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Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 6d

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
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Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d

California Governor Gavin Newsom "vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided more transparency around the water usage of data centers, which regularly require millions of gallons of fresh water to cool their computers."

Gavin Newsom blocks effort to make CA data centers disclose water use. Why?

Data-center water usage can vary from 110 million gallons to 1.8 billion gallons per year.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d

A Financial Times infographic titled “The circle of AI: how capital revolves in the tech ecosystem.” It illustrates financial flows among OpenAI, Oracle, CoreWeave, Nvidia, and AMD. Arrows represent relationships: solid blue for customers, dashed blue for investors, light blue for repurchase agreements, and pink for vendor financing or favorable terms. Key figures include: OpenAI as a $36bn customer of Oracle and $22.4bn customer of CoreWeave; Oracle investing $300bn in OpenAI; Nvidia investing $100bn in CoreWeave and $40bn in Oracle; Oracle as a $0.75bn customer of AMD; and several TBD (to be determined) financial connections. Sources are company data and Morgan Stanley research.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 1d

There is just absolutely no evidence that normalizing mass surveillance and its hellish tools works to keep us safe.

We’re giving up on democracy in the name of inflated, grotesque promises that simply no technology can realize.

The harms are very real though — and ignored.

Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 1d

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts www.computerweekly.com/news/3666322...

Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits | Computer Weekly

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts.

www.computerweekly.com

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Mr. W @walt86.bsky.social · 3d

@noyb.eu é riuscita nuovamente a smuovere le acque. Ora resta alle comunità e ai legislatori il compito di scolpire il concetto di progresso e il ruolo della privacy nella società. Una responsabilità non da poco.

La piattaforma Microsoft usata per la didattica a distanza è finita sotto inchiesta

Il Garante della protezione dei dati austriaco sta conducendo un’indagine approfondita su Microsoft 365 Education, piattaforma cloud ampiamente impiegata per la didattica digitale via cloud, a seguito...

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noyb @noyb.eu · 4d

🎉 Big #WIN for student privacy! 🔒 Austria’s DPA has issued a decision finding that #Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks pupils and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes.

📰 Read the full blog post, including a comment by Max #Schrems 👉 noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children

Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 4d

"Shocking," said no women researcher, ever.

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 4d

“Women-led papers were more likely to be featured in local outlets than in national, international, or science-specialty media. They appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone”

www.science.org/content/arti...

When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow

Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds

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il Post @ilpost.it · 5d

DAZN ha chiesto 500 euro a chi è stato multato per aver guardato illegalmente le partite

È una forma di riparazione per evitare una causa civile, e anche un tentativo di fare deterrenza

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 5d

🚨 According to @irpimedia.eu & @lastampa.bsky.social, prominent 🇮🇹 Italian businessman Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone has been added to the list of people who last January received a message from WhatsApp informing them that they had been targeted with Paragon's Graphite #spyware.

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Arianna Ciccone @ariannaciccone.bsky.social · 6d

Dagli Stati Uniti parte l’attacco globale all’antifascismo | @jacopodimiceli.bsky.social @valigiablu.it

Dagli Stati Uniti parte l’attacco globale all’antifascismo - Valigia Blu

L'assassinio di Charlie Kirk ha innescato una serie di provvedimenti e proposte per considerare organizzazione terroristica gli "antifa": un termine ombrello che però non rappresenta nessun gruppo spe...

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 8d

BREAKING | Paramount officially acquires anti-woke The Free Press and names Bari Weiss CBS News’ editor-in-chief

Paramount buys anti-woke The Free Press, names Bari Weiss CBS News’ editor-in-chief

Bari Weiss is now the top editor of CBS News.

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Mr. W @walt86.bsky.social · 9d

La GenAI si espande e i deepfake persistono: cresce la produzione di video che “nudificano” donne senza consenso. Dalla mia ricerca per @valigiablu.it emergono cifre allarmanti. Più che nuove norme, serve responsabilizzare le piattaforme che ci lucrano sopra e diffondere l’educazione al consenso.

