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David Meyer
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Tech journalist and presenter of Tech Gets Real. Sings and plays guitar in a band called The Board. Signal: superglaze.66
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On Bregman, I was there in the audience and I can’t see what the BBC have gained by removing this line except more bad publicity. I will say that no such edits or censorship occurred when I gave the Reith Lectures and free-speech defenders might want think about whether this is the world they want.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I'm in today's NYT DealBook, writing about the US's latest anti-tech-rules threat against Europe www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
The Fed and Big Tech Lift Investors’ Spirits
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🗳️Again, a 2/3 majority backed the report condemning the Orbán government’s rule-of-law violations in the EP: 415 in favour, 193 against, 28 abstentions. As the abstentions aren’t counted in the tally, the 2/3 majority stands, just as it did 7 years ago with the @judithsargentini.bsky.social report
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Did a video about poisoning AI with disinformation youtu.be/VnDUkngx6CU
Poisoning AI with disinformation
YouTube video by Tech Gets Real
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.

I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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The European digital rule-book is not up for negotiation.
We, Europeans, have adopted our rules to ensure fair markets and to protect consumers rights while backing Europe’s digital future.
It’s our duty to preserve our values and to defend our people. 🇪🇺
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A huge ECJ win for many same-sex couples in Europe
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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ISPs and cellular carriers will no longer be required to meet minimum cybersecurity standards after an FCC vote Thursday. “This is such a terrible idea. This is rolling out the red carpet for another attack,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @CNET.com. www.cnet.com/home/intern...
Internet Providers Can Monitor Their Own Cybersecurity Standards, Says Trump’s FCC
In what the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls a "terrible idea," the Federal Communications Commission has rescinded the requirement for telecom companies to issue yearly cybersecurity reports.
www.cnet.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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it just strikes me as a bad idea to pick fights with an astronaut.
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I 100% set Gemini up for failure here but I appreciate LLMs' game willingness to go along when I asked it for details on the musical number I had just entirely made up
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The video of the #EuroskyLive morning sessions is up! You'll find time to jump to specific sessions in the description.

Featuring, among others @robin.berjon.com @seabass.bsky.social @gaurivangulik.bsky.social @alexandrageese.bsky.social @geurkink.bsky.social

vimeo.com/1140026673?s...
Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025 - morning sessions
Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025 brought together policymakers, media leaders, investors, and founders to explore how open infrastructure can enable European innovation.…
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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This is as close as the lawyers at the Journal allow reporters to get to "fraudulent fraudsters sighted wearing fraud pants and doing a fraud." www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Yours for a bit shy of one million of your finest English pounds: one crack den.
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Lutnick Says EU Digital Rules Must Change for Steel Tariff Deal www.euractiv.com/news/us-tell... - here we are, again- and the Digital Omnibus presented on a tray?
US tells EU to 'roll back' digital rules against US tech companies | Euractiv
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick dangled the "carrot" of US giants investing in EU data centres in exchange for "reasonable" laws – and the "stick" of tariffs
www.euractiv.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What happened to this guy at the age of 13 that froze his development?
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Really want to record the next episode of Tech Gets Real, but the drilling next door keeps starting again
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Tying one's fortunes to Trump continues to confound me.
Europe's gutting of its privacy rules would be yet another self-defeating capitulation to Trump. Instead, Europe should be ensuring that it can break free of American Big Tech. youtu.be/T4rC8x7WBf0
Digital Surrender: Why gutting Europe's GDPR is capitulating to Trump
YouTube video by Tech Gets Real
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The fact companies can just assert a right to the information because their business model is selling it and call it “legitimate interest” gutted it and showed Europe doesn’t have a spine when it comes to lobbyists. Now they’d cave to unreliable technocrats again?
Europe's gutting of its privacy rules would be yet another self-defeating capitulation to Trump. Instead, Europe should be ensuring that it can break free of American Big Tech. youtu.be/T4rC8x7WBf0
Digital Surrender: Why gutting Europe's GDPR is capitulating to Trump
YouTube video by Tech Gets Real
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Europe's gutting of its privacy rules would be yet another self-defeating capitulation to Trump. Instead, Europe should be ensuring that it can break free of American Big Tech. youtu.be/T4rC8x7WBf0
Digital Surrender: Why gutting Europe's GDPR is capitulating to Trump
YouTube video by Tech Gets Real
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Morning fox
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM