Ian Brown :fedi:

‘Meta will license technology from artificial intelligence image and video generation start-up Midjourney, as the social media group shifts towards working with third parties as its struggle to keep pace with rivals.’

Client Challenge

Sam Altman, #OpenAI CEO: “young people are already using #AI chatbots as therapists and life coaches. So why not add friend and partner to the mix?” 🤮

Client Challenge

“It is time we demand that the tech sector comply with the same laws as everyone else. Only when technology businesses compete on a level legal playing field will we see how inevitable their innovations really are.”

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“To almost everyone I know from the global south, the fact that the west seems only to pay only lip service to the suffering of Gazans, Ethiopians, South Sudanese and others comes across as distinctly racial.” -Ed Luce

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“Like programming, translating is part skill, part art, and I didn’t get two university degrees in language and translation just to deliver barely passable trash. I took pride in my work, and I wasn’t going to let anyone put my name under a garbage product.” 💯 #AI #coding From: @npub13jwx...j6a3

Exquisite.social

Thom, Itanium™ influencer (@thomholwerda@exquisite.social)

Take it from someone who's already been through this. https://www.osnews.com/story/142956/vibe-coding-yourself-into-irrelevance/

'Apps offering virtual private networks… made up half of the top 10 most popular free apps on the UK’s App Store for iOS this weekend' “We would normally associate these large spikes in sign-ups with major civil unrest,” #Proton said. “This clearly shows that adults are concerned about the impact universal age verification laws will have on their privacy.” #OnlineSafetyAct #VPN

Client Challenge

Edinburgh Univ. is 'one of the “UK’s most financially entangled institutions”, with nearly £25.5m invested in four tech corporations – Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM – that were “central to Israel’s #surveillance apparatus and the ongoing #Gaza destruction”.'

the Guardian

Edinburgh University could unadopt antisemitism definition after report into its colonial links

One of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities is reviewing whether to launch divestment drive and drop antisemitism definition

🇬🇧 ‘stepping up raids on [delivery] riders’ gathering points & bolstering existing measures to suspend those who rent out legitimate accounts… to prove to international partners that it will not let an unregulated labour market become a “pull factor” for irregular #migration’

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“Who knew giving a ton of money to #CERN would lead to the #WWW? Who knew a Dutch free #OS (#minix) would incentivise a Finnish gradute student to write #Linux (the OS platform on most the cloud, half the smart phones out there)? Who knew that some small TV company (the #BBC) request for a simple low cost computer would lead to the founding of #ARM (that has more chips in the world than Intel or anyone else - again in your mobile device)?” 💯 From: @npub1vd0q...kdk8

Todon.nl

jon crowcroft (@tforcworc@todon.nl)

how to reform a national research institute. feel free to forward on other meeja/channels https://paravirtualization.blogspot.com/2025/07/how-to-re...

These abysmal police arrests of elderly, peaceful #Gaza protestors are bringing the UK’s counter-terrorism laws into well-deserved ill repute 🤢 From: @npub1prmf...a9wj https://mastodonapp.uk/@wood5y/114884709361419631