number of approaches to creating a scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computer […]

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 06/07/2026

Duolingo, are you ok?

A screen grab of a Duolingo exercise. The text reads “translate this sentence: My deer does not read the newspaper anymore”

John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Meta is developing plans to launch a cloud infrastructure business that would allow companies to rent AI computing power and access its AI models. www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/me… […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Whether a reported 5% of OpenAI is a potential gift to the American people, or Sam Altman trying to hedge against the AI infrastructure bubble collapsing, is a question more people should ask […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Privacy campaigners are pressuring the EU to begin dismantling its data transfer agreement with the US, arguing a recent US Supreme Court ruling undermines the pact’s legal foundations […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Amazon Web Services (AWS), said customers using its EC2 Capacity Blocks for Machine Learning service will face hourly price increases of around 20% from July. www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/aws-i… […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors is introducing post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into its products, prioritising devices aimed at automotive, industrial IoT and identity applications […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

DeepSeek has documented a new inference acceleration framework that it claims greatly increases the efficiency of how LLMs are run […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Organisations are becoming increasingly concerned about the rising cost of AI. With many projects yet to demonstrate a positive return on investment and expenses continuing to climb, IT leaders are looking for ways to optimise their spend […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Apple has substantially raised prices across multiple product lines in response to shortages of memory and storage. This has driven sharp increases in wholesale costs for DRAM and NAND memory - the so‑called “RAMpocalypse” […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son does not want to hear any faint-hearted negativity about AI. Such talk is “an insult”, he told shareholders. “I think it’s blasphemy against AI if you say it’s a bubble.” […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Office workers are spending way too much on AI too Gotta burn ’em all www.youtube.com/watch?v=9miTfCnyrpw… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260625-offic… - podcast time: 5 min 34 sec

Frazzled office worker walking the tightrope of wrong line going up while maintaining perfect Zoom face

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Did Musk ruin the market for the other scammers? Time will tell! #ElonMusk #StockMarket #AIBubble #NVIDIA #SpaceX futurism.com/space/tech-stocks-coll…

Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing

"Gravity strikes." The post Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing appeared first on Futurism.

John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

When ICANN updates the internet’s root cryptographic key this year it should be an invisible process for consumers, but IT teams must be prepared to take action […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

There are magical moths with wings like feathers. If you showed me this creature in another context I'd say "fake!" This is a "plume moth" from outside of Moscow. I don't know what this adaptation is about, maybe it's just to be etherial and make people think […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

A white insect rests in the grass. It's a moth, but each wing is made of four feather like spines. It's legs look like branches.

John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

Given that Meta is answerable to no one other than its shareholders, one might expect a low standard of environmental reporting from the company – especially given the way it has made very public its repudiation of all things the present US administration might regard as woke. One would be wrong […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Everything else aside, if the CEO of a major company (but still a tiny fraction of the size of the US government) was visibly spending half his time fretting about refurbishing the fountain in front of corporate headquarters, the stock would tank and the board would fire them.

John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

The UK’s long-term failure to develop a coherent technology strategy is no longer just a business problem - increasingly it’s a democratic one. That's the view of former ministers, open source advocates and policy experts at an roundtable event earlier this month […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Anthropic has suspended access to its latest models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, for all users after the US government demanded that non-US citizens, both in the US and abroad, should not be able to use the LLMs, citing national security concerns […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

CTO Mark Ridley watched in bemusement as Claude Code hacked its way into privileged database access, and shares how he’s stopped it happening again […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

In this week's roundup we look at how South Korea’s record-breaking data breach fine is threatening to become a geopolitical stand-off, India turning to self-driving tech to tackle its shocking accident statistics and TSMC’s worries about water supplies for its Taiwanese chip factories […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

Trump's contempt for non-subservient women is one of his most notable -- and contemptible -- traits. It's most obvious when he goes off on female journalists. He does this again and again to them, with almost zero pushback from their cowardly journalism peers […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

The UK should treat its information environment as a form of critical democratic infrastructure to help combat the growing threat of misinformation and AI-generated content […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

On dozens of occasions since 2019, monitoring stations have recorded simultaneous GPS interference across a vast area covering Europe, Canada and Greenland. The incidents - which typically last just a few seconds - appear to originate from a single source […]

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

They make money whether you win or lose. They get paid to hype products whether you benefit or not. The FTC has rules but doesn’t enforce. “We are the media now” but ethics are secondary. I spoke to Politico for this story ab undisclosed influencer partnerships. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds

The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.

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Elena Brescacin @elettrona.poliversity.it.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

I'm Italian, and today I feel urgent to scream: yesterday our Senate approved a law that prohibits sex education to kids in schools between 3 and 11 years old. Then, until 18, they need their family's consent for sex and relationships education programs. I write in English as I want people from […]

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John Leonard @johnleonard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

The European Commission has presented the European Technological Sovereignty Package, which aims to boost European performance in semiconductors, AI, cloud and open source […]

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