Valigia Blu @valigiablu.it · 9d

🧵 I deepfake stanno trasformando il corpo delle donne in merce digitale
www.valigiablu.it/deepfake-int...

I deepfake stanno trasformando il corpo delle donne in merce digitale - Valigia Blu

Nel 2024 Taylor Swift diventa bersaglio di un’ondata virale di deepfake sessuali, mostrando la facilità con cui la tecnologia può creare falsi convincenti. Le nuove leggi in Italia e il Digital Servic...

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 12d

Today marks the seventh anniversary of the Saudi state-sponsored murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

As comedians perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, we urge them to publicly call for Saudi authorities to free unjustly detained Saudi dissidents, journalists, and activists.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12d

Second order this year focuses on UK users; earlier attempt included US user data, but was withdrawn under US pressure.

UK gov’t demand to access Apple users’ data raises civil liberties issues

Second order this year focuses on UK users; earlier attempt included US user data, but was withdrawn under US pressure.

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Keith Wooo-schmann Wilson 👻 @keithwilson.eu · 13d

😂 #AISlop

Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 13d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Mr. W @walt86.bsky.social · 13d

Che le IA non siano frutto di magia, ma di lavoro umano sottopagato lo sappiamo da tempo — eppure continuiamo a fingere sorpresa.

Ora che lo sfruttamento non si limita più a manodopera lontana e colpisce anche lavoratori negli Stati Uniti, qualcuno inizierà forse a riconoscere il problema.

Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech's Exploitation - TechEquity Collaborative

Alphabet Workers Union-CWA and TechEquity interviewed U.S. data workers to shed light on the working conditions of the people powering AI.

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Mr. W @walt86.bsky.social · 14d

X in mano a Musk, TikTok in mano a Ellison/Murdoch. La direzione è chiara.

Non resta che confidare in Meta e Google perché ribilancino il panorama dell'informazione pubblica.. 🥶

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 14d

More than half of Americans get their news regularly from Tiktok. And this has more than doubled in 5 years. Tiktok has become a key gateway to news and politics.

This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.

Source: @pewresearch.org

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 15d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16d

Netanyahu faces diplomatic isolation at UN General Assembly.

Fact check: Israeli prime minister Netanyahu’s speech at UNGA

Netanyahu faces diplomatic isolation at UN General Assembly.

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Mr. W @walt86.bsky.social · 21d

Ogni volta faccio fatica a crederci, penso che sia una trollata e mi tocca controllare... e invece: x.com/DHSgov/statu...

Homeland Security on X: "Gotta Catch ‘Em All. https://t.co/qCvflkJGmB" / X

Gotta Catch ‘Em All. https://t.co/qCvflkJGmB

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22d

Thousands attended rallies in Manila over a corruption scandal linked to ghost flood control projects.

More than 200 arrested after anticorruption protests in Philippines

Thousands attended rallies in Manila over a corruption scandal linked to ghost flood control projects.

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Mario Seminerio @phastidio.net · 22d

"Io odio il mio avversario, e non gli auguro il bene"
(L'odio vince sempre sull'amore, in pratica)
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Trump says 'I hate my opponents' at Charlie Kirk's memorial

YouTube video by NBC News

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Mr. W @walt86.bsky.social · 23d

Squisita dote di sintesi di Jeff Bezos da parte di @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

How Bezos Got Rich

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Mr. W @walt86.bsky.social · 26d

Guai ad avere opinioni antifasciste.

Trump says he will label antifa as a terrorist organization

The president’s comments come amid deep polarization and attention on free speech following the death of Charlie Kirk.

www.politico.com

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 28d

With China continuing to seek meaningful concessions on trade and technology, it appears that a TikTok sale is not yet a done deal, despite the White House's claims.

Will TikTok go dark Wednesday? Trump claims deal with China avoids shutdown.

Experts aren’t sure China will agree to a sale without more trade war concessions.

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