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MI5 concedes it ‘unlawfully’ obtained data from former BBC journalist | …a mere 16+ years to obtain this concession
Note that elsewhere: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/15/mi5-concedes-it-unlawfully-obtained-data-from-former-bbc-journalist
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Geedge & MESA Leak: Analyzing the Great Firewall’s Largest Document Leak
This has been kicking around for a few days now; still waiting for anything earth-shattering to come out of it, but worth watching: https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/
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Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape | BogdanTheGeek’s Blog
This is kind of the geek version of one of those “you can create an entire market garden in your backyard from newspaper and old soda cans” TikTok posts. Compute power is so cheap nowadays that it will never be erased from public accessibility, and society needs to adapt to technology rather than vice-versa. Enjoy!
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I strongly suspect that Bluesky “content moderation” and “safety” is following the same trajectory that Facebook did, and that “distribution” excuses it…
In case you missed it: a bunch of people on Bluesky posted about the recent assassination / murder of a prominent right-wing American figure with a statement which in Latin* would be “requiescat in urina” — and then they had their posts blocked: Truthfully: this sounds like the behaviour of a text classifier which —
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2015: “AI Images Look Ridiculously Fake” | 2025: “AI Images Look Ridiculously Real” | The solution to risk is education
Ten years ago we were mocking image generation algorithms which produced nothing but psychedelic dog faces, now everyone older than 25 is panicking about fake pictures of bad teen bedrooms being used to empathise real kids into being abducted. WRONG-O. This could be a predator who has synthesized an entirely fabricated persona for the purposes
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Does anyone else suspect that people who want the UK to withdraw from the ECHR are people who want to reintroduce capital punishment?
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by the results of this conversation with ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/68c6c8b6-df54-8004-9ea4-e83591594604
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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers | …this is a wonderful and absolutely necessary tool for AI policy experts
Perfect. Every day, thousands of researchers race to solve the AI alignment problem. But they struggle to coordinate on the basics, like whether a misaligned superintelligence will seek to destroy humanity, or just enslave and torture us forever. Who, then, aligns the aligners? We do. https://alignmentalignment.ai/
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If everyone (including kids) can see someone be literally assassinated on a podium as “news”, but require age verification for addiction recovery forums, maybe the online safety act tries to solve the wrong problem?
This video by Thomas Pearson raises some interesting questions but offers no answers; I would suggest that the only scalable solution is to “make better people” Regulators will soon try to draft new and unenforceable rules like “…it’s ok if somebody died so long as they weren’t in frame and Trump only had his ear
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Hey, global citizens, aren’t you glad that you have end-to-end encrypted messenger systems that meaningfully protect your chat content without being scanned or filtered by the government?
Hegseth tells Pentagon staff to hunt for negative Charlie Kirk posts by service members https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-pentagon-staff-negative-charlie-kirk-posts-service-members-rcna230915
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California legislature passes bill forcing web browsers to let consumers automatically opt out of data sharing | WELL, GOSH, NOBODY HAS EVER TRIED THAT BEFORE. CLEARLY THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO
NOT: The California legislature on Thursday passed a bill to require internet browsers to feature a setting that allows consumers to send a signal indicating they want to opt out of having their personal data shared with third parties. https://therecord.media/california-legislature-passes-bill-data-sharing-opt-out
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