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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6h

The New York bank is overriding an earlier plan for voluntary enrolment amid heightened security concerns at corporate offices on.ft.com/4oi84e9

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 5h

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Kate warns too much screen time damages family life

The Princess of Wales says that smartphones and digital devices are causing an

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7h

The pope just condemned AI hype ✌🏼

Jonasnuts @jonasnuts.bsky.social · 8h

Este título é ABSOLUTAMENTE genial :-)

(Têm de seguir o link para perceber a coisa, mas vale mesmo a pena).

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You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 5h

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Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 15h

This wouldn't happen in the US... Oh wait... "China Punishes ‘Excessively Pessimistic’ Social Media Users. As China struggles w/econ. discontent, internet censors are silencing those who voice doubts re: work or marriage, or simply sigh too loudly online." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

China Punishes ‘Excessively Pessimistic’ Social Media Users

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 15h

"4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant says message board will need to comply with other codes which will also include age assurance for sites hosting violent and adult content

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13h

"A new Michigan bill aimed at banning online pornography is drawing concern from privacy and cybersecurity experts, not just for its moral stance, but for its potential impact on virtual private networks, tools millions of people use for security and remote work." www.wilx.com/2025/10/09/e...

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 13h

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The AI data gold rush is over. Here's what comes next

Publishers are suing. Cloudflare has turned into the internet's bouncer. And AI companies are discovering they may have poisoned their own well

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 16h

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An AI became a crypto millionaire. Now it's fighting to become a person

In the past year, an AI made millions in cryptocurrency. It's written the gospel of its own pseudo-religion and counts tech billionaires among its devotees. Now it wants legal rights.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 16h

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Clearview sees red as UK tribunal sides with data regulator

: Court says ICO can chase US outfit for unlawfully hoovering up Brits' selfies

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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House of Huawei by Eva Dou

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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‘I’m a composer. Am I staring extinction in the face?’: classical music and AI

Technology is radically reshaping how we make music. As I dug deeper into this for a radio 3 documentary I began to wonder if creative organisations are right to be so upbeat about AI. Are we riding t...

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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ChatGPT Has Been My Tutor for the Last Year. I Still Have Concerns. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

This transition will be messy, and no policy will be perfect. But if we don’t agree on how to talk about AI, when to use it, and when to avoid it, we risk creating fragmented and inequitable experienc...

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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Governments are spending billions on their own ‘sovereign’ AI technologies – is it a big waste of money?

Many US-built AI systems fall short but competing against tech giants neither easy nor cheap

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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Legendary Apple designer Jony Ive wants to fix our relationship with the phones he helped create—and has up to 20 different OpenAI gadgets to do so | Fortune

Ive said he hopes the new generation of AI-first devices brings more joy and less anxiety.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News - MrBeast: AI means it's 'scary times' for YouTube creators - BBC News
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MrBeast: AI means it's 'scary times' for YouTube creators

He says he's worried about what will happen to millions of creators when AI videos are as good as normal ones.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

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BBC News - ChatGPT image snares suspect in deadly Pacific Palisades fire
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Pacific Palisades fire suspect snared by ChatGPT image, say investigators

Investigators say evidence collected from the 29-year-old's devices showed an AI image of a burning city.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 2d

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Suspected Chinese government operatives used ChatGPT to shape mass surveillance proposals, OpenAI says | CNN Politics

Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance and to help promote another that allegedly scans social media accounts for “...

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Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’

Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 2d

We can’t count our way out: Rethinking quantification amidst digital Authoritarianism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 2d

NEW: Justice systems around the world are struggling to address damage from deepfakes, which are increasingly used for financial scams, in political messaging, and to spread non-consensual sexual imagery

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes

AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

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Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 3d

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Launching Sora responsibly

To address the novel safety challenges posed by a state-of-the-art video model as well as a new social creation platform, we’ve built Sora 2 and the Sora app with safety at the foundation. Our approac...

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