Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'

Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib have been on hunger strike for 46 days. They are at serious risk of death. They are in prison because the UK would prefer to lock up young opponents of mass murder than stop facilitating genocide. The Home Secretary must intervene.

Palestine Action-linked hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah taken to hospital

We demand immediate hospital care now for Qesser Zuhrah.

I'm in Tech Policy Press today exploring the intersection of competition law and tech expertise. Who are tech experts? What do they know? And how might competition regulators use them best in an increasingly digital economy? www.techpolicy.press/who-are-tech... @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Our researcher and @stsucl.bsky.social alumna Ananya Karanam has just published this excellent post with some findings from our survey of AI researchers rai.ac.uk/hed-are-ai-r...

Achal Agrawal realised how ingrained research misconduct had become, and resolved to do something about the issue He is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/3Yk3d0T

“AI was the answer”? To what, exactly? Automating mass deportations? Waging automated genocide? Producing disinformation at scale? This is the kind of framing I expect from corporate PR, not journalism.

Okay, hive mind! I'm doing a foresight review on the safe adoption of AI in engineering - am planning a research trip to the Bay Area in Feb, and am looking to speak to folk working on - transparent approaches to the full AI supply chain, inc data, labour practices, environmental footprint (1/2)

“I suspect hundreds if not thousands of Gazans have been executed in the same manner. This is a war on occupied people–a war on civilians. There is no army in the West Bank. Israel is not fighting with anybody. They are just conducting attacks on civilian population… praised by Israeli army and...

Israeli forces target buildings in central Gaza's Bureij and eastern Khan Younis.

Settlement being “near automatic” is a huge surprise to me, a person who only recently settled permanently and had to provide evidence of travel and residency over the past decade and paid £4000 for the privilege of just being considered for it. 🤔

Ploughing through this and is Mahmood really that shocked that her policies are being endorsed by the far right? The language alone, such as describing the last government's hideous policies as "open borders" contains enough dog whistles to set every one of them in the country barking.

Burying the lede here ... "59% of novelists reported they knew their work had been used to train GenAI models. Of these, 99% said they did not give permission and 100% said they were not remunerated for this use."

Asked about Shabana Mahmood's plans to shake-up asylum, Tice says the home secretary "is beginning to sound as if she is sort of putting in an application" to join Reform.

(Serious Question) What (books/articles) should someone read to understand the british political class's obsession with immigration and refugees, for someone relatively unfamiliar with the longer history of british politics?

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for Labour that voters refuse to recognise the difference between the government's progressive, well-intentioned racism and the destructive, toxic racism of Reform and the far-right.

Opposing genocide is the moral duty of our time. Yet Palestine Action activists have been held in prison for over a year without trial. Six are now on hunger strike. Detaining peaceful protesters under counter-terror powers is indefensible. This is political imprisonment in all but name.

Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/full-list-israels-ceasefire-violations-gaza

UNRWA says October 'on track to be the most violent month' since it began tracking settler violence in 2013.

'Almost wiped out': Israeli restrictions stifle recovery of Gaza's farmlands - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/almost-wiped-out-israeli-restrictions-stifle-recovery-gazas-farmlands

"The first prohibits Google and Amazon from restricting how Israel uses their products…. The second obliges the companies to secretly notify Israel if a court orders them to hand over the country’s data stored on their cloud platforms…." www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

Among the dead are 24 children as Israeli military says one of its soldiers killed.

‘Nothing has changed’: Gaza health workers report almost no medical aid entering the strip - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nothing-has-changed-gaza-health-workers-report-almost-no-medical-aid-entering-strip

Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza face danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed.

Israel strikes multiple targets in Gaza as returning Palestinians face another danger: buildings at risk of collapse.

ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza and says blockade had been a breach

Idi Amin deported 80,000 Asians from Uganda in 1972. So although the Conservatives want to propose the first mass deportation of legal migrants since Idi Amin - especially with the retrospective changes in ILR - Lam is proposing to deport 20 times as many people as Idi Amin.

🔴 REPORT | 11 Days After Ceasefire Declaration Only 520 Trucks of Food Have Entered Gaza: WFP 🔑 Gaza Aid Assessment: 🇺🇳 World Food Program says aid deliveries into Gaza are increasing but remain far below target, with just two crossings open. No crossings are open into the famine-hit north, and...

never a bad time for this classic xkcd.com/2347/

Making discrimination and exclusion the explicit goal of a society-wide digital ID infrastructure is a really bad way to go about both technical design but also the social/cultural shifts you need for it to work in practice.

I have a whole range of observations about digital ID, but the main one is it's a mistake to launch a complex, measurable, highly scrutinisable infrastructure project to achieve a specific measurable target when there is no evidence that the complex project will result in the measurable outcome

The fox needs access to the hen coop ASAP, to prevent disaster

Revealed: How Tony Blair is lobbying on behalf of tech billionaire Larry Ellison We expose former PM’s unprecedented influence over the UK govt & how this is shaped by the interests of his Institute’s largest donor & one of the world’s richest men www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... Thread

We must make this work — there is no other choice.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Lobbying efforts by technology companies diluted Indonesia's tech regulations by reducing burdens for algorithmic transparency, revenue sharing with publishers, and obligations to cooperate with media companies, Krisna Adhi Pradipta and Raymundus Rikang report.

A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza. The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started. Thousands fleeing for their lives

What I saw at Saturday’s rally was racism, pure and simple. Labour won’t tackle it until we can call it what it is | Diane Abbott

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

Govt minister Peter Kyle this morning: "We live in a country where free speech, free association, is alive and well"

“For 22 months I’ve been leading pro-Palestine marches which have been demonised by the police. But today, they seemed unable or unwilling to stop fascists effectively imprisoning fellow citizens for three to four hours" Police choose their side not so subtly www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Met Police’s policy on when they use oppressive facial recognition technology is made pretty clear here… ✅ Black community celebration / event ❌ White supremacist rally

The far right turnout today is much smaller than the number of people who came to protest at London Trans Pride this year, but the far right will of course get infinitely more press coverage.