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#Criminology @ Cambridge Cybercrime Centre | #Cybersecurity | #Cybercrime | #Criminalisation | Social aspects of #tech
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"The 'deeper purpose' of nonconsensual AI nudes is darker than sexual gratification. The goal is to 'humiliate, shame, and objectify women, especially women who have the temerity to speak out.'" indicator.media/p/nonconsens...
Nonconsensual nude generators had another banner year. What will it take to defeat them?
Deplatforming the companies, debilitating the technology, and deterring the users
indicator.media
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO) will be held again in 2026, as part of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy.

The CfP is at: wacco-workshop.org

I hope to see you in Portugal!
WACCO 2026
Eight Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations
wacco-workshop.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Fun fact I learned about while writing this: During the 2007 holiday shopping season, retailers sharply discounted HD-DVD players and turned them into doorbusters, which made them fly off the shelves—only for the format to get discontinued in February of 2008.

tedium.co/2025/11/29/b...
The Hidden Psychology Behind Doorbuster Deals
On doorbuster deals, and the way that shopping events like Black Friday help channel our deep-seated shopping rage.
tedium.co
November 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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For all the dog people, some great research from my colleagues in The Conversation:

'Dogs were already remarkably diverse in their skull size and shape more than 10,000 years ago, long before kennel clubs and pedigrees.'

theconversation.com/its-a-myth-t...
It’s a myth that the Victorians created modern dog breeds – we’ve uncovered their prehistoric roots
Dogs were already remarkably diverse more than 10,000 years ago, long before kennel clubs and pedigrees.
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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The Rockstar union case made its way into UK Parliament earlier today
Video game giant Rockstar has sacked more than 30 workers across the UK, including my constituents working at their Edinburgh office. I urged Ministers to support workers who have lost their jobs, and stop this from happening again.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Do you think staff at the University of Dundee were misled when we were told there would be no redundancies? Or when he told us they hadn’t said there would be no redundancies?
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Sheffield Hallam was pressured by the Chinese state to shut down research into human rights abuses and gave in.

“It’s incredibly worrying that Hallam appears to have silenced its own professor on behalf of a foreign government.” Jo Grady.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A collection of #Halloween articles, from urban legends and vampires to witches and their familiars.

daily.jstor.org/editors-pick...
Halloween Stories - JSTOR Daily
Why are Victorians the default haunted house, what do ghosts have to do with the imagination, and why do we like to be scared?
daily.jstor.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Energy security is national security.

Investment in renewable and low-carbon power should be counted as national security spending, say retired military leaders:
https://bit.ly/4o7oVRb
Renewable energy investment should come from defence budgets, say retired military leaders
Former European officers say spending on low-carbon power would make nations more resilient to threats from potential aggressors
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news outlets’ homepages have plummeted in recent months — Nieman Lab reporters @andrewdeck.bsky.social and @hanaatameez.bsky.social found they declined by 87% starting in May of this year. They decided to find out why. buff.ly/rhtRGcr
The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects
Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.
www.niemanlab.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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EA employees and UVW-CWA slam Saudi-led EA buyout, call for regulatory scrutiny
EA employees and UVW-CWA slam Saudi-led EA buyout, call for regulatory scrutiny
"If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors' pockets—not to strengthen the company."
www.gamedeveloper.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
1999 Macpherson report found the MPS was institutionally racist

2022 IOPC report found instances of bullying, misogyny & aggressive behaviour

2022 HMICFRS report found misogyny, sexism & predatory behaviour

2023 Casey review found the force was institutionally racist, misogynistic & homophobic
October 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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This is incredible
June 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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'The European Research Council (ERC) has announced changes to its grant eligibility criteria for the 2027 calls for proposals, with scholars able to apply for a starting grant directly after finishing their PhD.' 1/3
Scholars eligible for grants straight after PhD under ERC rules
Researchers will be able to apply for starting grant directly after PhD, while eligibility windows for grants will overlap, European Research Council says
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Many find comfort in thinking that Greece was (and remains) a peripheral outlier, with developments and reactions which are not applicable elsewhere. But its portrayal as an image of the future back in 2008 seems increasingly more apt. 1/
September 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM