🇬🇧 Security Service Director-General Ken ‘McCallum said that most of #MI5’s work two decades ago was shaped by “choices being taken in caves in Afghanistan” but was now often based on “choices being taken in boardrooms” by tech companies on #encryption policies.’ https://www.thetimes.com/article/b6838edc-52d8-41ea-8de5-6a8404043d85?shareToken=c5d3ab34d3892164765318ca7c0da8aa
“#Musk has been radicalised by his own platform,” said a British tech lobbyist, referring to the algorithms on #X that have been feeding him content about British politics. “I wouldn’t underestimate the extent to which the trolling is peacocking for the rightwing bros in the ‘manosphere’ he’s now in with.”
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‘Most of #Ireland’s huge budget surplus — expected to be €24bn this year — is driven by US companies based in the country, making it vulnerable to any [#Trump tax] policy shift. Besides global tech companies, Ireland hosts manufacturing operations for pharmaceutical company Pfizer and chipmaker Intel.’
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#Enshittification is Macquarie's word of year! Well-deserved, @npub1fdrp...lvhs, who ‘adds a fourth stage to the tech platforms’ scatological journey from being good to users, to abusing them in favour of their customers, to abusing their customers to serve themselves. “Then they die”’
the Guardian
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
🤣 Universal Music Group “conspired with and paid currently unknown parties to use ‘bots’ to artificially inflate the spread of [Kendrick Lamar’s] Not Like Us and deceive consumers into believing the song was more popular than it was in reality,” Drake’s lawyers write
the Guardian
Drake claims UMG and Spotify ‘artificially inflated’ Kendrick Lamar’s diss track Not Like Us
Feud escalates as rapper’s lawyers file two petitions alleging Universal Music Group and streaming giant conspired while also accusing them of de...
‘The #Mate70 smartphone set to be released on Tuesday will feature #HarmonyOS Next, which #Huawei hopes to establish as a third major mobile operating system alongside Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android… Huawei says it already has 15,000 native apps and services running, including must-haves like #Tencent’s #WeChat messaging service, #Alibaba’s #Taobao online mall and #Meituan’s food delivery app.’
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@npub1nwkd...dgjz my iOS app is crashing after 10 seconds every time I load it 😭
Moment of truth as #Bluesky hits critical mass. Will its #moderation tools scale? Especially without aggressive monetisation to support them 🧐 (#Mastodon’s distributed model will hopefully get to the same point in future…) From: @npub1cqh0...8tnn
Open Rights Group
James Baker (@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org)
Interesting to see Bluesky reporting huge increases in moderation reports including harassment, CSAM etc https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/p...