🎉 Some important #CrossBorderRail news! 🎉 After thinking about the idea for more than a decade (yeah, this is later than a DB train!) I am finally starting to plan building a railway organisation for lobbying work. We're soft launching the idea today Details 👇 jonworth.eu/european-rai...

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

Lange Zeit war Medien- und Plattform-Recht reine Schönwetterregulierung. Diese Tage sind leider vorbei. Man kann nur hoffen, dass diese Erkenntnis den Aufsichtsbehörden bei aller Überraschung ein starkes Rückgrat wachsen lässt. (h/t @netzpolitik.bsky.social)

Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

Det er noe… «faglig» som skurrer litt for meg i denne nyhetssaken og debatten som har fulgt siste uka, og skal prøve å forklare hva. www.vg.no/i/lngVKy?utm...

Tenk at USA har sunket så dypt at de danser etter pipa til en kjeltring som Putin. Det nye utkastet til "fredsavtale" som har blitt forelagt Ukraina er en skam. I praksis går USA inn for å belønne Russlands angrepskrig i Europa, og permanent svekke Ukraina. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Gx...

📰 "#Privacy activists are predictably outraged. Billboards urging Ursula von der Leyen to put Europeans over #American tech CEOs lined the street outside the #Commission HQ, the Berlaymont, throughout Wednesday morning." 👉 Continue reading: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-dig...

The Commission’s deregulation agenda has opened the door to Big Tech lobbying. 🫂 During a tour in Silicon Valley, EU Commissioner Virkkunen shamelessly courted Big Tech CEOs promising to ‘simplify’ EU rules.

I've been reading a few people's reactions to the #DigitalSovereignty Summit #Digitalgipfel in Berlin yesterday. The summit did not seem to live up to its expectations. Talk of simplification, deregulation and "the market will solve this" is exactly how we got into this mess: ...

Nope. The headline should actually read “Astronomers using ML discover quasars acting as lenses”

Digital suverenitet betyr å gjøre bestilling av burgere uavhengig av store amerikanske internettselskaper

Nå har Cloudflare-problemene gått for langt: @arnfinns.bsky.social fikk ikke bestilt burger på Max. </3

Michael Kolain mit einer Zusammenfassung was bisher beim #DigitalGipfel besprochen wurde. Es wird Ankündigungen geben, was alles passiert, aber es gibt keinen politischen Nachfolgeprozess, dass diese Geschäftsmodelle dann auch in Richtung einer gemeinwohlorientierten Infrastruktur geht.

We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."

Mit Verweis auf "Bürokratieabbau" will das Finanzministerium die Lizenzschranke zur Besteuerung von Tech-Unternehmen abschaffen. Ersparnis: 10.000 Euro Verwaltungskosten. Entgangene Steuern: 1.000.000.000 Euro.

Today we demonstrated against Palantir at the Norwegian Digitization ministry ⬇️

‪I dag tidlig var vi med å protestere mot Palantir i Norge når de hadde et møte med digitaliseringsministeren. Daglig leder @gloptimist.bsky.social holdt appell og påpekte at Palantirs programvare brukes internasjonalt til å krenke menneskerettighetene.

Vi brukte morgentimene til å protestere mot Palantir i Norge når de hadde invitert seg selv til salgsmøte hos digitaliseringsministeren.

Kode24 rapporterer om vår demonstrasjon mot Palantir i morges ⬇️

Das Echo auf die von uns veröffentlichten Pläne der EU-Kommission zum Kahlschlag bei KI- & Datenschutzregulierung ist verheerend. Mehr als 120 NGOs warnen vor dem Grundrechteabbau. Auch drei Fraktionen im EU-Parlament stellen sich gegen die durchgesickerten Pläne. Wird von der Leyen einlenken?

I dag møtte digitaliseringsministeren Palantir. EFN tok del i dagens markering mot samarbeidet mellom den norske regjeringen og #Palantir (initiert av @attacnorge.bsky.social). Norge er bygget på verdier som demokrati, åpenhet og tillit. Palantir står for det motsatte. #StopPalantir

When industry says “simplify” they mean “deregulate”. ‘Deregulation’ means less privacy, more consumer harms, less competition, and fewer safeguards. The tech bros will get even richer and Europeans will pay the price. Let’s not allow Big Tech and its authoritarian allies to tell the EU what to do.

