The inefficiencies of Europe’s paper-based bureaucracies are legendary. The rest of the continent should see Greece's digital transformation efforts as a call to action

Why sacrifice #privacy for artificial intentions when we have the #technology to take back control and declare our own intentions directly? That's the vision I explore in my new issue of my newsletter #WhiteMirror nicolas-zahn.ghost.io/white-mirror...

The only thing standing between you and generational wealth is, apparently, your level of shamelessness

Shots fired: spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen... Why the #IT community must do better and how it can do so

Great piece in @bindinghook.bsky.social on the #DigitalAge, where everything - including #sovereignty comes as a service... bindinghook.com/how-sovereig...

Everything is entirely too stupid and I need it to stop #SmartenUp

I just noticed my typo here but I think it's all the more evidence (!) for why a "two cultures" approach to AI is not very useful - sociotechnical impacts need to be understood hand-in-hand with technological possibility and vice versa - there needs to be a more complete approach to development

At the risk of repeating myself: getting #AI into your organization is about more than #technology Only the ones that transform and change their processes will see the real benefits: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

"The #Politics of #AI are about to explode" www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 🧵

Soeben wurde der lange erwartete Bericht zum Thema #DigitaleSouveränität der #Schweiz veröffentlicht: www.news.admin.ch/de/newnsb/2V... 🧵

Superior AI tech means nothing if U.S. firms can’t legally compete. Once allies choose a compliant rival, the opportunity can disappear for a decade.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Das Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit leisten mit der Cyber Security and Resilience Method (CSRM) einen Beitrag zur Stärkung der Informationssicherheit in Unternehmen.

Der Zürcher Kantonsrat auf Abwegen: Erstmals entscheidet ein Parlament in der Schweiz, dass der Staat biometrische #Gesichtserkennung zur Überwachung der Bevölkerung einsetzen darf. Der Zürcher Regierungsrat soll die Kompetenz für Pilotversuche erhalten. www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/11/25/k...

One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?

Just as we had zero tolerance policies in a bunch of fields, we should have a zero tolerance policy on intellectual dishonesty...

Spannender Beitrag von Avenir Suisse Gerade in turbulenten Zeiten müssen Nationen #antifragil bleiben (man könnte auch sagen: #agil bleiben). Wichtig, dass die Schweiz das beherzigt www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonnt...

President Trump faces an unexpected rift in the MAGA movement as Republican officials warn his embrace of the tech industry’s artificial intelligence boom risks undermining Americans’ economic security and exposing their children to new harms.

"That rot appears in journalists in different forms: debasing themselves at the feet of power because it’s rewarded; allowing themselves to be debased by the powerful to maintain status and access; and identifying more with their powerful subjects than regular people"

Wie Rechtspopulisten weltweit die Medienfreiheit unter Druck setzen – und wie wir dagegenhalten können – darüber sprechen wir am 27. November im PROGR Bern mit: Luzia Tschirky, Renato Beck, Valentin Rubin und Sanija Ameti. Sichere dir ein Ticket. www.operation-libero.ch/de/shop/tick...

Great new resource by Virtual Routes for #AI in #Cybersecurity Check out the #Toolkit! virtual-routes.org/ai-in-cybers...

🚨🚨 "Brussels is a bureaucracy. It is good at process and law. But it is incapable of acting quickly and ruthlessly like the European great powers of the past, or like the US and China today." Excellent piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social on the "Scramble for Europe".

HRDAG's executive director Megan Price teamed up with CAT Lab Founder @natematias.bsky.social to research how human participation can improve AI. Read our latest findings. hrdag.org/2025/11/17/n...

On a day when half the internet is wobbling, GitHub going down hits different. Our entire digital world hangs off a few fragile rafters, and days like this remind us just how thin the ice really is.

"Wir sind dabei, das Betriebssystem unserer Gesellschaften neu zu schreiben, sei es durch menschliche Gesetze oder durch Algorithmen. Aber haben wir jemals wirklich gelernt zu coden?"

