Big story from me and Aman Sethi about Palantir today. The headline should speak for itself. www.opendemocracy.net/exclusive-ho...

Read our latest coverage on Palantir's work with the NHS here 👇 @fangsonggongzhu.bsky.social www.opendemocracy.net/palantir-is-...

Our investigative tech reporter @fangsonggongzhu.bsky.social was on the @mediastormpod.bsky.social podcast this week discussing Palantir, surveillance states, and more. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts ⤵️ open.spotify.com/episode/7vOi...

OpenAI has put its UK AI infrastructure project on hold. Shocker. Seeing as whoever I asked over the past few months could give me no information about the project, and there were also no planning documents online -- as I said, shocker. www.politico.eu/article/open...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUMA... Why is this glowy pic of ex-CMA Chair Marcus Bokkerink so Beauty School Dropout-coded

Understanding the UK's efforts to regulate for online safety can feel difficult. In a new article for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, I go into why you should know about new efforts to amend the Online Safety Act -- and why they're probably not the best idea. www.techpolicy.press/uk-seeks-mor...

We need a ban on profiles on Sam Altman. No more fan fiction about his mercurial personality, ambiguous intentions and youthful appearance www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A former Amazon exec heading up the Competitions and Marketing Authority is a recipe for disaster. If you've got questions about why that's the case, our tech reporting fellow Jade-Ruyu Yan wants to hear from you. Drop her a message! https://prdisaster.substack.com/p/why-you-should-care-about

Given that most of us have lives, I'd be surprised if you were closely following the appointment of ex-Amazon exec Doug Gurr to the UK's competition watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority. Here's my case about why we should care, for PR Disaster: prdisaster.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...

We've got an ex-Amazon guy leading the UK competition watchdog. He downplays his Amazon ties. The petty thing would be to say that he's the director of the Natural History Museum, which partners with AWS. I did that, but I asked: do these connections matter? www.opendemocracy.net/en/doug-gurr...

Really pleased to see the Mail covering the harms of self swab kits but I wish they’d drop the “Mail revealed…” line when my investigation came out 6 months before theirs DIY evidence kits are a risk for rape victims, police say www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work

On International Women’s Day yesterday I was thinking about how On This Day five years ago a police chief texted me weirdo messages in the middle of the night trying to intimidate me into not writing about his lil policing program southsideweekly.com/who-is-the-c...

is everyone on glue

A former Amazon boss will now lead the UK watchdog that investigates and penalises companies like Amazon, for the next five years. People are worried. Read more about it here: www.opendemocracy.net/en/cma-chair... My newest question: why are we avoiding mentioning the word Amazon?

Nothing to see here: Ex-Amazon UK boss to lead competition watchdog

The government keeps going on and onnnn about how the UK's economy is struggling because we don't have enough Big Tech investment. Enough alreadyyyy just admit that you like each other, don't be embarrassed. <3

So good of former Amazon exec. Doug Gurr to do charity for the Competitions&Markets Authority when he's got a full-time job at the Natural History Museum. Love to see giving like this.

Today I waltzed around a data centre to see wtf it was all about. (I was kindly shown around a data centre owned by Redcentric by the director of facilities Paul Hone. Redcentric is a managed IT service provider that only operates in the UK.)

Exciting news for @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/en/tech-repo...

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

Not to be unhelpful but @microsoft.com if you're only starting to be community-first now, are your previous developments community-second, community-third, community-nth? Sad face. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

I'm a fan of a dossier, particularly about AI developments & a company's actions over decades, both which can be such an information overload. From The Midas Project, a look into VC firm's a16z's "notorious" investments & efforts to shape AI policy: www.modelrepublic.org/articles/a16...

Why is seemingly any information about patient feedback withheld from patients? The Care Quality Commission, regulator of health & social care in the UK, denied a FOIA request I made for patient complaints about a hospital here. I wrote about it here: prdisaster.substack.com/p/who-do-our...

What are politicians doing on YouTube — and why is it kind of cringe? "Liberal technocrats — from Ottawa to DC to Berlin — are still trying to figure out what" being on platforms such as YouTube means, said Ben Grinspan, VP of Cultural Strategy at MSL Group. prdisaster.substack.com/p/what-are-p...

What are US cities doing to vaccinate people for mpox? It's hard to know. The CDC has stopped tracking vaccinations & nationwide communication has died down. With the arrival of another strain, here's what one city has been doing, in the @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/11/m...