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‘On January 30, 2026, SpaceX filed for permission to launch as many as one million more satellites.’
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa...
EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6.
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The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has just published its report 'AI, copyright and the creative industries'. publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.
Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.
Gaza Soup Kitchen is a grassroots effort started by two brothers who wanted to feed their neighbors. It has grown from feeding 150 families/day to over 70,000 people/day.
Feed Gaza this Ramadan
“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.
Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex…”
Yes. They should halt age verification measures.
For any of my followers stranded in the Middle East
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social @aial.ie, ADAPT & @tcddublin.bsky.social, features in @researchireland.ie's inaugural strategy: Curiosity, Capability, Competitiveness – Charting Ireland’s Research and Innovation Future 2026–2030.
📌 Read the strategy here: www.researchireland.ie/news/researc...
Article 10(5) of the AI Act allows high-risk systems to process sensitive personal data for bias detection, with safeguards. Proposed Article 4a would extend this to all AI system providers and deployers. For more details, see Laura Caroli's analysis here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
An image of the Facebook comma that reads : The Promise "We take your privacy seriously" The Reality "We take your privacy, seriously"
The Facebook comma.
Your geopolitical explanations are incomplete if they don’t capture that much of this started because Netanyahu and DJT did not want to go to jail for crimes they definitely committed.
It’s been almost one year since Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian medics and aid workers in a brutal two-hour massacre on a vehicle convoy in southern Gaza.
Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:
Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...
This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.
State AGs must step in and block it.
Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws
techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/a...
#ECJ: Advocate General Rantos proposes the dismissal of the appeals by Meta Platforms Ireland relating to an investigation into abuse of a dominant position concerning the use of Facebook Data and the Facebook Marketplace service (C-496/23 P, C-497/23 P)
curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
Friends — I’m very short. At my zenith I was 4 feet, 11 inches. From time to time, worried parents of abnormally short children phone or email me seeking reassurance. Here's what I tell them.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/heightism
Six months today since I had radical surgery for prostate cancer.
9 weeks till I walk 40miles/64km in under 14 hours to raise funds for @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
A big thank you to Anthropic!
After a weeks-long standoff between the Defense Department and AI firm Anthropic over how the military can deploy its technology, CEO Dario Amodei said tonight that the company will not loosen its usage policies.
Private military and security companies are using more drones, facial recognition and spyware to monitor people - and what starts on the battlefield will soon come to your backyard
blog.icoca.ch/exploring-th...
Are the agents taking over? This week on the podcast, @heartofprivacy.bsky.social, @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu and @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu discuss agentic AI. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts.
seriousprivacy.buzzsprout.com/840448/episo...
People who work on borders have been raising the alarm for a while now - most borders in Western nations are incredibly violent places where many of the basic protections on human rights are suspended. What you are seeing with ICE is a violent border that is moving inwards.
Really heartening to know 12-14 year olds understand the ‘math aint mathin’ when it comes to OpenAI #TheKidsAreAlright
EDRi + 39 organisations are urging Members of the European Parliament to reject any extension of the the temporary ePrivacy derogration, also known as “Chat Control 1.0”
The proposed extension of this law would allow Big Tech companies to continue to scan billions of private messages (chats),
Gotta re-read that chapter 🤔
🇮🇷’s nuclear program began in 1957 when the Eisenhower administration sold them a civilian nuclear reactor - the idea that last year’s 12 day bombing campaign obliterate a 78 year old program is 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Here’s to hoping the @iccl.bsky.social will lead the push back against #LittleMarco’s efforts - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
