If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.

Go on my son.

The shamelessness of a political party which is led by a man who just weeks ago called for "pure cold rage" on the streets, shortly before migrants were literally burnt out of their homes, now accusing their opponents of "stochastic terrorism" against them, is quite something

My blog, www.publiclawforeveryone.com, now features "Not by AI" badging. For more information on the Not by AI initiative, see: notbyai.fyi/not-by-ai-90....

Sam Neill, R.I.P. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...

Crucial to note that this specific survey only concerns residents surveyed in the U.S. This data does not apply to UK residents.

What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.

The Chancellor has the power to stop Farage's cynical ploy. I've written to her this morning urging her to act. Farage should not be allowed to resign until the investigation into his dodgy dealings has concluded. The people of Clacton deserve the facts first.

Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel

Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

On my way, Clacton.

“Beginning on July 20, all eyewear or headwear that contains cameras, microphones or other recording technology will not be allowed inside any Unified Court System facilities, according to a memo from the Office of Court Administration.”

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

“ ‘We created a monster’: companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets” “Consumers and businesses have been taught that AI is cheap or free and that is definitely not the case” A must-read @financialtimes.com article By @jamie-john.ft.com @rafeuddin.ft.com & Ryan McMorrow

Cynthia Dwork & other privacy experts show why Trump Admin’s politically motivated decision to prevent the Census Bureau from using the best methods to protect confidentiality will end up with worse quality data, less publicly available data, and/or a privacy breach. scottaaronson.blog?p=9902

Dog rescued in Venezuela after 6 days in rubble! Such goodness all around 😍

Europe’s top court has dismissed Google’s appeal against a €4.1 billion Android antitrust fine, handing the European Commission a major victory in one of its longest-running antitrust battles with Big Tech.

Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement

Anthropic says "some routine tasks like coding and debugging" on Fable 5 "will fall back to Opus 4.8" in "the near term" as it works to "reduce false positives" (@anthropicai) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

ICYMI: a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.

What happens when AI agents are tasked to investigate police datasets? What happens when agentic policing becomes part of the normal workflow for collected video/sensor case data? The future of agentic policing is unwritten, but this article is a good first start. stateline.org/2026/06/26/p...

🚨A handful of NHS trusts have driven the national performance gains attributed to Palantir. For one key claim, 84% of the headline figure reflects improvements at Chelsea and Westminster - a trust recently jointly chaired by a former Palantir adviser. as.ft.com/r/ce4b840b-f...

The UK Government has promised legislation will soon be adopted that specifically regulates police use of facial recognition (and future AI-based biometric mass surveillance systems). But will it contain the safeguards and limits to prevent police abuse? See this Alan Turing Report for more:

The UK still lacks legislation that specifically sets clear rules and limits on police use of facial recognition. Regulators have been calling for new legislation for over 10 years. Yet police are rapidly deploying this powerful surveillance tool without clear safeguards & independent oversight.

NEW @citizenlab.ca report finds Russia 🇷🇺 used Cellebrite to break into activist's phone 👇 citizenlab.ca/research/rus...

Preliminary findings: the EU says Azure and AWS are "the largest and second largest" cloud services in the EU, as the bloc weighs up tougher DMA oversight (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Buckle up for another epic thread from the ever-insightful Emma Monk, debunking yet another fact-free right-wing story! This time, about climate crisis. This thread is also a great lesson in how to do science communication to reach us non scientists

The literature on harms to kids from online platforms is complex and nuanced, rife with people citing small, ambiguous studies as iron-clad evidence that kids are being destroyed by the internet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ype6... 1/

NEW, from me and @peard33.bsky.social: As some employees feared might happen, Meta exposed data internally from its controversial employee-tracking and data-training program, MCI (model capability initiative) www.wired.com/story/meta-a...

By next year, London will have eight areas with fixed, police-operated, face recognition cameras, the Met has announced. Really does continue the UK's push to roll out more and more face recognition systems—both those operated by the police and also in privately owned shops

New from 404 Media: Madison Square Garden made a dossier on activists who have opposed the venue's facial recognition program. MSG scans faces of people so some can be arbitrarily denied entry. Dossier includes specific activists, their contact info, tweets, etc www.404media.co/madison-squa...

EU, tech law CJEU: Member States can require age verification for porn, and ban rebroadcast of traffic cop information also ***a website that controls what viewers see via an algorithm is liable for the content*** curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

Neither Save The Children nor the NSPCC supports a government child safety policy. Usually, that would be the end of that policy. But for some reason it's always different rules when it's internet.

UK AI takes a leap forward. Zenith – the UK’s largest AI supercomputer – launches at Cambridge, alongside a new Sovereign AI Innovation Lab. From transforming cancer care to fusion energy, collaboration and investment will unlock huge progress in meeting some of the world's greatest challenges.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change “We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...

Have you heard of Apple's decision on the rollout of Siri AI in Europe? Let's get the facts straight ⬇️

The European Commission has ordered Meta to give competing AI assistants free access to WhatsApp, a rare emergency intervention that will stay in force until it completes an antitrust investigation into the company.

Tomorrow, the House of Commons will debate the risks and opportunities of data centre sustainability. Read the written evidence that academics at @ox.ac.uk have submitted: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide... committees.parliament.uk/work/9651/ri... @oii.ox.ac.uk @oxfordnetzero.bsky.social

Europe is ramping up its warnings over the surveillance risks of smart glasses, in what is seen as the next big fight over people’s physical privacy.

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

A growing number of countries are considering measures to block youth access to social media or other digital content. Today, the Information Policy Lab is launching a Report on the tradeoffs age verification offers for privacy, freedom of expression and child protection: cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/...

Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.

Palantir should not have ‘significant role’ in UK public data systems, MPs say

SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.

On June 15, the EP will vote on the Digital Omnibus on AI. At the same time, Cyprus is working to reach an agreement on the Council's position regarding Digital Omnibus (GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, and the Data Act) before its presidency of the Council of the EU ends on July 1.

If you notice any synergies between the EU AI Act and GDPR, here's the Italian DPA's decision: lnkd.in/eJ46Htj7 The investigation revealed that organizations can purchase the Myndoor plug-in, which analyzes language in Slack and Teams chats to assess psychological stress.

More than 60% of Australian kids are still using social media despite the ban. Because prohibition rarely works. We know this. mollyrosefoundation.org/more-than-60...

❗Leaving the ECHR would jeopardise the UK’s national security and hinder its efforts to tackle irregular migration, say a group of former justice secretaries and attorneys-general👇 🔗 www.ft.com/content/b3e4... via @financialtimes.com