French soldiers boarded an oil tanker suspected of belonging to Russia's "shadow fleet" and possibly launching the drones that disrupted air traffic in Denmark last month. Two senior crew members are now in custody. The ship is stationed off the coast of western France.

The Network Advertising Initiative proposes their version of St Augustin' s prayer "make me chaste and virtuous, but not yet.". In case anyone is taken in by this (thinking of you @gavinnewsom.bsky.social), this was exactly their position 12 years ago with Do Not Track

Standing on the top of the turnbuckle with my hand cupped around my ear as the crowd screams “IS? THAT? GOOD???” www.theinformation.com/articles/bus...

Tony Blair Institute has received US levels of big tech corporate funding from Oracle and others and has massive influence on UK Government policy including on AI and exploitation of peoples sensitive personal data. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Apple's playbook is the same as Big Oil's: delay is winning. It's good the EU didn't give away its power to regulate like a common Chuck Schumer, but Apple is brazenly violating the DMA to deny EU citizens real browser choice because it threatens the App Store: infrequently.org/2025/09/appl...

CDT applauds the California legislature for passing AB 566, which enables Californians to easily opt-out of the sale of their data through universal opt-out mechanisms in their browsers rather than needing to navigate each website to express their preferences.

In a time of relentless tracking, it should be easy for Americans to our control our privacy l California has an opportunity to set a higher standard for the country. @CAgovernor, sign AB 566. Ensure that millions of Californians can opt out of the sale and sharing of their private information.

Will California Govenor Gavin Newsom sign Assembly Bill 566 that requires browser companies let people opt-out from having their personal information collected and shared online? Or will he cave to lobbying from Big Tech and the behaviousal ad industry?

Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Number go up, number go up, no think about number number always good number always up number up number up number up

A future big story - and I'll have a scoop about this next week! - is that Microsoft is straight up out of ideas. AI *has not worked for them*. Microsoft 365 Copilot (the AI part of their crown jewel of revenue) is shockingly unpopular. I'll reveal how unpopular Monday on wheresyoured.at

AI is cooked

Jeremy Muddles Through open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/j...

As we said many times over 15 years, the ePrivacy Directive didn't call for incessant "consent popups", only that people mustn't be tracked UNLESS they give informed consent. An unobtrusive button in a footer linking to a clear description & an agree/decline option suffices bsky.app/profile/poli...

“Ignorance is Strength”. Was Orwell’s Big Brother right? open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Hey all, quick question: is it good that mark zuckerberg’s answer to “are we in a bubble” was “yeah, maybe, but don’t worry, it’s just like the dot com boom,” a point easily-disproved? Isn’t he meant to be the guy who has a real answer? Is this good? Hello?! www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

Lina Khan points out especial risks when monopolies start to control mainstream media. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w... h/t @douglasfarrar.bsky.social

When you remove NVIDIA/the mag7's spend, there is less than a billion dollars of actual revenue in renting GPUs, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars of private credit flowing into building capacity. NVIDIA accounts for more than 50% of ALL GPU rentals. www.wheresyoured.at/is-there-any...

Forever young :)

Journalists questioning Nigel Farage should be pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings. How hard can this be? youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...

we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers

Invoking "economic growth" & the vaguest of claims about #AdTech the UK Information Commissioner plans to explicitly “enable” non-compliant business models. Even partial Responses (by 7 Sept 25) pushing back on this erosion of rights & democratic processes would be good! ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

📰 "The Austrian data protection authority has ordered YouTube to give users access to their personal data, enforcing data access rules contained in the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)." www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

It sucks that it wasn't more but $1.5bn is a lot considering that's basically all the revenue they made this year so far, revenue that cost them billions to make. This is meaningful

I think that any big tech company that walks away from AI will have celebrations like the end of Return of the Jedi. Is anyone having fun? Does anyone *really* like this? It all feels so strained, so distant. Even the people who love AI talk about it like someone has their family captive. It’s sad!

Totally insane story from The Information: NVIDIA (an investor in Lambda) is now their biggest customer. Lambda recently raised $500m in debt to buy GPUs, secured using the GPUs it already owns. www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-quietly-boosts-cloud-ally-1-5-billion-deal-rent-ai-chips?rc=kz8jh3

Reducing the human component of capital leads to reduced profit. Who knew? www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

A Judge Lets Google Get Away with Monopoly open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...

i cannot wait to return to this specific bit of this story

The dangerous vibes powering VCs' favorite startup category pitchbook.com/news/article...

Invoking "economic growth" & the vaguest of claims about #AdTech the UK Information Commissioner plans to explicitly “enable” non-complaint business models. Even partial Responses (by 7 Sept 25) pushing back on this erosion of rights & democratic processes encouraged. ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

The Energy War Intensifies open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Mosley, Powell - and now Farage - ride on the crest of an inflammatory wave but eventually finish up in the dustbin of British history, in retrospect remembered as sad and despised politicians who tried to build political careers on the back of hate.

"I think there are a lot of cautionary tales about what happens when you try to hitch national sovereign goals to a private tech company, and what they do with that power.” www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

The current state of the AI ecosystem

“We are convinced that your existing EU law powers provide ample opportunity to refuse to authorise the sale of Israel Bonds. Purchase of Israel Bonds raises significant investor protection concerns, including potential responsibility” Signatory list: academicsforpalestine.org/wp-content/u...

Today on interstellar comet ☄️ 3I/ATLAS, this time from our team with ESO's VLT: the coma shows rich atomic nickel! This entirely natural metal emission from grains was only recently (last 4 yrs) identified in Solar System comets, was in 2I/Borisov, & now in 3I. 🔭🧪 Rahatgaonkar et al, ApJL submitted

Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME? NVIDIA barely beat earnings estimates, and it seems part of the reason they beat them was the value of their god damn CoreWeave shares?

“A Steeply-Rising Production of Cyanide and Nickel Without Iron in the Gas Plume Around 3I/ATLAS” by Avi Loeb Read “A Steeply-Rising Production of Cyanide and Nickel Without Iron in the Gas Plume Around 3I/ATLAS“ by Avi Loeb on Medium: avi-loeb.medium.com/a-steeply-ri...

NVIDIA Q2 revenue up slightly (1.3% ) over forecasts but 88% is data centre sales which were probably agreed months ago.

Drowning in a sea of racism open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/d...

The First Webb Telescope Observations of 3I/ATLAS, reinforces possibility its very large and contains a lot of carbon. avi-loeb.medium.com/the-first-we...