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Academics from across the UK higher education sector have warned that financial ties to Beijing have led to self-censorship. on.ft.com/4oDkblP
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Academics from across the UK higher education sector have warned that financial ties to Beijing have led to self-censorship. on.ft.com/4oDkblP
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China's AI wearables market is already booming: From the practical to peculiar
China's AI wearables market is already booming: From the practical to peculiar
Chinese companies moved quickly into smartglasses after Meta's release, with Inmo and Rokid sold worldwide.
cnb.cx
December 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
China's AI wearables market is already booming: From the practical to peculiar
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After meeting EU allies, Zelensky says Ukraine won’t yield territory to Russia
After meeting EU allies, Zelensky says Ukraine won’t yield territory to Russia
“We don’t want to cede anything,” the Ukrainian president said, with territory still one of the main sticking points in peace talks
dlvr.it
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
After meeting EU allies, Zelensky says Ukraine won’t yield territory to Russia
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British universities’ reliance on Chinese fees fuelling self-censorship, say academics on.ft.com/48YhMxh
British universities’ reliance on Chinese fees fuelling self-censorship, say academics
Lecturers call for improved safeguards against Beijing’s influence on UK campuses
on.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
British universities’ reliance on Chinese fees fuelling self-censorship, say academics on.ft.com/48YhMxh
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So excited that my book with @allisoncarnegie.bsky.social, Global Governance Under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave, will be published with @princetonupress.bsky.social on January 27, 2026. You can pre-order the book now for 30% off with the code P329 at the below link!
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
So excited that my book with @allisoncarnegie.bsky.social, Global Governance Under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave, will be published with @princetonupress.bsky.social on January 27, 2026. You can pre-order the book now for 30% off with the code P329 at the below link!
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The UK's Ministry of Defence plans to develop autonomous vessels that operate AI technology alongside warships and aircraft to better protect Britain’s undersea cables and pipelines from Moscow.
UK announces military tech to counter Russian submarine threat
Navy chief Gwyn Jenkins was expected to praise “revolutionary underwater network” tracking adversaries after a Russian spy ship entered British waters.
www.politico.eu
December 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The UK's Ministry of Defence plans to develop autonomous vessels that operate AI technology alongside warships and aircraft to better protect Britain’s undersea cables and pipelines from Moscow.
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I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed.
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed.
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
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Any doubts about American intentions vis-à-vis #Ukraine and #Europe were put to rest on Friday with the #US' new #NationalSecurity Strategy. BIG's Claude-France Arnould argues the only way to avoid a nightmare is to wake up - and start building effective European power, now.
🔗 shorturl.at/4UinV
🔗 shorturl.at/4UinV
December 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Any doubts about American intentions vis-à-vis #Ukraine and #Europe were put to rest on Friday with the #US' new #NationalSecurity Strategy. BIG's Claude-France Arnould argues the only way to avoid a nightmare is to wake up - and start building effective European power, now.
🔗 shorturl.at/4UinV
🔗 shorturl.at/4UinV
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This is NOT FUNNY AT ALL (giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...).
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is NOT FUNNY AT ALL (giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...).
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Nature research paper: Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes
go.nature.com/48QTo0t
go.nature.com/48QTo0t
Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes - Nature
Glitches in video calls can have a negative effect on the judgement of the people involved and correspond to worse outcomes in major areas of life such as job interviews and parole hearings.
go.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Nature research paper: Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes
go.nature.com/48QTo0t
go.nature.com/48QTo0t
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The UK must do more than go on muddling through on.ft.com/3KNTSLJ | opinion
The UK must do more than go on muddling through
We need to look at the causes of the country’s dire economic performance
on.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The UK must do more than go on muddling through on.ft.com/3KNTSLJ | opinion
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Quite unusual track of 'MT CROCO' aka 'ARIA'
Broadcasting Gambia MMSI - EU/UK sanctioned, must be assumed to be false.
Doing 18 knots through the Irish Sea 🤨
sketchy.boats/9327360
Broadcasting Gambia MMSI - EU/UK sanctioned, must be assumed to be false.
Doing 18 knots through the Irish Sea 🤨
sketchy.boats/9327360
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Quite unusual track of 'MT CROCO' aka 'ARIA'
Broadcasting Gambia MMSI - EU/UK sanctioned, must be assumed to be false.
Doing 18 knots through the Irish Sea 🤨
sketchy.boats/9327360
Broadcasting Gambia MMSI - EU/UK sanctioned, must be assumed to be false.
Doing 18 knots through the Irish Sea 🤨
sketchy.boats/9327360
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Don't let anyone—not even the US Secretary of State—tell you that the European Commission's €120 million enforcement against Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Service Act is about censorship, writes Daphne Keller. It’s just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, she says.
The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press
The €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, writes Stanford's Daphne Keller.
buff.ly
December 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Don't let anyone—not even the US Secretary of State—tell you that the European Commission's €120 million enforcement against Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Service Act is about censorship, writes Daphne Keller. It’s just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, she says.
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By maintaining stability and innovating to hold out against Russia, Kyiv has shown that size matters less in conflict than it used to: on.ft.com/48nPvjx
Ukraine, Europe and the new economics of war
By maintaining stability and innovating to hold out against Russia, Kyiv has shown that size matters less in conflict than it used to
on.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
By maintaining stability and innovating to hold out against Russia, Kyiv has shown that size matters less in conflict than it used to: on.ft.com/48nPvjx
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Come for the geopolitics and history, stay for the most robustly detailed “no” answer I’ve ever received to the interview question “have you ever been a spy?”
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Russia has made Britain its number one enemy
Ex-Nato official John Lough on how the UK is being “singled out” for Russian aggression
www.newstatesman.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Come for the geopolitics and history, stay for the most robustly detailed “no” answer I’ve ever received to the interview question “have you ever been a spy?”
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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The European Commission has lost access to its control panel for buying and tracking ads on Elon Musk’s X — after fining the social media platform €120 million for violating EU transparency rules.
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”…
www.politico.eu
December 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The European Commission has lost access to its control panel for buying and tracking ads on Elon Musk’s X — after fining the social media platform €120 million for violating EU transparency rules.
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Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission should continue to enforce its digital rules with an iron fist despite the outcry from U.S. officials and big tech moguls, co-chair of the Greens in the European Parliament Bas Eickhout told POLITICO.
Keep hitting US Big Tech with fines, Europe’s Greens tell von der Leyen
EU Greens chief tells POLITICO Brussels “should pick on this battle and stand strong” in the face of U.S. backlash.
www.politico.eu
December 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission should continue to enforce its digital rules with an iron fist despite the outcry from U.S. officials and big tech moguls, co-chair of the Greens in the European Parliament Bas Eickhout told POLITICO.
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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : le Kremlin estime que la nouvelle stratégie de sécurité américaine est « conforme » à la vision de la Russie
EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : le Kremlin estime que la nouvelle stratégie de sécurité américaine est « conforme » à la vision de la Russie
Le porte-parole du Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, espère que cette nouvelle stratégie « puisse constituer une modeste garantie à notre capacité de continuer de manière constructive notre travail conjoint pour trouver un règlement pacifique en Ukraine ».
www.lemonde.fr
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : le Kremlin estime que la nouvelle stratégie de sécurité américaine est « conforme » à la vision de la Russie
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Europe is shifting from regulating technology to building it. Whether it can do so without sacrificing the values it seeks to protect will shape the global digital order, write Nicole Manger and Vidisha Mishra.
Can Europe Build Digital Sovereignty While Safeguarding Its Rights Legacy? | TechPolicy.Press
Europe is shifting from regulating tech to building it, but can it do so without compromising the values it defends, ask Nicole Manger and Vidisha Mishra.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Europe is shifting from regulating technology to building it. Whether it can do so without sacrificing the values it seeks to protect will shape the global digital order, write Nicole Manger and Vidisha Mishra.
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I just read a piece by @iandunt.bsky.social asking why people are still on blatantly Nazi Twitter and how this place really is the answer, and I thought he's right, I need to be checking in on here more so hello everyone.
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I just read a piece by @iandunt.bsky.social asking why people are still on blatantly Nazi Twitter and how this place really is the answer, and I thought he's right, I need to be checking in on here more so hello everyone.
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“Every week of delay strengthens the hand of those treating Ukraine’s reconstruction as a business opportunity rather than a question of national sovereignty,” Candace Rondeaux writes.
Europe Hesitated on Ukraine. Trump and Putin Moved In
Europe’s indecision about whether and how to use frozen Russian assets for war reparations created a dangerous opening.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Every week of delay strengthens the hand of those treating Ukraine’s reconstruction as a business opportunity rather than a question of national sovereignty,” Candace Rondeaux writes.
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Interesting threat. Let’s hope Musk bans from x all @ec.europa.eu members, and @consilium.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu , and indeed everyone in Europe. Actually they should all leave anyway and join🦋
Elon Musk slammed the EU after it slapped a fine on his social media platform X for violating transparency rules, warning his response would target the top officials behind the penalty.
Musk threatens ‘response’ against individuals who imposed €120M X penalty
The tech billionaire blasted “EU woke Stasi commissars” in posts on his social media platform, X.
www.politico.eu
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Interesting threat. Let’s hope Musk bans from x all @ec.europa.eu members, and @consilium.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu , and indeed everyone in Europe. Actually they should all leave anyway and join🦋
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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a disruption to internet connectivity in #Ukraine after a series of Russian missile and drone attacks targeting energy and transport infrastructure in multiple regions followed by emergency power shutdowns 🔌📉
December 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a disruption to internet connectivity in #Ukraine after a series of Russian missile and drone attacks targeting energy and transport infrastructure in multiple regions followed by emergency power shutdowns 🔌📉
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Experts from @randeurope.org explain why NATO can't afford to lag behind in electromagnetic warfare. https://bit.ly/3XESwFV
Electromagnetic Warfare: NATO's Blind Spot Could Decide the Next Conflict
The war in Ukraine has revealed a critical weakness in NATO's defenses: electromagnetic warfare (EW). While Russia dominates this invisible battlespace, Ukraine is learning in combat what the West neg...
www.rand.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Experts from @randeurope.org explain why NATO can't afford to lag behind in electromagnetic warfare. https://bit.ly/3XESwFV