Two of the top bosses of the BBC resigned this week, after allegations in a dossier claimed Panorama had altered a Trump quote. One problem: that dossier altered the Trump quote, too www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Once again, I am asking the powers that be to have a basic grasp of how the Internet and actual online safety works. It isn't VPNs which are putting people at risk... Signed, a journalist who has been covering cybersecurity for well over a decade.

Transformer is hiring! We're looking for a senior policy reporter to help us grow our coverage of the power and politics of AI. Based in or near DC, I think it will be a really fun opportunity for a reporter to get stuck in and make the beat their own! www.transformernews.ai/p/senior-pol...

Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily. This is not good sign for our polity.

It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?

Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

This is the woman who made a joking video about SNAP, then was featured in a Fox News story that didn't mention it was a joke, then went viral, then was labeled AI. I found her original post and she shared this in response

Enjoyed editing this look by @duncanweldon.bsky.social at what history's tech backlashes tell us about what to expect with AI: www.transformernews.ai/p/history-su...

Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...

This preliminary injunction hearing in Chicago is just like... normie white liberal after normie white liberal describing how federal agents beat them, shot at them with pepper balls, pointed guns at them, threw flashbangs and tear gas at them

Call to action here from @samgregory.bsky.social that it would be nice if OpenAI and others paid attention to.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Oh no.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

“Let’s be clear, since a lot of people seem to be finding that difficult: most people who get upset if they see black or brown faces in adverts are racists. There are few other reasons for seeing diversity in advertising to bother anyone.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...

I find this dynamic, where MAGA types have begun breaking with Trump over AI, so fascinating. @nickywoolf.bsky.social's dive into it www.transformernews.ai/p/how-maga-l... just has me thinking about this meme...

“I think it was the first time in recent memory I’ve seen the tech industry suffer a defeat like that.” Read @nickywoolf.bsky.social's dive into how MAGA's embrace of AI Safety is causing trouble for Trump's newly cosy relationship with Big Tech. www.transformernews.ai/p/how-maga-l...

“Can you set an AI on a general task of, ‘Break into this network’ and have it do so? ... the results aren’t great ... They’re not zero, but they’re not great.” Read @stokel.bsky.social on why experts aren't — for now — too worried about catastrophic AI-enabled cyberattacks.

Great piece on Transformer by @jamesrball.com .... "As ever, there will be silver linings and small mercies — but there is little point sugarcoating it. A crash, whenever it may come, is likely to be brutal."

🚨 Very pleased to say that Moya Lothian-McLean has become the first Managing Editor at @millmedia.bsky.social. Along with @cameronbarr.bsky.social, who joined recently as Investigations Editor, we're building a formidable team of senior editors. And editors are the 🔑!

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

*sighs* open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/n...

There is literally already a relativey decent example of some mitigation already done by Google for Veo 3 in the shape of SynthID that would probably be quite easy to implement...

Nearly 50 news and media organizations have signed an amicus brief supporting AP in the ongoing legal case over White House press access. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41932/gov.uscourts.cadc.41932.2139056.0.pdf

IMPORTANT All freelancers, self-employed, creatives This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices Deadline to respond is 23 October 1/2

This is very good. And is a pretty close reflection of my views, too.

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Boston Globe follows up on my reporting last Friday, which placed the formation of a new ICE surveillance unit in Vermont. The Globe asks and answers the question: "Why the hell Vermont?" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/m...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

It is at least mildly interesting that Bluesky, the supposed social media home of antiracism, appears to have a big old antisemitism problem.

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

NEW from me: Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

OpenAI's new evaluation helps to ground conversations about AI-driven job loss in actual model performance, rather than fear and wild speculation. It also shows that “Will AI take our jobs?” isn’t a yes or no question.

It's interesting, and tbh surprising, that the government's new AI minister actually seems to get what is a pretty complex, but hugely important, brief. www.transformernews.ai/p/kanishka-n...

“For example, low-cost drones, often guided by AI, are now responsible for more casualties than artillery — and inventing, flying and buying them is highly decentralised.” Freeland’s piece waxing poetic about the war is….something. www.ft.com/content/8d59...

Jonn's pitch to found the Cumbrian People's Liberation Front below.

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

This week’s column: on Labour returning to its comfort zone and its old hobby horses, with the same results it always gets when it does that:

The amount of shooting yourself in the face here is amazing. Solar is better economically, even if it weren't also clean. Just hobbling the US economy for a crazed ideology.

Appalachian here! Coal hasn't been an economic force in half a century, at least. This isn't going to bring jobs to Kentucky and West Virginia, because most of this is automated and has been increasingly so since the '50s. This will lead to untold environmental devastation for the region, though

Ever wondered why lots of serious people are genuinely worried about losing control of AI? Well, this is the big reason: www.transformernews.ai/p/automated-...

I’ve been struck by how the British far right is using deepfake technology — less to deceive about specific events, more to tap into fascistic affects & desires. This is really frightening. My dispatch from grim corners of the Internet, for @lrb.co.uk online. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Bloody hell Russia launches major drone, missile attack on Ukraine, still ongoing - www.reuters.com/business/aer...

What a totally original idea!

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There's lots we don't know about how AI is affecting our brains and how we think, but @celiaford.bsky.social has pulled together pretty much everything we do, which you can read here: www.transformernews.ai/p/no-chatgpt...

“If Joe Biden had given a speech saying just a fraction of what Trump did, American news would be dominated for weeks by calls for him to be replaced, via the 25th Amendment if necessary. Trump being Trump, it will likely be shrugged off at home.” inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...