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Top of the IT and Indo at the moment is a story which gives a rare public acknowledgement of the Gardai's use of phone cracking tech from the Israeli firm Cellebrite. Despite the positive result here, both the tech and the company are deeply problematic. (1/3) www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

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🎉 No Other Land Wins the Oscar for Best Documentary! 🎉 Congratulations to +972 Magazine’s very own reporter, Yuval Abraham, and long-time contributor, Basel Adra, on winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for their powerful film, No Other Land. #NoOtherLand #Oscars2025

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For Trump and co, the most important person in the audience for the Zelensky ambush was Putin.

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FAZ has a long interview with chancellor-in-waiting Merz on his domestic & foreign policy agenda. Number of times "China" gets mentioned: zero. Totally crowded out by US rift with EU. Maddening degree of oblivion not least since 🇨🇳 poses the core challenge to 🇩🇪 industry. t.co/sJ1HxjBn6r

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Last week I argued for immediate EU membership for Ukraine substack.com/home/post/p-.... Today that is even more urgent. This is not about whether Ukraine has correctly implemented the EU Directive banning plastic straws. It is about war and peace and about the survival of the Union.

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The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.

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An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, due to meet Trump on St Patrick's Day, is due to be interviewed on The Late Late Show. Not the most combative environment, but it should be interesting nevertheless...

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Europe needs to get real, and fast, about where it stands with the United States. Ukraine can't wait.

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In recent decades, many of us in the media accepted and boosted the idea that superbillionaires could be a positive force in a democratic society, missing (or ignoring) the fact that such massive and unaccountable power was fundamentally dangerous. Not much responsibility is being taken for that.

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The Italian spying scandal is treading very close to Pope Francis. Read our latest here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Never let them tell you that Irishness is some set, immutable fact of the blood

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Not really, tbh.

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NEW: Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs are not isolated incidents, but seem to be part of a broader pattern that suggests a systematic policy. By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @samjoiner.bsky.social and me. on.ft.com/4i6Yzve

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Highly recommend this from @parmy.bsky.social, particularly for how it captures the close-to-delusional hubris that has taken a hold at the top of the AI food chain. So many of the great AI leaps forward seem to come more from hope than understanding.

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A Kurdish woman asked to be buried “in a handful of soil” in Ireland – but her body was sent to Turkey anyway. In a note she left behind, she’d written, “Do not give my corpse to the oppressors.” More here: dublininquirer.com/2025/02/19/a...

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"We are dedicating our company to the service of the West and the United States of America, and we’re super-proud of the role we play, especially in places we can’t talk about...Palantir is here to disrupt... and, when it’s necessary, to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them.”

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In that era, that kind of managed access had a purpose. Today, in a digital age where officials publish their thoughts directly to social media, and official photos and videos are freely shared online, the purpose of a physically present reporter is far more nebulous.

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This is pure soap opera nonsense - "James wasn’t protecting Rupert, I realized. He was protecting himself" - but good entertainment for media watchers and Succession fans.

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Era-defining decisions are being made by men with an emotional age of 9. Although maybe that's always been the case.

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Latest work here… analysing the remarkable scale of Musk’s tweets during his first two weeks in government. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

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As ludicrous as it may seem, I find myself wondering if Musk and his acolytes are following some kind of accelerationist agenda where collapse is the goal.

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this is the sort of thing people like aaron and myself see all the time and we understand the msm is sanewashing him, as the great @parkermolloy.com noted, when they clean all this up and present him like he's a normal boy. for example, look at the ap report and compare it to the absolute shit

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Google is a major supplier of cloud and AI services to the IDF. What awareness or involvement do executives in Dublin, Google EMEA headquarters, have of Google's major deals with the Israeli military, and how will those be affected if the Occupied Territories bill, to be debated tonight, passes?

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📣 If you work at any of the DOGE-targeted US govt agencies and want to talk to the Financial Times in CONFIDENCE about recent developments, my details are below. 📣 ✉️ [email protected] 🔐 Signal: @joemillerjr.48 LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/joemiller...

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New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

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Spot on guest contribution in @petergeoghegan.bsky.social's Democracy For Sale from @suehawley.bsky.social @spotlightcorruption.org about the risks of deregulation and failures of transparency at Westminster / Whitehall. www.linkedin.com/pulse/labour...

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This is a strange story. I accept Dominguez is trying to do what he feels is right, but there are massive ethical issues raised by this elite "sober coach" industry. A lot it reads as simply sustaining, or even enabling, celebrity addicts in return for enormous fees. www.ft.com/content/edeb...

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China’s repression of #Uyghurs in #Xinjiang extends beyond borders to target women Uyghur activists and their families, using digital threats, harassment, surveillance, and smear campaigns to silence human rights advocacy. Read our country spotlight here: citizenlab.ca/case-studies...

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🎧: Journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey join @arusbridger.bsky.social on Media Confidential. Their 2017 documentary investigated a massacre. Then the police arrested them and raided their homes... mediaconfidential.ln...

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Great write up about Apple Cider Vinegar, the new Netflix series based on my book ⁦‪‬⁩with Nick Toscano. By ⁦‪Debi Enker‬⁩ for ⁦‪The Age‬⁩, with words from series creator Sam Strauss‬⁩ and actress Alycia Debnam-Carey. Series drops globally on February 6 www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a...

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One thing I do know - AGI will never be able to dispense KARMIC JUSTICE

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"Binance is 'likely to have assisted in habitual money laundering . . . in particular drug trafficking and tax fraud' for activities 'committed in France but also . . . in all countries of the EU." Many of Binance's millions move through at least nine Irish subsidiaries. www.ft.com/content/04e4...

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"Israeli defence sources said the IDF has become increasingly dependent on the likes of Microsoft, Amazon and Google to store and analyse greater volumes of data... Microsoft has also provided the Israeli military with large-scale access to OpenAI’s GPT-4 model." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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The 🇬🇷 Greek wiretappings trial of Intellexa owners Tal Dillian, Sara Hamou & Felix Bitzios, as well as beneficial owner of Krikel Yannis Lavranos has been set for 5 March. It concerns only misdemeanors for the violation of confidentiality of communications. www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/ell...

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"In the final month of the election campaign, Collison appeared to cross the aisle. The Limerick native gave $200,000 to various Republican political action committees (Pacs)." www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

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It's hard to overstate just how thoroughly the New York Times is failing to grasp what is going on in America with its domestic coverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

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Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please don’t shrug and say it’s normal. It’s not. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

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Will Lewis, the @washingtonpost.com publisher, will be breathing a huge sigh of relief that Prince Harry has settled his case. Some of the explosive allegations against Lewis that would have aired in a trial are detailed here in @prospectmagazine.co.uk: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

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📢 LAST CHANCE: Apply for @amnesty.org's Digital Forensic Fellowship! Working with our team at the Security Lab, you'll learn the tech and investigative skills needed to expose how governments abuse advanced spyware and other surveillance tech against activists and civil society.

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Adverts selling an opioid up to 500 times stronger than heroin are all over the internet, from social media platforms to trade sites. Bellingcat and partner Postimees investigate how this deadly drug is infiltrating Europe: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/01...

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The right kind of regulation is focused on radical transparency of the systems that shape our reality. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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