New polls show that in Switzerland, roughtly every 4th person can be classified as somewhat or strongly disillusioned with democracy (“demokratiemüde”). Among voters of the far-right SVP, the share of those who are strongly disillusioned with democracy is the highest sgg-ssup.ch/news/neue-st...

This is either brilliant or scary: Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA. BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!

To mark the birthday of Vincent van Gogh—iconic modern artist born today in 1853—a thread of some of my favorite, relatively lesser known works by him. First up, the stunning multi-colored variegation of his Tree Trunks in the Grass, made in last months of his life krollermuller.nl/en/vincent-v...

Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Working with web search data? Ever wanted to get access to historical data on what was trending in different locations - beyond the 7 days of such history that Google's Trending Now provides? We've got you covered with the new dataset paper, accepted at ICWSM, preprint here arxiv.org/abs/2603.21871

I've been asked over the last few days/weeks what I think will happen on April 12th in Orbán's 🇭🇺 (and the aftermath), so here's my assessment, looking at everything as it stands now 🧵 tldr: It's complicated, and no one really knows (and those who say they do are either lying or overly confident) 1/

New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter... 1/

Just heard an undecided voter on the radio. And they will ask ChatGPT what to vote 🗳️ 🇩🇰 #fv26 #dkpol #dkmedier PLEASE DON’T Take a vote advice test Read party program bullets Read a few news stories Consult a responsible chatbot for topic information Talk to your network Do not just use chatbots

Very happy to be a part of this!

New paper out! How can we study people's web search motivations in a way that's anchored in people's actual search behaviour? We suggest a survey design inspired by a combination of diary studies and data donation approaches. Led by Elsa Lichtenegger out now at CHIIR doi.org/10.1145/3786...

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

what is it with white men and this bit where you go "i asked my anthropomorphized excel spreadsheet if it was alive. what it said shocked me."

Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are ‘less than 1%’ of traffic

For weeks, Russians have been bracing for a nationwide government block of Telegram, expected in April. It appears to have come early. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

It was a typo ffs

I first saw this in a recommended post on Instagram and immediately went checking this isn't a fake quote because it sounded too unhinged even for Altman somehow. But no, he really said this.

Hamburg HB, warum

De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper, recently published an interview with a woman promoting €1,600 seats on private evacuation flights from Dubai. Bellingcat found that her image was likely AI-generated, and flight data suggests no such plane took off. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Copilot “can help with routine Senate work, including drafting and editing documents, summarizing information, preparing talking points and briefing material, and conducting research and analysis,” the memo says.

There’s no handbook or program for how to talk to a friend or family member who is falling into AI psychosis. So after many people contacted us clearly suffering from these delusions, we spoke to mental health experts. Here’s what they suggest: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

Now that’s a corridor!

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

I just find it all so tiresome, because LLMs are so horribly suited for what they want them to do. It’s like if the military designated the Magic 8 Ball a supply chain risk. And the media responded by fawning over Mattel’s brave ethical stand, and wondering what the Origami Fortune Teller would do.

Switzerland is also one of the most politically exclusive democracies. New official data show that only ≈60% of all residents have political rights. And given Switzerland’s low voter turnout, a small minority (roughly a quarter of all residents who vote regularly) ends up deciding for the majority

The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights. bit.ly/4aE5uKa

Die 10 deutschsprachigen Accounts, die in den letzten 12 Monaten auf X die meisten Interaktionen gesammelt haben: Rechte Krawall-Blogger, Fake News-Schleudern, AfD-Politiker·innen und die Welt. meedia.de/news/beitrag...

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.

🚨📄🚨 LLMs are revolutionizing social and communication science. Tasks that used to require either complex technical skills or abundant resources for crowdsourced solutions, are now easily done with a prompt. While this speeds up research and facilitates www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court. Link in comments. #palantir #freemedia

"I'm going to say something I should never say, but I will anyway: you can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone."

when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:

Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation finds. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...

🧵 Matryoshka, Russian-state aligned bot network has introduced a hashtag HollywoodAgainstZelensky on X/Twitter yesterday. With deepfaked audio, multiple manipulated Cameo videos make celebrities to "demand" that European leaders force Zelensky to sign a peace treaty on Russia's terms.

Wisst ihr noch, die "Freiheitstrychler" aus der Pandemie, die sich für Freiheit einsetzen? Was machen die heute so? Sie reisen nach Moskau, um zu protestieren - und zwar gegen die Schweiz. Begleitet durch Russia Today.

Republik.ch trägt die finanziellen und rechtlichen Kosten/Risiken. Aber bitte spendet unbedingt auch an meine CO-Autor:innen der #Palantir-Recherche des WAV Recherchekollektiv, die alles initiiert haben! wav.info/support Für weiteren demokratie-relevanten Investigativjournalismus.

This looks really cool!

I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.

In Gewebeproben Alexej Nawalnys ist nach SPIEGEL-Informationen das Gift Epibatin gefunden worden. Für mehrere europäische Staaten steht damit fest: Der Putin-Kritiker wurde vor zwei Jahren in einem russischen Lager vergiftet.

Frontex arbeitet an einer „KI“, die zu Abschiebungen beraten soll. Da zeigen sich die unzureichenden Stellen der KI-Verordnung: Der Einsatz stelle kein hohes Risiko dar, so die Behörde netzpolitik.org/2026/migrati...

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

Die Moskauer Führung schottet die russische Gesellschaft weiter ab, nun bekommen das auch Studierende und Wissenschaftler zu spüren. Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst ist jetzt faktisch in Russland verboten.

Either he is a bad liar or dangerously deluded, and either one should be a sign that OpenAI should not be given the power, data, and control over our lives it is being given.