Some companies who told their staff to use AI now are asking employees to reduce usage after, for example, Accenture found that non-technical workers were using it to convert PDFs into different file types. www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

The Donaldson case rumples on. For anyone affected by sexual violence, abuse, or related trauma, support is available. You don’t have to face this alone. Support organisations in Northern Ireland: - Nexus NI: 0808 802 1414, [email protected], dsahelpline.org 1/2

Agentic browsing transforms the web browser from a passive display window into an autonomous AI agent that can interpret natural language commands and execute complex tasks across websites on your behalf.

Who has profited most from the war on Iran? https://aje.news/xtppou

You can hear the full unedited audio of loyalist paramilitaries (unsuccessfully) ordering me out of 'their' area, with film footage shot by the Sky News helicopter capturing part of the incident. These are the people we need to reject - not foreign nurses.

Prospect is calling on the Government to leave X following ongoing political interference and the promotion of far-right content on the platform. Civil servants and communications workers should not have to read racist content while trying to do their jobs and communicate with the public.

Social care services in Northern Ireland could not be delivered if international staff members are forced out through racist intimidation. NI Social Care Council chief executive, Tracey Reid, says more than one fifth of the 50,000-strong social care workforce comes from outside the UK and Ireland.

Social media giants must own their role in amplifying misinformation that fuels hate gangs. Engagement algorithms often prioritise inflammatory content over truth, turning digital falsehoods into real-world violence. We need transparent moderation and swift action.

We’ve seen some sharing this graphic we done a while back. Seems a good moment to reshare it!

The #PSNI has released images of people they would like to speak to in connection with the racist riots in #Belfast on Tuesday. www.psni.police.uk/news/op-expo...

I live/work beside this building - derelict since 2009. The people hounding the new business owners don't even live here. Those complaining about "foreign food" have no issue with the Indian, Chinese takeaways or Turkish/Kurdish barbers lining the Shankill. They're just racist cunts.

Search engines developed complex anti-spam systems over decades, a constant arms races with #spammers. Now, companies are deliberately creating content designed to be scraped rather than read by humans. Instead of fighting it #AI companies are letting it poison their training data.

Microsoft's latest #Copilot update admits the floating button was a misstep; users pushed back hard enough that they finally moved it back to the ribbon. But the underlying problem remains - the push to integrate #AI everywhere regardless of whether anyone asked for it.

New plans for Castlebrooke's controversial Tribeca development in #Belfast. Good news - they've scrapped the name and are shifting from offices to housing, makes sense. However, reducing Writers' Square should not be part of any development. Belfast deserves proper civic spaces, not less of it.

Uber has realised that #AI costs just as much (if not more) than employing human beings to do the job. When speaking with Uber's senior engineering leaders "he realised higher [AI] token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features".

Large fire at a site in #Belfast's Titanic Quarter.

Belfast Shark.

Instagram DMs going plaintext after Meta reverses encryption plans. Privacy commitments from Big Tech remain flexible. Worth reading the full breakdown:

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

No matter the problem, tea is the answer.

So I guess it was either World War III or drag queens reading books to our children.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office – live

While politicians and public officials frequently mislead the public, the legal framework for misconduct in public office is deliberately narrow. It requires proof of intentional, duty‑related wrongdoing, a clear causal link to the office, and sufficient evidence to satisfy the CPS’s standards.

I think the people of this country have had enough of tax-exile billionaires.

"Stadtplan von Belfast mit Mil.-Geo.-Eintragungen" Published by the OKW in 1940, this map shows the city of Belfast in great detail. Annotations single out military and industrial sites, many of which would sustain damage during the following year's Belfast Blitz. (David Rumsey Collection)

The world has seen how Trump treats countries the US does business with: threats of occupation, invasion, or economic punishment. China may be many things, but it will be significantly more predictable.

New blog: A whistle stop history of Ulster's roads: wesleyjohnston.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/a...

It's International Dog Day 🐶

🦖 Natural History Museum, London

Palestine Action are welcome to move their operation to Northern Ireland where being a proscribed organisation means you actually get special allowances to do crime

Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that. ‘If women in Northern Ireland rioted every time one of us was attacked, the country would lie in ashes.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fujitsu (the team behind the Post Office Horizon scandal) has won a £125m @finance-ni.gov.uk contract to build Northern Ireland's new land registry system. www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/n...

Sunny day road trip into the Sperrin Mountains, Northern Ireland

@the1shane.bsky.social I'm not the only one.

Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

The United States and Russia today. #StandWithUkraine

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Kudos to the photographer who captured this shot.

A @ukparliament.parliament.uk Petition to prohibit game publishers from irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

A proposed bill is hoping to legislate the display of flags in N. Ireland - targeting flags "glorifying terrorism" or paramilitary orgs - Union Jack, Ulster Banner, Irish tricolour not affected #Vexillology flagchronicle.com/2025/01/12/p...

A Christmas Carol is one of our most enduring stories because it teaches us that old rich jerks will change their fuckin tune if you scare the living shit outta them

WATCH: I asked our correspondent in Damascus , Iina Sinjab, about how it felt to witness this weekend’s events. Lina is Syrian.

We've always been a fan of blueskies.

Job done. Glitter everywhere. 🎄

People of Bluesky. Let's get to know each other better. What is your all-time favorite TV show? Quote share your answer in gif form.

Post a movie GIF from the year you were born. (1986)