I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong: www.wired.com/story/silico...

Alaa Abd el-Fattah has not been defeated.

China exports censorship tech to authoritarian regimes – aided by EU firms: www.ftm.eu/articles/how...

NEW on our website How journalists are covering Gaza from afar through #OSINT aid flights and trusted contacts on the ground. By @marinaadami.bsky.social ft Nagham Mohanna, Plestia Alaqad @manisha.bsky.social and @clothildegouj.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/osint-a...

‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda: www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...

EXCLUSIVE: Investigation proves Palestinians indiscriminately shot by Israeli military near food sites across 50 days, from yours truly for the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

An Anonymous Iranian Reporter on Life in Tehran: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology: truthout.org/articles/us-...

Why opponents of the Online Safety Act aren’t ‘on Jimmy Savile’s side’: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...:

OH NO HOW WILL WE ENTER THE METAVERSE WITHOUT THE AI-GLASSES??? :((((((((

Traffic Apocalypse: www.cjr.org/analysis/tra...

Here's a fun (terrifying) one. A journalist was trying to find a specific article he'd written and couldn't find it on Google. At all. Someone had tricked Google into de-listing it entirely.

It's the last episode of 'Overnight,' my tech show for Radio Raheem, before we the summer break. This month, I dive into the enshittification of everything, false flags popping up everywhere, and how reality feels like it has Coldplay as its soundtrack. Here: www.radioraheem.it/overnight/ov...

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It said it was starving Gaza over and over again. It has done so systematically - with the full complicity of the West. My column on a crime committed in plain sight 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

News in India is being erased from the internet..

A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

What Do Journalists Owe Their Sources—and Their Audiences? www.cjr.org/analysis/wha...

Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land' killed in occupied West Bank: www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...

In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

Proton is launching a privacy-focused AI chatbot: www.theverge.com/news/711860/...

How Birmingham Became Home to the Shadowy Side of Techno: daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report...

A network of local officials in Italy want to turn their cities into laboratories for the vehicles of tomorrow in the hope of catching up with the US and China. www.wired.com/story/60-ita...

In the final episode of our podcast "Machines That Fail Us", host @philipdisalvo.bsky.social discusses with @noman-bashir.bsky.social, researcher @csail.mit.edu, the often-overlooked environmental footprint of AI’s relentless hunger for data and computing power. #AI 🎧 Listen now: unisg.link/j3k

AI summaries cause ‘devastating’ drop in audiences, online news media told: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

BBC and news agencies warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation: www.bbc.com/news/article...

The choice of language alone is enough to invalidate this nonsense. “Woke AI?” Please shut up. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Finally, @merbroussard.bsky.social available in Italian: tamuedizioni.com

Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Billionaires Destroyed American News Media On Purpose: www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... @jayvanbavel.bsky.social : @theguardian.com

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

The struggle over AI in journalism is escalating: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/inside-the... @bcmerchant.bsky.social

AI empires are here - what are they after? | Nick Srnicek: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwf_...

Who Decides Our Tomorrow: Challenging the New Tech Gospel: www.linkedin.com/pulse/who-de... @codastory.bsky.social

Controindagini forensi: considerazioni a partire dal G8 di Genova: www.machina-deriveapprodi.com/post/contro-...

Generative AI and elections: why you should worry more about humans than AI systems: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/generat...

This is a bit outside the usual work-related updates I share on this platform, but I wanted to take a moment to talk about something very close to my heart. Since 2019, I’ve had the honor of serving on the board of DIG | Documentari Inchieste Giornalismi: www.dig-awards.org

A language model built for the public good: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

xAI announces $200m US military deal after Grok chatbot had Nazi meltdown: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Journalist says 4,000 fake AI news websites created to game Google algorithms: pressgazette.co.uk/news/french-... @pressgazette.co.uk

Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy unrulynatures.ch/Tomorrow-Mos...

My latest article for Radiotelevisione svizzera (RSI), the Swiss public service in Italian, is an analysis of how the rise of generative artificial intelligence is reinforcing platformization trends that penalize links and access to the open web. Read it here (🇮🇹): www.rsi.ch/info/scienza...

Il governo israeliano sta comprando annunci su Google per screditare Francesca Albanese: www.fanpage.it/innovazione/...

🧐 OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. www.reuters.com/business/med...