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Same. I hope they'll find a way out of this crisis!

A British drone maker backed by MoD funding has been bought by a US defence group now developing attack drones for Israel. Could British-funded military technology reach Israel despite UK arms export restrictions? My investigation for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/m...

Anthropic’s S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long—and it leaves out quite a few financial details. “Anthropic owes investors more information,” one analyst tells WIRED.

This is a really well done piece on surveillance at the US's southern border, great graphics, interviews, reconstructions of what the cameras can see. Surveillance is a subject which I think is really challenging to do, both because it can be difficult to get data... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The line between tech designed to care and tech designed for war is blurring. Our data is sold, leaked, and weaponised, and can end up being used to train lethal algorithms.

@moderation.bsky.app since when "stupid fascistic grifters" or "men" are a protected group? Get your crap together please

"Men are an embarrassing cringe gender" - this is true (go on, label me @moderation.bsky.app, I dare you)

Now more than ever, we need public interest technology alternatives to Big Tech platforms.

Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

Siri, what's the opposite of accountability

Yup. They are so back

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

I have a little segment here and I want to stress that I didn't coin the term "Guilt by Location". Adam Lichtenheld did. I mentioned it but that was eventually cut. Don't want trouble with revered colleagues :)

For millions, internet shutdowns have lasted weeks, months, or even years. From Annobón to Myanmar, they isolate communities and hinder documentation of abuses. Learn more in our new blogpost: www.accessnow.org/indefinite-i...

Join our Co-Executive Director, Arzu Geybulla, at #TrustConference2026 for an on-the-ground look at the evolving cyber threats facing journalists and civil society, and how we must fight back. Register: event.trustconference.com/event/2026/a...

This is an important recognition for the court, however it is somewhat problematic for the EU on the one hand to recognize the court's, and its officials, work upholding international justice, whilst simultaneously being indecisive & arguably weak regarding its responses to the US sanctions. #ICC

Together with @saskiabricmont.bsky.social and 33 other MEPs from 5 political groups, we urge @europarl.europa.eu, @ec.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu to investigate their exposure to zero-click spyware. More in our letter: 1/2

The European Union has awarded the 2026 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to the ICC and its officials, amid the Trump administration's outlandish attempts to destroy the Court and protect war criminals: www.cbc.ca/news/world/e... #ICC

Director @rondeibert.bsky.social gave a keynote address at SecTor 2026, warning that spyware and surveillance have been “super-charged” thanks to AI. Read about his talk in @darkreading.bsky.social. www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/c...

As @donncha.is & @jurrevanbergen.nl wrote on former Twitter, Amnesty Security Lab was also tracking the ad-based spyware facilitator Discover-Tech. Jurre now published an analysis of ad bidding data 2025-26 and a world-readable s3 bucket: www.threatnotify.org/projects/dt/ github.com/Threatnotify...

Just like CitizenLab, I was tracking Discover-Tech, the ad company providing ADINT services on the side, to both Bindecy and Candiru. Today at Threatnotify, we're publishing a breakdown of data from their ad bids and S3 bucket: www.threatnotify.org/projects/dt/ & github.com/Threatnotify...

So... Joseph Kabila has joined the FRN rebellion against the #DRC govt & even called for use of force. This is not good news; this will likely derail the current peace process. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

“Judge denies WhatsApp’s bid to hold spyware maker in contempt for allegedly targeting users,” via @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/whatsapp-den...

“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.” https://lnkd.in/etaqkrtb?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1792513807

Do I know anyone who is going to Mozilla Festival next week?

I saw a paper at a European conference that analyzed Russian attacks on civilian medical targets in Ukraine. It was a large N.

FAFO - Direct participation in hostilities edition bsky.app/profile/rike...

YES! A thousand times this!

Data centers are insufficiently segregated and insufficiently protected because users with military applications have been free riding on the civilian uses of technology. But the providers all have military contracts.

One thing I find really striking is this quote: “‘A school is protected unless it’s occupied by a military actor, but a data center isn’t.’” I think it’s reasonable to assume all data centers have military actors. Palantir, for example, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud.

1/5🧩Our new report, funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org, shows that people are being left in the dark when public bodies use #AI and algorithms to make decisions about their lives.

"Army Cyber Command is developing a platform to turn AI agents into autonomous weapons that can navigate and “neutralize” the computer systems of adversaries" Looking at the mess made by OpenAI when they left their AI agents unsupervised, I kind of see how this can possibly go horribly wrong.

Everything is so disappointing and tacky, we even got Temu-grade Star Wars

A former MEP who served on the committee investigating spyware abuse is the latest target of spyware. Despite evidence of widespread targeting within EU institutions, the EU has yet to propose legislation specifically addressing spyware misuse, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Vas Panagiotopoulos.

i keep hearing there is "infinity money" for organizations that want to work on "AI safety" but i can tell you that none of it is going to the organizations that have been working to address AI harms for years. we are all fighting over scraps while new orgs spring up over night with giant budgets