J’adore comment la gauche est heureuse d’imaginer l’après Macro. Alors que l’après Macron, tres vraisemblablement, c’est l’extrême droite. Note que je suis d’accord que c’est un président détestable. C’est juste qu’on peu avoir pire, et que vraisemblablement, il suffit d’attendre.

Ukrainian drones have hit the Bashneft oil refinery complex in Bashkortostan, a whopping 1,400 km from the frontline. #explodey

(1/4) Catch up on our recent analysis: • Russia-Ukraine War • Series: When Guardrails Erode • Series: Spyware • U.S. military • Violent extremism www.justsecurity.org/121966/diges...

Quando salterà il tappo e uscirà il liquame che teneva ben schiacciato, ripensate a tutti quelli che vi hanno giurato e spergiurato che senza AI non sarebbe stato più possibile educare i nostri figli, curarci, mantenere in sicurezza i nostri confini o fare sostanzialmente alcunché.

‼️ Spyware used against key actor in shake-up of the Italian banking sector, contested by the government. After spyware abuse to silence political opponents, we are entering a whole new era, with potentially massive economic effects in the EU single market. Will @ec.europa.eu finally wake up?!

This is absolutely insane

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there. It’s just the world we live in now.

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

AI driving fascism in NL (this story, for non-Dutch speakers, is about far right politicians sharing fake AI fake images of pretty blondes being harassed by migrants).

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

As an Italian, that's actually the highest form of flattery

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Finally

New calls on Microsoft to suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses & international crimes by the Israeli military & other government bodies www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... @hrw.org @accessnow.org @amnesty.org @7amleh.bsky.social @eff.org @fightforthefuture.org

For over a decade, we @citizenlab.ca have documented extensive abuse of NSO Group's spyware, including being used to target political opposition, journalists, activists, human rights defenders and US govt officials. *This sale should not be permitted* techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/s...

Want an introduction to digital surveillance, and how to protect your communications with others? Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense write-up. ssd.eff.org/en/module/c...

Protecting your privacy doesn't have to be scary. Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense guides for step-by-step tutorials for keeping your data and devices secure. ssd.eff.org/

Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...

"UNRWA is waiting for green light to bring in supplies. our teams in Gaza are ready to receive and distribute them. They include good, medicines and hygiene kits" our Juliette Touma tells @nytimes.com

The GHF - the US/Israeli "humanitarian" operation during which thousands of starving Palestinians were shot dead - is gone and won't return.

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft illegally tracked students, data watchdog finds. The Austrian DPA has ruled that Microsoft 365 Education used tracking cookies without consent — illegally collecting student data - following a complaint supported by @noyb.eu noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

📢 New research alert: SMEX has published an investigation about WANA's principal commercial spyware vendors (CSVs). 🕵️ The report notes that one of today’s biggest violators of personal privacy is the commercial spyware industry. 📖 Read more smex.org/new-research...

The New Humanitarian has partnered with five slam poets from eastern DRC, commissioning original works that confront the reality of war and the resilience of Congolese communities facing a brutal insurgency by the M23 rebel group.

Flock is preparing to roll out a new feature: Its gunshot detection devices will begin listening for voices in “distress.” www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The easiest way to show your newsroom is actually thinking about AI isn't the 50th summarization tool or chatbot. It's automating the jobs people don't want to do. Like, bluesky's favourite: alt text! I wrote about how we built this at the FT, with an interactive demo: tk.gg/posts/ai-alt...

Them: I know it's annoying, but for infusing the full flavor you should steep your herbal tea mix for at least 5 min POV 24h later, you randomly look at the untouched infusion

And now the IWF is proposing ‘upload prevention’ 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.iwf.org.uk/media/21rpo2... @mariafarrell.bsky.social

incredible investigation by @972mag.com – and an indictment of western media outlets who have disseminated fictionalized visualizations created by the Israeli army in order to justify the destruction of civilian infrastructure

NEW Paragon target identified in Italy: Francesco Caltagirone, one of the country's most prominent businessman, at the center of a major banking operation involving the government @faffa42.bsky.social on @irpimedia.eu has the scoop - with @lastampa.bsky.social irpimedia.irpi.eu/caltagirone-...

“Today, the European Commission published guidelines to support the effective implementation of the Regulation on transparency and targeting of political advertising, which will become fully applicable as of 10 October.” ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

NEW Prominent Italian businessman among the targets of Paragon spyware 🧵 Francesco Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31. He has been at the center of a major banking operation involving the government. @faffa42.bsky.social on @irpimedia.eu irpimedia.irpi.eu/prominent-it...

I'm in absolute awe at the level of absolute chaos in the Italian spyware case irpimedia.irpi.eu/prominent-it...

Thank God, the ambiguity was unbearable.

As rebels seize their towns, spoken-word artists battle censorship and violence. Read:

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

The tribunal also made clear that Clearview’s activities involve 'behavioural monitoring' and so they couldn't escape GDPR. That's an important finding - especially as we see more use of AI and biometrics to track people on - and offline.

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

Who would ever think that IBM would stoop so low as to profit from aiding a despotic regime in oppressing its own citizens

[Great post] "The most important part of a system is often the person who keeps it from breaking today" blog.ronbronson.com/design-as-re...

BREAKING: Clearview have been told that - *shockingly* - the UK GDPR applies to their indefensible business of selling your face to foreign law enforcement agencies, after PI intervened in a recent legal case. awo.agency/articles/upp...

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month. But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

This fine highlights what anyone who uses the internet knows: practically every company is tracking your online behavior. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Disinformation, now in 3D.

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE 🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Two years into Israel's war in Gaza, the international legal system has been thrown into crisis by what law professor Tom Dannenbaum calls “the backlash of the powerful”. Read our latest Q&A:

This from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social's excellent book "The Tech Coup" remains an evergreen statement.

“If these narratives were spreading organically through politicians and citizens who genuinely share their beliefs, that would be about democratic debate. Instead, what we’re witnessing is the hijacking of Moldova’s information ecosystem through artificial armies…”

We shouldn’t have to say this in 2025: hunting human beings is illegal––like many of Frontex’s activities, from cooperating with the Hellenic Coastguard to sharing the location of migrant boats with Libya, for which we have taken the agency to Court. www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...