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Today, in dystopia: The world's largest call center operator is using AI to make its staff sound less Indian by @benoitberthelot.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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there were THREE YEARS of nonstop press and political hyperventilation about the dangers of Tiktok But China hacks into a dozen major telecoms to spy on powerful people and not only is the press coverage 1/100th as noisy, we're dismantling the regulators and organizations tasked with preventing it

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

South Africa’s presidency spokesman: “If a leading business figure like Elon Musk harbors the kind of unprogressive, racist views that we’ve witnessed and the peddling of lies that we’ve been confronted with, then we’re not going to pursue having his investments” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Gambling operator Stake, which sponsors @evertonfc.com, is shutting down in the UK after a Gambling Commission investigation into its advertising practices. Stake says it's decided to leave to focus on other markets. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Kaspersky researchers found apps in Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store that use OCR to steal crypto wallet recovery phrases from images on users' devices www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mobile/...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Google has quietly removed a pledge to avoid using AI in potentially harmful applications, such as weapons. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Er, a concerning report from the UK's Institution of Civil Engineers just dropped. "critical parts of the road network, particularly bridges, are 'perhaps not as safe as the public thinks, while some structures should have usage restrictions but don’t'." 😳 www.ice.org.uk/about-us/our...

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

only one in five LEAVE voters think that Brexit has been more of a success than a failure, that is nuts

submitted 30 days ago • 83 comments

Has any brand gone from cool > deeply uncool > cool again? www.theinformation.com/articles/zuc...

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

What are we doing here?

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Superb investigation by @simonlock.bsky.social & @eleanorrose87.bsky.social & Guardian & BBC into Abramovich's tax dodging by leasing his own superyachts back to himself. This was a monumental amount of work and it deserves your time: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

Astronomers just deleted an asteroid because it turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster www.astronomy.com/science/astr...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Arthur Mensch is the public face of French AI champion Mistral, but a behind-the-scenes powerbroker has been critical to its success Story with @mhbergen.bsky.social, editing @oliviasolon.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

“We call it disaster gentrification” 🧐🧐🧐

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

“We call it disaster gentrification” 🧐🧐🧐

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

We've finally defeated cancel culture. Now people only get fired for criticizing the government

submitted 37 days ago • 89 comments

Flutter's Sky Betting and Gaming illegally collected the data of a gambling-addicted customer to profile him for marketing purposes online, a High Court judge ruled today. By @dzuidijk.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

“The lawsuit was filed in the San Jose, California, federal court on behalf of LinkedIn Premium customers who sent or received InMail messages, and whose private information was disclosed to third parties for AI training before Sept. 18.”

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

DHS has terminated the memberships of everyone on its advisory committees. This includes several cyber committees, like CISA's advisory panel and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating Salt Typhoon. That review is "dead," person familiar says. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 38 days ago • 58 comments

Some of us have been warning about this and calling for anti-SLAPP laws (both federal and state) for years and years and years. And I'm not stopping now. Defamation law has been so widely abused to chill speech and so few people know it.

submitted 39 days ago • 26 comments

Don't you just hate it when you can't sell your gold yacht? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"Personalized learning" using generative AI = insipid conversations with historical figures

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Officials are reaching a consensus that the Baltic subsea cable breaks were accidents, not sabotage www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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When asked about SEC’s authority wrt shitcoins, a former SEC official said “We don’t have a lot of legal tools to prevent people from doing things that are really dumb with their money.” Incredible. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

“I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

There’s some kind of career optimization coaching bro on Twitter who has translated Remains of the Day into a business book parable webinar presentation and it might be the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen

submitted 43 days ago • 64 comments

This is also a missing data problem because the Cabinet Office release only covers central government. Most FOIs go outside central government, and so we don't have high quality information on most of the system.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Only 27% of FOI requests were granted in full in the UK, according to the most recent government data (for July-Sep 2024), down from 32% the previous year. www.gov.uk/government/s...

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Lean OUT, ladies!

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

EXCL: Russian diplomats accessed private area of parliament in major security breach just before Christmas that has alarmed security officials and prompted warnings from speakers of both Houses 👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 43 days ago • 20 comments

The explosion in digital infrastructure may be the biggest but least recognised shock delivered by the internet. We need to develop the governance capacity to manage that infrastructure in democratic ways. berjon.com/infrastructu...

submitted 158 days ago • 3 comments

Every time I check Facebook it's increasingly irrelevant to me. Here's my feed today: 1. Post from a contact 2. Ad 3. Post from group I don't follow 4. Ad 5. People you may know 6. Post from group I don't follow 7. Ad 8. Post from a contact 9. Reels 10. Ad

submitted 45 days ago • 7 comments

Between the AI garbage filling your feed and this I don't understand why anyone would still use Facebook

submitted 45 days ago • 53 comments

Reputation launderers, behold! SEO gaming for affiliate marketing was already digital slop, but this sales video does an excellent job of showing how it's pivoted to generative AI slop www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsKo...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Important deep dive into cops' "outrageously dystopian" use of facial recognition by @douglasmac.bsky.social @davidovalle.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com. A wrongfully arrested father of four was jailed for 16 months before his charges were dropped: www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

I saw some LA-based wellness/woo accounts in IG talk about ripping out their smart meters so looked up why and.... I despair

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

A fun thing you can do is pop onto Zillow, look at all rentals in a random chunk of the greater LA area, sort by recently changed, then check every price increase to see if it was more than 10%. If there's no obvious changes (didn't go from unfurnished to furnished) then report it for price gouging.

submitted 47 days ago • 23 comments

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this which WAS NOT ZUCK.

submitted 49 days ago • 113 comments

Find someone who loves you as much as AI companies love summaries

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Meta just killed its diversity, equity and inclusion program What employees are saying about the company's embrace of MAGA ideology —and what Meta is telling them not to say

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

utterly enraging www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 50 days ago • 49 comments