Vil du ha Palantir ut av Norge? Kom nå til DFD @Akersgata 49 for markeringen mot overvåking og mot samarbeid mellom regjeringen og Palantir

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

"Given the complexity and length of the song text, coincidence can be ruled out as the cause of the reproduction of the song lyrics," the court wrote in a press release. #AIEthics #digitalGovernance good to see a judicial system NOT in thrall to us tech, unlike the UK, apparently.

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

"Zum ersten Mal übertreffen Maschinen den Menschen in dem, was uns bisher einzigartig machte: unsere Intelligenz." Sagte der deutsche Digitalminister vor ein paar Tagen. Für alle, die sich deswegen Sorgen machen: Das ist totaler Quatsch. Macht Euch Sorgen wegen des Ministers.

«Da vil tallene i Oljefondets portefølje begynne å tikke nedover – og det veldig raskt. Det er ikke risikofritt å være så tungt investerte som vi er i den amerikanske tek-sektoren.» I dagens Klassekampen kommenterer vi også Oljefond-debatten.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

narrator: no, it cannot

Mozilla deployed an AI bot that overwrote 20 years of volunteer Japanese translations, without consultation. JP community leader resigned, and the offer from Mozilla is to "hop on a quick call to understand why they're struggling". FFS. HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583...

Für mich das Hauptlearning für progressive Kräfte hierzulande: Wehrt euch, schön sterben war gestern.

Mamdani, with 97% of the vote in, has more votes than all the other candidates combined

Anyone on here has experience with how to contact someone who manages a block-list? I've been put on a block-list of "republicans" which clearly has to be a mistake

Nei. Det har utløst en ekkel stråmannsdebatt om ytringsfrihet mens det vi burde hatt var en hard debatt om meningsinnhold. Vårt offenlige ordskifte er på ville veier når absolutt alle diskusjoner om fæle meninger blit en avledende debatt om ytringsfrihet, ytringsklima og kansellering.

Norge, nå er det din tur ⬇️

Hello new followers! Just wanted to let you know that from me you'll mostly hear about tech/AI and human rights in Norway (where I live), Germany and Europe, as well as the occasional post about #ESC, nerd stuff and cycling, in English, Norwegian and German.

Kluge, kundige, kritische AI-Beobachter*innen - wem könnte man da folgen?

«Big Tech må vekk»-festivalen samlet nærmere 140 mennesker for å snakke og tenke om hvordan og hvorfor vi kan skape en digital verden som ikke er dominert av noen få store selskaper.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

"There are more tech lobbyists than MEPs." Live from Brussels: (It's a good study. Check it out.)

Wer digitale Souveränität möchte, bekommt die auch! ❤️ Internationaler Strafgerichtshof will Bürosoftware von Microsoft durch deutsches Produkt ersetzen "Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof will einem Medienbericht zufolge seine Bürosoftware..." www.deutschlandfunk.de/internationa...

Es ist das Jahr 2025. Deutschland hat seine Meinungsbildung an BigTech verloren. Doch in einer gemütlichen Landeshauptstadt in @rlp.de organisiert sich Widerstand – und 1 Reform des deutschen Medienrechts. "Rundfunkkommission" klingt staubig? Ha! Willkommen zum GIF-Überblick-🧵 der MStV-Reform:

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

A school called Alpha that relies on AI to teach its students is also surveilling them at home, videotaping young girls in their bedrooms. This is some seriously sick shit. www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming - 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with" - Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare - We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels

Preliminary findings: 🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data. 🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions. This is a duty, not a choice. link.europa.eu/JYQrBX

Aldersgrenser på sosiale medier er en dårlig idé og ekstremt vanskelig å implementere uten å bryte med fundamentale rettigheter som personvern og digital inkludering. Mye kan oppnås med å håndheve og stramme inn eksisterende regelverk. Uttaler meg til @kode24.no

Lovforslaget om å endre aldersgrensen på sosiale medier fra 13 til 15 år har vært ute på høring. - Vi mener at dette forslaget bommer på hva man prøver å løse, sier styremedlem @tom-fredrik.no til @kode24.no: www.kode24.no/artikkel/van...