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I like reinventing the wheels.
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I put in a freedom of information request for her register of interests, which would reveal if she owns OpenAI shares. The government refused to share it, claiming it contains ‘personal information’.
For context, the PM’s previous AI Adviser’s register of interests *was* published.
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For context, the PM’s previous AI Adviser’s register of interests *was* published.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I put in a freedom of information request for her register of interests, which would reveal if she owns OpenAI shares. The government refused to share it, claiming it contains ‘personal information’.
For context, the PM’s previous AI Adviser’s register of interests *was* published.
3/5
For context, the PM’s previous AI Adviser’s register of interests *was* published.
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The Palestinian tradition of olive picking and dates harvest in the occupied West Bank is under threat from Israeli settlers who have increased their attacks on farmers this season.
The struggle to preserve the Palestinian olive and date harvest
The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The Palestinian tradition of olive picking and dates harvest in the occupied West Bank is under threat from Israeli settlers who have increased their attacks on farmers this season.
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He pardons only the best people.
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
He pardons only the best people.
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Microsoft recommends users concerned about their privacy when interacting with AI chatbots use non-streaming models of LLMs.
#AI #LLM #chatbot #cybersecurity
thehackernews.com/2025/11/micr...
#AI #LLM #chatbot #cybersecurity
thehackernews.com/2025/11/micr...
Microsoft Uncovers 'Whisper Leak' Attack That Identifies AI Chat Topics in Encrypted Traffic
Microsoft’s Whisper Leak shows encrypted AI chats can secretly reveal user topics through subtle traffic patterns.
thehackernews.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Microsoft recommends users concerned about their privacy when interacting with AI chatbots use non-streaming models of LLMs.
#AI #LLM #chatbot #cybersecurity
thehackernews.com/2025/11/micr...
#AI #LLM #chatbot #cybersecurity
thehackernews.com/2025/11/micr...
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Blender just announced Blender Lab, an innovation space within the Blender project for the most ambitious tasks, which means that maybe some day in the future we will be able to delete a material in edit mode
Announcing Blender Lab: an innovation space within the Blender project, where designers and developers can work together on future-defining projects. Learn more at www.blender.org/news/introdu... #b3d
www.blender.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Blender just announced Blender Lab, an innovation space within the Blender project for the most ambitious tasks, which means that maybe some day in the future we will be able to delete a material in edit mode
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Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.
The #ExecutiveFunctionTheft of having to opt out.
Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)
Decided to check settings:
Decided to check settings:
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.
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apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech
European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Given the European Commission’s hype laden letter on the imminent arrival of AGI, I thought I’d reshare my piece about why policymakers are stuck in this bad framing. www.techpolicy.press/most-researc...
Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio says it is dangerous to the public interest for policymakers to center the pursuit of AGI in AI policy.
www.techpolicy.press
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Given the European Commission’s hype laden letter on the imminent arrival of AGI, I thought I’d reshare my piece about why policymakers are stuck in this bad framing. www.techpolicy.press/most-researc...
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every time one opens the Times, you expect psychic damage.
but this? this is an assault on the frontal cortex
but this? this is an assault on the frontal cortex
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
every time one opens the Times, you expect psychic damage.
but this? this is an assault on the frontal cortex
but this? this is an assault on the frontal cortex
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“Footage shows a federal officer in a black vehicle launch the irritant out of their window and into the car of Rafael Veraza, 25, and Evelin Herrera, 24, striking Veraza and their 1-year-old daughter, Arianna Sofia.”
They deployed it from inside the safety of their own vehicle into the other car.
They deployed it from inside the safety of their own vehicle into the other car.
A baby girl was pepper-sprayed in the face by Department of Homeland Security agents as her parents drove her home from a weekend family shopping trip.
Baby Pepper-Sprayed by DHS Thugs During Family Grocery Trip
Parents say an agent fired an irritant from a moving car.
trib.al
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Footage shows a federal officer in a black vehicle launch the irritant out of their window and into the car of Rafael Veraza, 25, and Evelin Herrera, 24, striking Veraza and their 1-year-old daughter, Arianna Sofia.”
They deployed it from inside the safety of their own vehicle into the other car.
They deployed it from inside the safety of their own vehicle into the other car.
A lot of great detail in this story by my colleague @nickmiroff.bsky.social, but I’m struck that you could boil most of the justifications down to: ICE agents are scared.
Why They Mask
Veteran ICE officers know face coverings are a bad look. But they’re not coming off anytime soon.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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the @ec.europa.eu's President von der Leyen is uncritically echoing AI hype & corporate PR, particularly that “AI would approach human reasoning in 2026”. we find this unacceptable & ask the Commission President to retract it. please sign this open letter if you agree
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...
@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...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
the @ec.europa.eu's President von der Leyen is uncritically echoing AI hype & corporate PR, particularly that “AI would approach human reasoning in 2026”. we find this unacceptable & ask the Commission President to retract it. please sign this open letter if you agree
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The 2011 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating based on data from supernovae. A new analysis now looks at a larger data set & finds that the Nobel Prize winning conclusion doesn't hold up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VpP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VpP...
Nobel Prize Discovery Incompatible With New Data
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The 2011 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating based on data from supernovae. A new analysis now looks at a larger data set & finds that the Nobel Prize winning conclusion doesn't hold up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VpP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VpP...
"What makes the malware notable is that it uses invisible #Unicode characters to hide malicious #code in code editors and abuses the pilfered credentials to compromise additional extensions and further extend its reach effectively creating a self-replication cycle"
thehackernews.com/2025/11/glas...
thehackernews.com/2025/11/glas...
GlassWorm Malware Discovered in Three VS Code Extensions with Thousands of Installs
GlassWorm malware returns in VS Code extensions, hiding via Unicode and reviving itself through blockchain.
thehackernews.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"What makes the malware notable is that it uses invisible #Unicode characters to hide malicious #code in code editors and abuses the pilfered credentials to compromise additional extensions and further extend its reach effectively creating a self-replication cycle"
thehackernews.com/2025/11/glas...
thehackernews.com/2025/11/glas...
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“Transport officials are working with the National Cyber Security Centre to assess whether Yutong, the world’s biggest bus maker, has remote access to the vehicles’ control systems for software updates and diagnostics.”
www.ft.com/content/07ec...
www.ft.com/content/07ec...
UK investigates whether buses made in China can be turned off from afar
Investigation comes after Norway found Yutong vehicles could be ‘stopped or rendered inoperable’ by Chinese company
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“Transport officials are working with the National Cyber Security Centre to assess whether Yutong, the world’s biggest bus maker, has remote access to the vehicles’ control systems for software updates and diagnostics.”
www.ft.com/content/07ec...
www.ft.com/content/07ec...
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Researchers behind a new study say that the methods used to evaluate AI systems’ capabilities routinely oversell AI performance.
AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study
A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models.
nbcnews.to
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Researchers behind a new study say that the methods used to evaluate AI systems’ capabilities routinely oversell AI performance.
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"LLM’s output is bullshit in the philosophical sense: statements that are divorced from whether or not they are true or false. The point of a LLM is to output text that looks right given the training data and query, not to produce text that is right" pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t...
The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver
Guest post by Nicholas C. Weaver The AI companies and related enterprises are currently spending huge amounts in capital expenditures (CAPEX) to build “Gigawatt” class data centers for various AI-r…
pivot-to-ai.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"LLM’s output is bullshit in the philosophical sense: statements that are divorced from whether or not they are true or false. The point of a LLM is to output text that looks right given the training data and query, not to produce text that is right" pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t...
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Funneling scholars into a few major platforms isn’t just annoying, it’s corrosive to intellectual freedom. Institutions should support researchers moving to more democratic and decentralized alternatives. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Science Must Decentralize
Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers in the field. That’s why we need to address the threat
www.eff.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Funneling scholars into a few major platforms isn’t just annoying, it’s corrosive to intellectual freedom. Institutions should support researchers moving to more democratic and decentralized alternatives. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” said Ginger Quintero-McCall, one of FPF's lawyers in our latest FOIA lawsuit against the immigration agency.
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities
freedom.press
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” said Ginger Quintero-McCall, one of FPF's lawyers in our latest FOIA lawsuit against the immigration agency.
"I can now think of nothing more important than joining them, and doing everything in my power to combat today’s existential threat to democracy and the rule of law."
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"I can now think of nothing more important than joining them, and doing everything in my power to combat today’s existential threat to democracy and the rule of law."
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Understaffed FAA Recommends Pilots Just Go With Their Gut https://theonion.com/understaffed-faa-recommends-pilots-just-go-with-their-gut/
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Understaffed FAA Recommends Pilots Just Go With Their Gut https://theonion.com/understaffed-faa-recommends-pilots-just-go-with-their-gut/
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Google Chrome will deprecate and remove XSLT support (the XML CSS thing) by late-2026
Cites security reasons
developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...
Cites security reasons
developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...
Removing XSLT for a more secure browser | Web Platform | Chrome for Developers
Prepare for Chrome deprecating and removing XSLT from the browser.
developer.chrome.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Google Chrome will deprecate and remove XSLT support (the XML CSS thing) by late-2026
Cites security reasons
developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...
Cites security reasons
developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...
Games are interesting because it's a media channel along with newspapers, cable TV and social media. And of course a great source of private data.
On the surface it is stated as "financial diversification" but deeper beneath it's an investment into surveillance economy.
On the surface it is stated as "financial diversification" but deeper beneath it's an investment into surveillance economy.
Here’s my breakdown of EA’s pending sale… to Saudi Arabia… and why this is much, much bigger than video games. I’m late to this from a ‘news’ perspective obviously, but it’s because I worked on this video for about a month.
youtu.be/yOzFyrRH_sw
youtu.be/yOzFyrRH_sw
I probably shouldn't post this
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Games are interesting because it's a media channel along with newspapers, cable TV and social media. And of course a great source of private data.
On the surface it is stated as "financial diversification" but deeper beneath it's an investment into surveillance economy.
On the surface it is stated as "financial diversification" but deeper beneath it's an investment into surveillance economy.
Times they changed sure have.
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Times they changed sure have.