www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/m... these thing are so easy to break

Is this the way the world ends? - www.ft.com/content/e79f... via @financialtimes.com

BBC News - Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial told - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”

PLATFORM POWER AND EDINBURGH'S GIG ECONOMY Sat 21 Mar 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Round The World Studios, EH6 6RS www.tickettailor.com/events/scotl...

America must follow China in treating data as an asset - www.ft.com/content/897f... via @financialtimes.com

ICYMI: Our Invitation to Tender for a proposed People's Forum on Advanced AI Assistants. Full details below. We have also developed some FAQs for potential applicants ➡️https://adalovelaceinstitute.org/assistants-tender-faqs Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2026.

European alternatives to Visa and Mastercard ‘urgently’ needed, says banking chief - www.ft.com/content/fcc2... via @financialtimes.com

Hiring by Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google has risen sharply in India in recent months. This trend coincides with the growing restrictions to the H-1B visa, often used by tech companies to bring international talent to the U.S. restofworld.org/2026/h1b-vis...

“Your data is yours and yours always,” said Oura CEO Tom Hale. This doesn't mean... anything? Oura data *isn't* end-to-end encrypted, it's stored in a way that allows Oura *staff* to access sensitive health data, and Oura's spokesperson has admitted it has received government demands for user data!

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

If your study is framed as asking whether "AI" does X as well as humans do, it's fundamentally misguided and I'd argue not scientifically sound. A short 🧵>>

Love this cesspit of the new internet, at least real people don't need to go there. fortune.com/2026/02/02/m...

1990s Smart towns return www.gov.uk/government/n...

ended up introducing my (non-linguistics) students to discourse analysis in my class on AI and education and we‘ll be doing more reading of curséd government press releases

Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won business and shook markets - www.ft.com/content/a755... via @financialtimes.com

"Around a third of countries attending a military AI summit agreed on Thursday to a declaration on how to govern deployment of the technology in warfare, but military heavyweights China and the U.S. opted out." www.reuters.com/business/aer...

“While ‘analogue inspo’ may seem like another TikTok fad, I think it’s a breath of fresh air. It’s a much-needed outlet for the hobby-less, the bored and the young people whose grip on reality has been loosened by over-reliance on ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI.”

John Mearsheimer fights to sift AI propaganda videos from his authentic propaganda videos... "some depicted him making contentious remarks about heated geopolitical rivalries" - so hard to tell them apart. 'Whack-a-mole: US academic fights to purge his AI deepfakes' www.france24.com/en/live-news...

BBC News - I’m obsessed with bar livestreams. All the drama of a night out - from my sofa www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.theverge.com/report/87417... @susansegfault.bsky.social

KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings - www.ft.com/content/c891... via @financialtimes.com

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands - BBC News

The Dark Side of the AI Detecting and combating the criminal use of AI Friday, Feb 6 - 3:10 pm to 5:30 pm Modern information technology has created a vast scope for new harm on a global scale. Join Ben Collier and James Stevenson to discuss Book your space: edin.ac/3Zh2Aps

BBC News - Sainsbury's ejects man misidentified as offender www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PROPHECY is about who gets to decide the future we aim for. And how AI has become the new Oracle of Delphi. #AIEthics If you want to see this conversation in the public sphere, please pre-order the #book here: 3/ US: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692... UK: amzn.eu/d/02mjhQUr

In our latest research, we look at popular AI model's answers to questions about public services including public health, tax and benefits. But how reliable are they? Find out more.

📈 Digital Public Infrastructure and Public Value Digital Public Infrastructure (#DPI) can maximise public value creation but must be properly created, governed, and regulated. 🔗 Read the paper by IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @eaves.ca, and Beatriz Vasconcellos here: buff.ly/7D3OEPB

Concerned that disclosure could cause harm? Evidence is key🗝️ This month’s Decisions & Learning 🎓highlights the need for clear detail when authorities claim harm. Find out more 👉 tinyurl.com/JanNews2026 #Newletter #FOI #Scottishinformationcommissioner

www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-econo... Nov 2025

News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing? theconversation.com/news-sites-a...

The truth about the ‘blue-collar boom’ ft.trib.al/T6PaNJF

New publication on AI, climate change, and justice for the global south link.springer.com/article/10.1...