Kudos to Sky News for a project trying to measure the political bias of the X algorithm. Looks like a lot of work involved here: news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

After a monthslong trade war, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet Thursday in Korea. “What’s at stake is America’s ability to keep innovating and leading in the industries of the future,” Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu argue.

AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes

Publication Day 🎉 today work I’ve been doing exploring and understanding the digital lives of in 14-24 year olds has been published. To read the report and my own personal reflection on the project www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...

We monitored an AI chatbot service popular with teens and found characters modelled on alt-right extremists, school shooters and even real people – including Jeffrey Epstein Character AI has millions of users – and the app has been downloaded 2m+ times in the UK alone

Talking to people outside oh the usual bubble is so invigorating

Absolute bombshell from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social: Meta's internal research found that Instagram's algorithms preferentially displayed harmful content to vulnerable teens. I'm glad I left Instagram back when I did, even if it was for other reasons (their anti-LGBTQ policies).

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Cory Doctorow has a word for that kind of 'do less and get less' approach to AI adoption: futurism.com/future-socie... If it ends up getting fumbled, it'll be myopic money grabs that do it, not the tech itself.

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Microsoft and Anthropic appoint former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak as a senior adviser and pledge his role will not include lobbying with the UK government (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

@roberthutton.co.uk smashing to chat with you earlier. Here’s that spot I was talking about www.cine-real.com/pages/shop-v...

I’ve worked on and off on digital identity for a decade. I have plenty of thoughts about the UK govt proposal. Right now though, based on my work with 14-24 year olds I’m curious how a compulsory DIGITAL ID will help with extricating young people from mobile devices? 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.gov.uk/government/n...

Compulsory ID. Compulsory. ID.

Telegraph readers marginally more opposed to ID cards than for them. Times readers all in enthusiastic for them. Curious.

Utterly unsurprised that when it comes to bricks and mortar shoppers want to interact with people not surveillance cameras. ‘Amazon to close all its ‘grab and go’ till-less grocery stores’ www.thetimes.com/article/cd7c...

@williamcb.bsky.social thank you for your hospitality and for hosting an interesting conversation.

My timeline demonstrating the extent of the wealth/poverty gap depressingly clearly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social @techmeme.com

This report, combined with the UK Govt report on Microsoft Co-Pilot seem to be early warning signs that AI is not living up to the vastly inflated expectations. Trough of Disillusionment here we all come!

Wow, Diana Johnson MP twisting what surveillance means on BBC radio 4 right now. Being transparent about 24/7 live facial recognition doesn’t stop it being surveillance. To then claim it’s adhering to the law, and in the next breath sat there will be a consultation on the law is really something

Facebook is increasingly under siege and now a new Dutch initiative – the Facebook Museum – is aiming to help users break away from the platform once and for all.

NEW: ChatGPT allows Google to index chats users share using the Share functionality - presumably misinterpreting "make this chat discoverable". The result? Frank admissions about sex lives and drug dependencies. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo... tip @techmeme.com

@orbenamy.bsky.social making some excellent points on Radio 4 Today about the lack of definitive data relating to screens, young people and mental health.

What next? Parents encouraged to “chip” their kids along with the family pets? 24 / 7 surveillance of each other is not a sign of love it’s a restriction of independence, fundamental to children’s development.

More Than Robots July edition is available now A stroll around the youth/digital/equity Venn Ft @ofcom.bsky.social @shuhbillskee.bsky.social @peteetchells.bsky.social @renatesamson.bsky.social @pshe-association.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social and more www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...

What a shock: age verification tools are inaccurate, invade privacy and keep too much data. But providers insist they can make it work because that's what they always say. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Our new report on the governance of biometric technologies in the UK covered by @financialtimes.com ⬇️ www.ft.com/content/09ce... (£)

proliferation of nudify apps and the app store / social media complicity in promoting and platforming them is an absolute nightmare: www.404media.co/no-one-knows...

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

New technologies and social media was meant to offer opportunity. But for many young people, it’s adding pressure, not clarity. 🤖 AI is making jobs harder to get, or wiping them out entirely 📱 Social media romanticises success, leaving them feeling behind 🌐 Endless options online feel overwhelming

How is Gen Z experiencing the shift from school to work? 1️⃣ Young people told us how COVID-19 fundamentally changed their sense of self & paths to employment. The pandemic paused their lives – missed exams, lost confidence, big plans derailed – with many still dealing with the consequences today.🧵

Really great piece from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social comparing digital life to ultra processed foods and the misery that comes from over indulgence ‘TikTok and AI are junk food — start dieting’ www.thetimes.com/article/3136...

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Pleased to see our letter published in @thetimes.com today. @nuffieldfoundation.org @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social

AI-written text is baked into software that millions, if not billions, of people use every day, Victoria Turk writes. How will it influence how we communicate with one another?

Meta says it plans to train its AI models on public content, like posts and comments, and interactions that users have with its AI in the EU starting this week (Meta) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

AI video generation is about to get a whole lot better and make our lives a whole lot worse. Safeguards must be put in place to hold the tech industry accountable, mitigate the considerable harms and ensure people can control their image and likeness. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/ai-vide...

"Hey Alexa, are you recording this?" Yes, the answer is yes. Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant." @couts.bsky.social on why you should care. Read more: www.wired.com/story/everyt...

@pezzatronic.bsky.social sat listening to Dimbleby doing the history podcast, thinking this sounds great, then whaddya know you’re named. Such joy!

Like everyone else I am struggling to explain to my students that no amount of YouTube videos will replace a book chapter read, a lecture attended, notes taken & studied. And no, you cannot have the lecture slides… I know you will memorise the bullet points rather than read the text.

China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

they're absolutely right

I know not all of my followers signed up for updates on post quantum cryptography (PQC), but what the hell Delighted to see the @ncsc.gov.uk publish the clearest guidance yet anywhere in the world on this hugely important long-term cyber security challenge 👇 www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/pqc...

Thanks @connectedbydata.org @jenitennison.com @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social and countless others for a super unconference today 🫶

Keep an eye out for AI lackeys using the phrase “freedom to learn” in an attempt to normalize plagiarism, copyright violation, and theft of labor

A new study finds that workers aren’t buying into AI hype. They see it as a tech “that will primarily benefit large corporations, be used to surveil them & invade their privacy, & over which they will have little power,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social reports. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/workers-kn...

NEW: Pinterest is the latest social media site to update its TOS + privacy policy to outline its use of user data and images to train AI. That said: Pinterest was *already* using platform data for AI training, including for a text-to-image AI used by marketers. futurism.com/pinterest-da...

AI-generated review summaries are coming to Apple’s app store