Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

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1. What are these objects? 2. Are they supposed to be edible? 3. What exactly makes them Christmassy? So many questions

Easily the most thoughtful take on AI in education I’ve read

Encountered quite a convincing scam tonight. Nice Geordie lady called, apparently from my credit card company - flagging suspicious activity and asking me about transactions and logins that sounded off. Nice and detailed, professional tone. She read me the last 4 digits of my card number.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

Big news this evening This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Chairing #whitehallgovsec again today. Stuart Frost observes that organisations’ lack of action on supply chain security means we’ve accepted the risk without even knowing anything about it

Lol

Get off social media and do more of this sort of thing. The world would be a better place if we did

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR).

By @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social

Mitigate this risk by not owning one

A Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western AI tools with Russian propaganda: AI chatbots — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o, xAI’s Grok, Mistral’s le Chat, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, & Perplexity’s answer engine have been affected. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...

Trying to solve the wrong problem can have really terrible consequences

Due to the layoffs I am afraid that we have had to take over the running of the US National Parks. We are updating the park regulations but for now the most important thing people can do before visiting a national park is to marinade themselves for 12 hours in olive oil, lime juice & garlic.

Let's not

Turns out that tech is geopolitics

I've absolutely had it with LinkedIn

More good things!

Good things 👇 Please now can we finally stop the 15 year old arguments about ID and data sharing www.gov.uk/government/p...

Fantastic

Ouch

"Payouts by private companies will have to be reported to the government and could be blocked if they are made to sanctioned groups or foreign states. Reporting ransomware attacks will also be made mandatory if the proposals become law." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Testing my new wheels by taking the double bass for a festive run round the block

A machine to cure cancer? Right.

That is a lot of limbs

This is a disaster. And from the tech industry and its users, deafening silence.

Nice to read some good news. I’m hopeful this signals a more data-literate future for Blighty

Pro-Russian attackers are targeting UK local authorities again

London looks pretty festive, but you can’t argue with Manchester

Systems owners owe a moral duty of care to users, particularly when there is such a gross imbalance of power

As ever, @computerweekly.bsky.social puts in the hard yards to bring B2B tech abuse to light. I doubt these cases are unique to the Post Office. Any big organisation with small, dependent partners must be especially alive to this type of systems risk. Supply chain security works both ways

Interesting article

'Major incident' declared at Merseyside hospital after 'cyber security' issue www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

💯 this. Too much of my feed is people complaining about other people they don't like coming here. Unsure what exact combination of keywords will let me mute said moans, however.

Performing in this today. I had no idea there was such a thing as a bass oboe! Unsurprisingly, it’s a massive oboe. Not as good as the double bass, as you can’t eat crisps during the rests. www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/hol...

Underrated reason why most M&A activity destroys shareholder value

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Show me the organisation of TfL's size and complexity that's immune to a serious cyber attack. That's why we talk about cyber resilience, people. And FGS stop with the "heads will roll" nonsense! Scapegoating creates a toxic environment, attrition of skilled staff, and weaker cyber security.

It’s conference season! I have three in two days and will be judging their relative merits on the basis of Christmas decorations. This wins hands down. Also, there were interesting discussions about digital public services and inclusion. #thinkdigigov

Fascinating thread. Looks like the US and Europe are set to diverge in emphasis #cybersecurity

Found this guy behind the sofa. Mood of late 2024

This would be a good response to about 80% of the posts in my Bluesky feed

Suitcases with shopping trolley wheels: what fresh hell is this?

"The Xiaomi fryer and another by Aigostar sent people’s personal data to servers in China, although this was flagged in the privacy notice, the consumer testing body found." Oh, well that's alright then

Let’s look on the bright side, most hackers can’t be arsed to attack fax machines

Unaccountable tech in the dock - fascinating to see how this plays out www.reuters.com/legal/delta-...