Gotta hand it to @tommctague.bsky.social for this doubly timely cover

The official statement on this from the Research Funders Policy Group was published today: wellcome.org/about-us/pos... Noteworthy that they say only "enterprise data protected" AI tools will be used in processing grant applications (i.e. not the free ones..)

For all my Open Source DNS friends: Nominet DNS Fund opens second application window - Nominet https://nominet.uk/news/nominet-dns-fund-opens-second-application-window/

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show internet connectivity has been knocked out in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea, amid power outages following overnight Ukrainian drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure 🔌

The Italian Prime Minister has now seen off three British Prime Ministers

Video and transcript from my talk at QCon London are now online. Thanks @qconferences.com! www.infoq.com/presentation...

Will the UK wise up? #nhs #palantir #privacy #digitalsovereignty UK reviewing Palantir's NHS contract amid pressure to use break clause | Reuters www.reuters.com/business/hea...

This is very well put.

Call for Workshops & Hackathons — IMC 2026! 🎉 We invite proposals for Workshops and Hackathons co-located with the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany. #IMC2026 #NetworkMeasurement

Hey @proton.me — I'll be cancelling in the next 24h unless you explain yourselves.

When people say 'AI isn't a bubble because the technology isn't going away', it just shows they don't know what a bubble is. The internet didn't go away. Railways didn't go away. Tulips didn't go away. An asset can be overvalued, even if its useful.

That interview is available here for all to listen. This is a gift link. Would greatly appreciate your help in getting it to a wider audience. Perhaps it will get more coverage! 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI-reviews seem strikingly good at the AAAI-26 peer+AI review experiment arxiv.org/abs/2604.13940

Very cool analysis of the submissions to a major management journal that shows how much the system of science, built for humans, is under strain as a result of AI. AI can be used to do better science or it can be used to just do more stuff. The danger is that "more" is winning due to incentives.

a picture is, it turns out, worth a lot more than a thousand words

“the future of European rightwing parties lies in Europe” and that relations with other Europeans “are always more important to us than any special hotline to Moscow, Beijing, or Washington” -Jean-Pascal Hohm, AfD’s youth leader.

Explicación (breve) de que es Bluesky y de la caída del servicio por un ataque de DDoS

"For services to the European project, there should be a statue of Nigel Farage in Brussels, at least the equal of Manneken Pis in dignity and craftsmanship."

Personally I think writing formal proofs is one of the best applications of AI, and I think we're going to see a lot more of it in the future, as I wrote a few months ago (martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a...). I've adjusted my own research agenda for the coming years to help make this happen.

Interesting working paper on effect of CEO having connections ot Epstein. Makes me want to break things papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My cartoon in the first issue of Now Voyager, a new print magazine dedicated to long form international reporting, photography and art. Plus cartoons!

<<Trump was “rather hysterical”>> sounds accurate

Top cover 10/10

"(...) the barrier to scale is not competition policy, but the fact that the single market remains incomplete."

Chat Control 1.0 has been rejected by the #EU Parliament. Good news! www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Standards work is notoriously hard to track. Let’s explore if grounding AI in working group records can make that history more accessible. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/03/25/using_ai

The Ministry of Justice of Finland has decided to halt the plans to move Finland’s election platform to Amazon Web Services due to the changed international political situation over the past year yle.fi/a/74-20217101

I wrote about the ICML LLM witch hunt and why it's paradigmatic of the absurd bureaucratic scaling of peer review.

Spain: football-match-induced online censorship regularly prevents installation of Postgres on Docker for fear of illicit streaming https://alecmuffett.com/article/151241 #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #spain

USA bans foreign-made consumer network routers, considering those produced outside the US a national security risk, and prohibits them from being imported or sold. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

Why did UK trade policy fail? Unrealistic expectations, tariff and secrecy obsessions, poor appointments, pressure from Number 10 for announcements over actual substance of them, difficult global environment, lack of good objectives - a lot really.

Big mistakes are being made.

Did a bubble meet a prick?

Good on ENTSO report on the iberian blackout: - renevables not to blame - renewables and could have absorved more of the tension excess that caused the KO - thermal power plants absorved less than agreed (and paid for)

This reads quite dangerous - according to @politico.com, Putin has proposed to Trump to stop intelligence sharing with Iran if the US stops intelligence sharing with Ukraine. According to the report, the US rejected this, but for the Europeans it is quite a poisonous idea:

Survey finds that 86% of Europeans think a sudden US move to restrict EU access to digital services is "plausible" and "shouldn’t be ruled out," and 59% called it “already a real and concrete risk.” Another case of European public opinion being ahead of its leaders. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

"commoditization and decentralization shift the balance of power. Dependency creates leverage, whether it's a country's gas supply or a company's cloud provider, and the engineering choices we make determine who holds that leverage"

Some very exciting news - it looks like the working group for AT Protocol at the IETF has been approved! (though not formalized in the datatracker just yet) This is a big milestone in the standards process. But is also just the start of the actual process - years of meetings & work ahead!

Meanwhile EU looks at US and wonders how Americans never thought leopards would eat their face

Menos golpes de pecho contra Trump y más defender la arquitectura crítica del estado del trumpismo. Palantir debe ser vetada de un contrato así por razón de seguridad nacional, no seamos tan pardillos forbes.es/ultima-hora/...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Mick Stevens. #NewYorkerCartoons

Hyperloop. Finally

3. We need to learn from the way the web died. The web is organised under a form of completely libertarian decentralisation. This means that the moment that a centralising force emerged, there was no collective mechanism to organise ways of containing it — and so you get runaway concentration.

I wrote up a piece on how standards are made, because of some folks being very negative about the grant on other social networks: writings.thisismissem.social/how-standard...

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"Sovereign cloud" by US Big Tech here in Europe is their last desperate attempt to keep this cash cow (and our data) for themselves and the US government. Kudos to @berthubert.bsky.social for putting this whitewashing of risky US-controlled services in the spotlight.

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects. Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet. www.gov.uk/government/c...