-
“Trump ally issues bill to exempt US websites from British regulators”
Looks like America finally has the possibility for a federal GRANITE act: Michael Rulli, a Republican congressman, wants to stop American courts from enforcing fines from Ofcom relating to the Online Safety Act https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/bill-us-ofcom-online-safety-regulators-h6jghd5fl
-
CDT: “The British Public Reject
State Access to Private Online
Conversations”According to recent polling, the British public have deep reservations about their government’s access to their private conversations. https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-08-06-CDT-SS-UK-encryption-polling-brief-final.pdf
Fediverse reactions
-
#RUSI / Royal United Services Institute makes batshit proposal to socially engineer “nationalism” in Britain to foster “total defence” / army signups
If you’re a Pratchett (or: Mary Shelley) reader you’ll know the most dangerous people are those clever enough to uncork some tremendous power — a monster, dragon, civic unrest — yet hubristic enough to believe they can also control that power; thus comes RUSI: “Following an increase in whole-of-society attacks, the UK government should deploy…
Fediverse reactions
-
Eventually @andyburnham @10DowningStreet must choose whether he wants British children online to be “safe” or “educated”, ‘coz we can’t have “both”
This, attached below, is an inevitability. The UK Government strove for years to foster “tech” capability in British childen, and — although the “safety” community will push this as a “platform” responsibility — either we’re going to have to leave the kids ignorant of tech, or-else they will be coding-up their own VPNs & other…
-
RE: 1 BILLION
It is interesting from a sociological perspective that some people will go to great lengths to explain how big 1+ billion is in the context of Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg having too much money, yet will consider similar numbers to be trivial in the matter of filtering daily content uploads to seek evidence of…
-
Ofcom’s quest to censor the world | spiked
[Ofcom] wants, it seems, pre-emptive powers to block access to sites operating anywhere in the world, should they be deemed harmful to people in the UK. This is authoritarian nonsense on any number of levels. For one thing, it moves noticeably towards a Great British Firewall, like that used in China. We should also worry…
Fediverse reactions
-
When I started password cracking in 1991, using all available computer resources of a small university I could manage about 200 guesses per second
Nowadays we do billions of guesses per second on modern laptops, not even particularly high-end ones; so when this person gets one token every four seconds for a 2.8 TRILLION parameter LLM, using AN OLD MACBOOK PRO, to me it suggests that local LLMs will soon be everywhere:
Fediverse reactions
-
New York puts accuracy minimums for age assurance into effect with SAFE for Kids Act | Biometric Update
The linked blog is a massive https://www.biometricupdate.com/202607/new-york-puts-accuracy-minimums-for-age-assurance-into-effect-with-safe-for-kids-act