This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

In Opinion When Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica on Tuesday, the island "experienced something near to the worst tropical cyclone impacts our planet can produce," writes meteorologist Alan Gerard. "I have little doubt that climate change is contributing to more significant meteorological events."

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social

This is great work from @samdoak.bsky.social and @bvdm.bsky.social on Gaza's four Israeli-backed militias news.sky.com/story/reveal...

A new startup backed by one of the biggest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is building a service that allows clients to “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.”

"Not convinced" = the author thinks it's absolute balls. Why is there so much generosity of spirit in commentary about this grotesquely unnecessary tech? www.wired.com/story/web-br...

NEW: Trump has pardoned Binance founder CZ, wiping away one of the US’s most significant crackdowns on crypto crime. The pardon is emblematic of Trump’s approach to clemency: CZ hired lawyers & lobbyists with Trump ties, while Binance struck a business deal with the Trump family’s crypto company.

The Israeli military is exerting control over more of Gaza than expected from the ceasefire deal with Hamas, w/ @emmapengelly.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For Palestinians, a line on a map can be the difference between life and death. BBC Verify found Israel is controlling more of Gaza than agreed in the ceasefire deal. Israel said anyone who crossed its "yellow line" would be “met with fire”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Full list of donors for Trumps ballroom is about as surprising as an Oscars best picture shortlist... meidasnews.com/news/read-fu...

🇻🇦 🇬🇧 VIDEO King Charles and Pope Leo pray together in historic first King Charles III becomes the first head of the Church of England to pray publicly with a pope in a Vatican service led by Leo XIV.

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

The Israeli military is exerting control over more of Gaza than expected from the ceasefire deal with Hamas, w/ @emmapengelly.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

One new press corps member, the Washington Reporter, says its coverage will remain "as tough and objective as ever" and also that Hegseth's "tenure has been nothing short of transformative," with "perfect execution," "flawless coordination" and a "steady hand" washingtonreporter.news/p/editorial-...

AI misrepresents news 45% of the time. Hasn't stopped every major search provider enthusiastically adopting it www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as #climatecrisis warms country - only Antarctica now free of the insects www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dernière enquête @lemonde.fr sur le bulldozer D9, un engin de chantier Caterpillar militarisé par l’armée israélienne – en grande partie responsable de la démolition massive de la bande de Gaza. www.lemonde.fr/videos/video...

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all. Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

This is what has become of the ceasefire in Gaza. Smoke plumes earlier today east of Khan Younis (POV is ~31.362011, 34.298249)

BBC live page on this incident: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Breaking: An Israeli military official says Hamas has carried out multiple strikes against Israeli forces beyond the yellow line, including RPG and sniper fire. (The yellow line is the line to which Israeli forces withdrew during this first phase of the ceasefire).

The president of the USA has posted a video of himself, dressed as a king, taking an actual, literal crap on Americans. No interpretation required.

One commenter replied, “based song choice,” which was liked by the Border Patrol account. Another commenter wrote, “if you know you know.”

Reporters walked out of the Pentagon on Wednesday after news outlets refused to sign new press rules laid out by Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense. The new rules raise the prospect of punishment for simply requesting information on matters of public interest. Read more: nyti.ms/48sfl6q

Some gems in this: "...a fairly unanimous judgment from the expert speakers: the Turing Test is pretty meaningless, and always was." And from Gary Marcus: '“Imitation is not the essence of intelligence”. In that sense, we don’t have AI even today.'

Hamas seeks to reassert its authority in Gaza www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

"Little lungs are still paying for Dieselgate every day,” says Jemima Hartshorn, the founder of @mumsforlungs.bsky.social Piece by @dpcarrington.bsky.social on the DieselGate scandal that continues to harm our air. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?

Remember when Republicans got mad that the federal government might be CENSORING political content on social media? Remember when they spent three years holding hearings trying to prove it happened? And threatened to jail anyone involved? How times change!

Can relate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On the virtues of regulation lithub.com/how-american...

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

We might have thought a "post truth" world would stem from politicians presenting "alternative facts", or mis- and disinfo going viral. Turns out AI is doing the job more insidiously and comprehensively than that. Society has embraced a technology which is fundamentally incompatible with truth.

Great line: "I am much more concerned about the decline of thinking people than I am about the rise of thinking machines." www.theargumentmag.com/p/you-have-1...

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data. Including some users passports & DLs Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic. Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

Teargas deployed and multiple arrests made this afternoon in Chicago

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Two tanks, gunfire and smoke plumes from explosions in a video filmed from IDF position in western Gaza City, 400m from the (no-longer operational) Al Quds hospital building. This area is now an IDF stronghold as they continue to advance in the city. Video uploaded 30 Sept. POV 31.507616, 34.435320

Six excavators moving on Gaza City from IDF held Netzarim Corridor. Smoke from distant explosions rises over the cityscape. (Uploaded 30 Sept. POV 0-10s: 31.491255, 34.434879, 10s-end: 31.492520, 34.435776)

Important investigation from BBC Panorama uncovering attitudes of some in the Met police www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ukraine's strategic attacks on oil refineries causing problems for Russia, from @olgar.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Maxar has become Vantor. New logo etc. Still apparently not on Bluesky though. vantor.com/blog/vantor-...

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

'Partners will need to be prepared for the use of US military power in a way that is deeply uncomfortable' writes @mtsavill.bsky.social in the latest RUSI Commentary.

Donald Trump posted a weird fake video about medbeds not because he believes what was in it, but because the people who are into conspiracy theories like medbeds are at the core of his movement. Also: I used a medbed! It was not good. open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

BBC Verify tasked new satellite imagery to track the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City in near real time. What we found was Israeli military presence deep into the city and closing in on its last remaining residents. Reporting with @benedictgarman.com @mesutersoz.com @herdjemimah.bsky.social