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Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show

As regulators pressure Meta to verify the identity of advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them. A Reuters investigation examines its tactics...

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As i revise my year old piece on UK AI governance , our fond belief pouring money into the AISI could create a lucrative global assurance role for the UK looks ever more naive www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review

U.K. leaders are calling for a shared set of global principles, even as the White House seeks first access to new models for testing.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.

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Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Traditional media is losing power — even though they do super professional and deeply dedicated work to ensure the information they make available to the public is fact-checked and verified … We value it immensely, and we want society to trust [media] again …”

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rio's military police have started the Butlerian Jihad

A Rio de Janeiro Military Police man points his rifle at computers. #DrugBust

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/10/2026

More than 20 NHS trusts in England have stopped using Palantir’s waiting list tools, according to FT analysis that casts doubt on widely cited claims about the success of the controversial data project led by the US software giant. as.ft.com/r/6c8844ae-e...

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Over 20 NHS trusts have ditched Palantir waiting-list tools, analysis shows

FT findings prompt fresh probe by statistics regulator into health service claims over controversial data project

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Excellent thread on the illusion, hubris and negligence behind the non existent Edinburgh University financial crisis. This reminds me so much of Nottingham, and Dundee. Why can uni VCs get away with acts that would get company CEOs sacked?

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NEW: Trust in scientists in the UK is closely shaped by people’s values, identity and politics, showing some of the same patterns of division over science that have emerged in the US. Our study with @senseaboutsci.bsky.social, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social, shows the key dividing lines 🧵 ⬇️

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Polarised trust in scientists driven by values, identity and politics, major study finds | King's College London

Climate researchers face the widest political divide of any field

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Europol @europol.europa.eu · 08/09/2026

Privacy-enhancing technologies can help protect data, but they can also be weaponised. 📖 A new study by the EU Policy Lab at the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Europol examines how emerging PETs could help or hinder future investigations. Read more: 🔗 ow.ly/sFoK50ZKp9V

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very happy to have in our! trembling hands the hard copy of Law, Policy and the Internet 2nd edn( Hart/Bloomsbury), just out in the nick of time for first semester 2026/7! Order or inspection copies at share.google/RCRm2lmLQNAb... & do note a guide to teaching sample "tech law" course with it!

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Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘The Met wanted to go on to sign a wider contract worth up to £50mn over up to two years with Palantir. However, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime blocked the award, criticising the lack of a competitive procurement process and saying it was not clear the deal represented value for money.’

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...

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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help

404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Unlike Australia's ban, John Matheson writes, Canada's Safe Social Media Act asks a different question: not whether to keep children off social media, but whether platforms can be built to deserve them.

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Canada Is Not Banning Teenagers from Social Media — It’s Trying Something New

John Matheson says Canada's approach shifts the question from whether to keep kids off social media to whether social media can be built to deserve them.

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NPR @npr.org · 03/09/2026

At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom. n.pr/3T6gEma

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Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92

At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Regulators aren't treating AI as an exotic category outside privacy law, write Isabel Hahn and Aaron Alva. They're identifying where familiar principles get harder to operationalize as systems infer, remember, and act.

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Privacy by Architecture Makes AI Compliance Work

Unlike the internet ad economy, where privacy and profit have often been in tension, AI presents an opportunity to align them, say Isabel Hahn & Aaron Alva.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

EU tech law EU Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox as having additional obligations under the Digital Services Act ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Illiberal democracy" in the real world: "Well over €100bn in public funds, including billions of euros of EU money, is believed to have been siphoned off during the Orbán years." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on the new Hungary: de-Orbánising at pace | Editorial

Editorial: As a Brussels deadline looms with over €10bn at stake, Péter Magyar’s first three months have been transformative in addressing a corrupt legacy

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Ian Wiggett @wiggett-ie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

OpenAI staff observed signs of rogue behaviour among its leading-edge AI agents weeks before they escaped their training environment to launch an unprecedented hacking crusade that spread global alarm

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OpenAI staff observed warning signs before AI agent hacking crusade caused global alarm

Firm says ‘early signals … could have triggered an earlier response’ as it releases report into Hugging Face hack

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 27/08/2026

🎓 MIT tells universities to stop relying on AI detectors Its new report says detectors misread non-native English speakers and neurodivergent students. 🔗 aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/#31-a... #AI #HigherEducation #CriticalAI 🧪

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The French Constitutional Council just found that the social media ban for under 15s connecting from France does not meet the constitutional requirements in terms of fundamental right preservation. www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/decision/202...

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Décision n° 2026-911 DC du 14 août 2026

Loi visant à protéger les mineurs des risques auxquels les expose l’utilisation des réseaux sociaux

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026

“In the past few years Microsoft has filed a patent to record body language and expressions in meetings, while Amazon has filed one to track emotions via voice and Nvidia to infer emotions from audio data.”

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Smile, you’re on camera: when the boss wants to read your mood

Patent records show how many companies are interested in trying to record how people feel

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 29/07/2026

Here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Glen Hansard. We met in Ireland many years ago and he was always nothing but a great musician, a good friend and a generous and gracious man. Always positive, smiling and ready to sing. God bless him and his loved ones. Bruce

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Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Such sad news. A truly wonderful artist.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just terrible news!! Brilliant, beloved Glen Hansard was killed in a motorcycle accident. Do listen to his beautiful - 'Falling Slowly ' youtu.be/xMKFL9C38xg

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Glen Hansard - Falling Slowly @ SPACE, Evanston 3/31/26

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 31/07/2026

Large crowds busked yesterday evening in Dublin in honor of Glen Hansard 🙏🏻🎶 RIP via conorpope on IG

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Amy Borrett @amyborrett.ft.com · 10/07/2026

🚨NHS hospitals have admitted to a litany of errors in the data behind a headline claim about the success of the controversial £330mn Palantir contract after a @financialtimes.com investigation found dozens of irregularities. Scoop w/ @laurahughesft.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/7ab92d75-3...

Line chart of the total additional days in hospital due to delayed discharge, patients with length of stay of 7+ days, showing NHS hospitals admit to errors in data used to justify Palantir contract

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Damn. I was looking for Micah Richards.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 29/07/2026

This is Ozzy. His human made a lovely gallery wall just for him. Appreciates the gesture, but is a little preoccupied with trying to jailbreak this tennis ball. 13/10 (IG: ozzythelabmix)

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/07/2026

The U.S. FTC has sued Hims & Hers, which prescribes for sexual wellness and mental health conditions, alleging the company shared customers' sensitive medical data with advertising giants Meta and Snap through hidden website pixels. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260730...

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FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patients' medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap | TechCrunch

The U.S. federal consumer watchdog said Hims & Hers, which prescribes for sexual wellness and mental health conditions, used website trackers to share customers' information with advertisers.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 26/07/2026

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions, writes Carmody Grey. ft.trib.al/NmLmVIx

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That guy @stuartbayens.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A federal judge has approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about US$3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

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Judge approves a US$1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay authors about US$3,000 per book.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · 14/07/2026

🔴 AI is being adopted across the justice system faster than its impact can be fully understood. Our latest research finds that AI is being widely used across the justice system, despite limited evidence that it improves people’s experiences, outcomes or access to justice.

AI is being rapidly adopted across the UK justice system.

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it improves people’s experiences, outcomes or access to justice.

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

1/ Our new paper @bmj.com led by Amrit Kaur Purba argues that effects of adolescent social media restrictions are not simple and must be considered within social, technological, commercial, and political contexts. www.bmj.com/content/394/...

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wayne Rooney to be new BBC commentator for Eurovision. #VoteBinface

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