Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Every 3D print in NY can be surveilled — from political speech to company prototypes — if these provisions make it into the state budget. We need to act NOW to stop it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Google hat einen unsichtbaren Wasserzeichen in jedes Bild integriert, das Gemini je generiert hat. Über 10 Milliarden Inhalte sind markiert. Ein arbeitsloser Ingenieur hat es gerade geknackt. Mit 200 schwarzen Bildern und bisschen Mathematik.

We used to be happy with books and cardboard spaceships and guitars. Take a mobile device away from a kid and see how long it takes for the screaming to start! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

So in summary, it doesn't go into London, it doesn't go to anywhere it was originally envisioned to go to, it has taken years and cost an incredible amount of money, and it doesn't go fast. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OUR great and noble training data vs. THEIR wicked and barbarous distillation attack

British Transport Police have launched their trial of live facial recognition despite the ongoing public consultation. Police use of facial recognition is expanding. We need urgent safeguards put in place now more than ever. 🚨 Today is our last chance to have our say. Don't miss your chance 👇

Great idea if we want to confuse tourists and a good chunk of the residents & commuters too

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

As Epstein courted Moscow, he built ties with Peter Thiel – first through mutual friends like Ian Osborne and Joi Ito discussing Bitcoin, then direct emails on crypto rules and funding for Blockstream. 4/12 www.febspot.com/explore/epst...

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Anathema to such conspiracies is transparency, frameworks which arrange to require accountability for dishonest or harmful behaviour, anything which meaningfully repays powerful people misusing that power with having it stripped. Collaboration of a majority of honest people defeats conspiracy.

For months, an Indian computer engineer trapped in a pig-butchering scam compound in Laos was secretly messaging @agreenberg.bsky.social and leaking him materials. This mini documentary is the incredible story of how he exposed the Chinese organized crime groups and, more importantly, escaped.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

Same tools being used on Americans we use on foreign adversaries. This goes for SIGINT as well as meat space, we are being reaped by all our electronic devices. Way to go America, you found a way to rival China.

House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer. That alone won't do. Mandelson leaked sensitive govt info. How many times did he do so? Who benefited from the leaks? Mandelson advised Starmer. Starmer made him US ambassador. What did Starmer know?

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.

The revolving door of corruption. "Palantir hired four Ministry of Defence officials last year. Then it won its biggest ever contract with the department." #SayNoToPalantir

Every Home Secretary has been worse than the last on basic rights

After Renée Good was murdered, an ICE agent told a protester “We killed one of you yesterday!” before trying to slap / snatch the phone out of the hand of the protestor filming him. They are willing to execute dissenters and threaten others with the same fate should they not bow down.

Terror in America. Jonathanpie.com youtu.be/oU7LOpQFOPQ?...

Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light. www.wired.com/story/autono...

Watching America finally realise it was never immune to fascism in real time is *something*

as this circles around, i wanted to share some more pieces abt flock's history: www.404media.co/tag/flock/ haveibeenflocked.com/news www.aclu.org/news/privacy... www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f... www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...

📢⚠️ An AWS supply chain flaw dubbed #CodeBreach nearly gave attackers full control of the AWS Console, thanks to a two-character bug in a regular expression (regex) filter. Read: hackread.com/how-2-missin... #Cybersecurity #AWS #Vulnerability #SupplyChain #CloudSecurity

Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How City AM editor Steve Dinneen exposed an AI-generated pitch, "London's Fried Chicken Wars," traced to Nairobi-based Wilson Kaharua.

movie pitch: a couple goes on a first date, each with AI earbuds instructing them on what to say. Eventually, the two AI systems fall in love.

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

Watch as researcher Martha Root infiltrates and wipes white supremacist dating sites like, leaks thousands of profiles on #okstupid.lol after a live demo at CCC 2025. Read: hackread.com/white-suprem... #Cybersecurity #Hacktivism #CCC2025 #okstupidlol #MarthaRoot

This is absolutely amazing. Hurray for science! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Arabische cartoonisten hebben een field day.

Investigadores suizos crean recubrimiento de papel térmico a base de madera para tickets y etiquetas, logrando imprimir sin disruptores hormonales. ecoinventos.com/investigador...

politeness and being upfront goes a long way.

The Online Safety Act comes into effect on Friday, which means the internet's going to get fucked for everyone in the UK. You'll have to provide some form of age ID to access so many websites, including Bluesky. IDK what to do about it other than wait and see how it all plays out.

Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs isn't just a bad idea, it's the law

yep! unpaywalled:

I've made this point multiple times before but if Bluesky wants to grow, the things they need aren't opinion pundits but accounts that publish new information. That's breaking news reporters, politicians and stuff like official organization accounts that publish official statements.

Tech company directly using its userbase as leverage lobbying to enshittify real life

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The latest in a long line of terrible humans seeing if they can destroy people lives before asking if they should. If only sociopaths were seen as bad instead of rewarded.

Amid calls for Netflix show Adolescence to be shown in schools, research shows that the drama triggered an outpouring of misogynistic abuse on incel forums @sanyaburgess.bsky.social reports ➡️ Read more: inews.co.uk/news/tv-show...

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open | Discussion

Winning at life. Asked a question, got useful answers, deleted it before getting a single 'I have somehow managed to detect a sinister agenda in your question' reply. Think I might go buy a lottery ticket while my streak is running.

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