Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Effective politics requires relationships & community. Today’s parties only think about harvesting individual votes, not recognizing that the social investment will actually get them more votes & build long-term support. Good parties go even further by integrating into community life year round.

I spent some time spelunking in the footnotes of the Oregon National Guard litigation and came to the horrible conclusion that we're watching the record decay in real time under the weight of a right-wing influencer circus www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

There should be criminal penalties for any chatbot operator that makes any sort of recommendation or engages in any political conversation that may bias a potential voter one way or the other.

New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Sam Altman woke up one morning after watching "I, Robot" and said "damn, it'd be really cool if we built that"

Disturbing. Online advertising is a threat to national security

new by me - a look at MIT’s cyberslop IOCs and TTPs included doublepulsar.com/cyberslop-me...

New from me: As Flock Safety cameras proliferate across the US, creating a real-time national database on Americans' movements for police, people in cities like Austin, Denver and Sedona are pushing back.

Unmmm, isn’t this worse?

"Applications of technology that are friendly to the Administration are going unchallenged, in part because tech companies have become increasingly willing to support Trump's whims... Only tools that exist independent of Big Tech seem like safe bets for dissent." www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

It's a straight up copy of Wikipedia, but apparently Wikipedia has something to learn

Same country that thinks it's going to deter China through offensive cyber operations, btw. Maybe the plan is to bamboozle China by having so much insecure infrastructure that they can't decide what to hack.

Great interview. I linked to a timestamp where they talk about how social media's algorithms have led to a breakdown of civic engagement / trust. Jon Stewart raises a great point about the algorithm encouraging outrage.

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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

this article will publish tomorrow at 7:30 AM www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-new-yo...

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

When you think about it, RFC 821 really had established the new world order

🚨SCOOP🚨 DHS ordered OpenAI to identify a user who'd made 2 specific prompts. User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent. First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Peter Thiel (knows about the antichrist)

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

No kings.

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Yikes

On a Saturday night I stumbled across something on the internet that made me feel like ****** my pants. A giant dataset of real surveillance operations targeting 1000s of people across nearly every country. Unraveling it and the mysterious company behind it has consumed 1.5 years of my life

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Section 230 is basically the first amendment of the internet but many people don’t see it that way. Many people don’t know much about section 230 at all. That’s where we come in www.whatissection230.org

@kagi.com URL rewriting rules are wildly undersold. This is perhaps the most useful feature from this search engine for privacy-conscious folks. I can cut out centralized social media simply by rewriting search result URLs.

As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software—as they have with open source in the past—they risk introducing critical security failures along the way.

Very hopeful! They're doing some good work.

This is a big deal.

Apple/Google Play Store blocking ICE tracking apps should be a push into decentralized RF communication.

Police arrest man based on his ChatGPT prompts. Did they issue a warrant to OpenAI, did company give notice to the accused? How was the prompt “found?”

This is a fun fact that will absolutely ruin your day (but at least you're finding out about it before a theoretical implementation)

Since becoming FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr has wasted no time in dramatically changing the US wireless market — quickly moving to eliminate the fourth and fifth largest wireless carriers and forcing them to sell off their spectrum to ATT, T-Mobile, and SpaceX.

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"After five months, the data trends for both groups suggested features of compulsive behavior — repeatedly feeling urges to do something, even if they think it’s harmful in the long run." The Post shares an analysis of TikTok use based on data provided by its readere:

this looks great

People are being robbed. The answer to that is not shame or anger. The answer is empathy and compassion.

TikTok's new owners aren't invulnerable.

an "Anti-social Democrat" is running for congress with a bold no posting strategy www.404media.co/can-you-win-...

Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

what if we made a tiktok that was just ai generated video shovelware that uses as much energy as possible in order to such as much motivation and creativity out of us as possible?

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe. But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users. nyti.ms/3ILwCNo