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Stephen Fry is going to be shocked, shocked I tell you, when he finds out who Stephen Fry pals around with

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"Are there bees in my computer?" in Google search still gives the answer of previous RT, a 1 April 2021 post claiming that indeed there are.

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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

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It is very hard to accept, but it is no longer safe to move EU governments & societies to US clouds. Not only is it dangerous to do so, it is also likely flat out illegal in the near feature. We're trading convenience for utter dependence on a mad king. It should stop. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

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On the AI line in here, the big mistake is making future bets on (a) a single technology approach that (b) the government of an, at best, fast-follower technology producer cannot control esp when (c) those outcomes are unproven and (d) they are driven by corporate interests

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In case anyone wants the academic analysis of why Yvette Cooper’s ‘backdoor’ mandates are so awful, here’s the classic journal article. academic.oup.com/cybersecurit...

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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/22/g...

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This betrays a monumental ignorance regarding what AI is or does. It's also based on a random, throwaway comment by Sam Altman in an interview where he was babbling and sounded high on drugs. Great basis for policy. Jfc.

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In tomorrow's Observer, I looked at the case for social media bans for under-16s (and why they're still not the right policy to tackle the issue of kids and social media) www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

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Mandelson's still got shares in Global Counsel (I used to work there). GC has represented clients including Palantir, Shein, Uber and TikTok. (And others not in the public domain.) Someone needs to clarify exactly how the obvious conflict of interest arising from this position might be avoided.

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He nails it.

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So what does this mean for Google's E2E-at-rest? A) Not been sent technical capability notice B) Fighting it harder than Apple C) Quietly backdoored, possibly under threat of UK doing some adtech enforcement ?

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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We’ve been ringing the alarm about the dangers of repro data collection but it’s not just period trackers you should be concerned about. Uber/Lyft + other apps tracking geolocation data are also risky for abortion seekers. https://tinyurl.com/2p89nr74

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Delicate balance at half time, all 5 home teams 1 goal down. West Ham need only 10 or 11 more goals to improve their league position.

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🚨 APPLE WITHDRAWS ENCRYPTION TECH FROM UK 🚨 The Home Office’s actions have deprived millions of Britons from accessing a security feature. UK citizens will be at higher risk of their personal data and family photos falling into the hands of criminals and predators ‼️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Anyone near Burton on Trent, surprise treat in Brews of the World tonight 9pm is power rock trio Leap of Faith (Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Cream, etc.)

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🚨 SCOOP: Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill accepted £10,000 from firm that has helped wealthy Russians obtain 'golden visas' since the war in Ukraine Calls for Labour to investigate donation to Business sec Johnathan Reynolds' PPS New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-mp-...

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Far-right links and Putin praise: fears over £600m UK history theme park plan

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“Meta and X gave the green light to AI-generated ads that called for the gassing of immigrants in concentration camps and the burning of synagogues ahead of Germany’s federal elections on Feb. 23”

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Ooh la la, even the French extreme right are classier than their UK counterparts.

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You know what you should kick people out of a leftwing party for? Use of the term "virtue signalling".

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The hypocrisy, can't have the son of a former Hamas minister on TV but no qualms over Netanyahu with an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity or any of the other rabid genocide defenders on the Israeli side. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

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David Cameron and Theresa May must be so upset that eventually a Labour government managed to undermine encryption in the UK.

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Congratulations Yvette Cooper. The U.K. is now one of the least safe places to go online. www.theverge.com/news/617273/...

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Google has released a new AI tool that it says will give scientists 'superpowers' by assisting with literature searches and generating new hypotheses, but does it live up to the hype?

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I was complaining that the anticipation of a rugby match wasn't proper news and then the BBC moved on to a segment on the oldest horse in the country.

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We at the Internet Society are deeply disappointed that Apple has had to stop offering end-to-end encryption in the UK. The following can be attributed to Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society: 1/

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One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world just lost $1.4 billion (with a B) to a hack. This is 5x as much as the previous largest exchange hack in history.

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they blurred her face on the news, must be nice having some privacy in such a vulnerable moment eh?

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What the hell is it with UK Labour sycophants telling trans people we have to support their party, which is literally trying to kill us? No, we don't. Sort your party out so it's not trying to kill us.

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We shouldn't even have to write or read papers arguing against "welfare" of AI systems. But unfortunately papers like The Guardian write about the grifters' activity in this area and it needs to be debunked. Well done here.

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The Daily Mail has come out swinging against AI scraping and in defense of Britain's creative sector: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

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grok 2 vs grok 3

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An amazing #opensourceAI story: Perplexity AI took the DeepSeek R1 model and de-censored it. the-decoder.com/perplexity-a...

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Meanwhile, not only is Bannon doing a Nazi salute at CPAC (to raptorous applause), but Musk is waving a chainsaw on stage. Politics as a pro wrestling show, somewhere along a continuum from Caligula to Hitler. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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All—and i mean ALL—Democrats need to do is say "Republicans don't like Dolly Parton teaching kids how to read" and yet...here we wait

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So why is this worse than all of the internet sharing data with Google?

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NEW: Microsoft hosted around 150 explicit non-consensual images of startup founder Breeze Liu on its Azure servers. It took Microsoft eight months to remove the images, despite pleas piling up. The company just didn't respond to one NGO working with Liu Story with @peard33.bsky.social

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Finnish EPPGroup MEP, european parliament Foreign Affairs committee member and EPP EUDS coordinator Mika Aaltola: "The United States has given us three weeks to agree on terms for Ukraine's surrender. If we don't, the United States will withdraw from Europe." (original in Finnish) 1/2

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