Super Denkanstoss zum Wochenbeginn von @hofrat.bsky.social #LetsGetCoding #AI #DigitalGovernance #PublicSectorTransformation www.diepresse.com/20311091/ki-...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😵‍💫 Fehlende #AILiteracy ist noch ein grösseres Problem als gedacht

As a long-time fan of @oddlots.bsky.social I highly recommend you give their episode with Paul Kedrosky a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... 🧵

Excited to announce that I’ll be part of this year’s #Basecamp2025 , which is part of the #EuropeanEconomicForum 2025 by Lucerne Dialogue ! We’ll dive into the big question: How can business strengthen democracy in turbulent times? lucerne-dialogue.ch/en/eef #EEF25

how do you say "Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter" in MAGA language?

I know we love to do the Torment Nexus bit, but there was literally a Black Mirror episode about a company that simulated your deceased loved ones via scraping their social media. Spoiler: it doesn't go well.

$220 million for a fascist ad campaign is bad enough. But it's all to line the pockets of Noem's friends and their families. The details in here are nuts. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Because - shocker, I know - people like if you actually help them understand what's going on

"Es ist eine Ironie der Geschichte, dass heute bei Ausfällen zentralisierter Dienste die Schuld bei ebendiesem dezentralen Dienst gesucht wird, der aber bestens und fehlerfrei funktioniert." www.heise.de/meinung/Komm...

"Technology [...] should enable the average person to lead a fuller, richer, freer life. But tech doesn’t automatically do that. It can also hurt people, isolate people, promote extremism and harm the social fabric." Something is changing www.infinitescroll.us/p/marc-andre...

Digital Erwachsen.

Many emerging AI safety challenges closely parallel problems the trust and safety community spent two decades learning to address, yet conversations between the communities often happen in parallel rather than in dialogue, writes Antonina Vikhrest.

😮 Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China! The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more. www.focus.de/panorama/wel...

Der Bundesrat plant, das EPD mit dem elektronischen Gesundheitsdossier (E-GD) zu ersetzen. Es soll allen Schweizerinnen und Schweizern automatisch zur Verfügung stehen.

In Folge #100 diskutieren @wiegold.de @rikefranke.bsky.social @drfranksauer.bsky.social & @carlomasala1.bsky.social die Frage, wie wir jetzt umgehen müssen mit “kein Krieg, aber irgendwie auch kein Frieden”. Jetzt in eurem Podcatcher - oder mit Bewegtbild in der ARD Mediathek. Bilder: Fabian Bimmer

First episode #WhiteMirror Let's discuss the potential of #AI in #democracy, specifically a summary bot acting as a counterweight to a failing #media ecosystem & providing some much needed #transparency for #policy processes nicolas-zahn.ghost.io/white-mirror...

The UN Cybercrime Convention was signed in Hanoi last week to strengthen cross-border cooperation on cybercrime, but states dominated the process and non-state actors had limited engagement, Samaya Anjum writes from Hanoi.

The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl. The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.

Phase 1: In Chine billigst produzieren, Phase 2: Sich immer für schlauer halten als andere. Phase 3: Irre Gewinne einfahren Phase 4: Von China abhängig sein und erpresst werden Phase 5: Hilfe! Die Arbeitsplätze! Schnell Autogipfel und Steuergeld! Die deutsche Industrie.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Germany discusses counter-cyberattacks. Which Germany so far does not do, but interior minister Dobrindt now proposes a change to this policy to defend against cyberattacks. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Die Signal-Chefin Meredith Whittaker spricht im Interview über die Chatkontrolle. Ihre Argumente für mehr Datenschutz sind auch interessant für User, die denken, dass sie „nichts zu verbergen haben“ (F+) 🔗 www.freitag.de/autoren/fges... 📝 Finn Gessert 📷 Foto: Florian Hetz