Glyn Moody

Hacker News: "500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests…" - Mastodon 🐘

Joshua Byrd :mastodon:: "New from our team: Pedestrian deaths have started…" - Brisbane Social

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧: "**Israel Blocking Hundreds of Wheelchairs for Inj…" - Mastodon server hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kriszta Satori: "#BBCNews - Europe's car makers are in crisis. Wil…" - Journa.host

Ivey Janette McClelland: "Trump administration tells Congress it will admit…" - Mastodon

thenextweb.com

NHS England admits its paperwork hid that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data

NHS England admits its paperwork failed to disclose that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data in the Federated Data Platform.

Wen: "So what happens next? - will the lawsuit be dro…" - mastodon.scot

thenextweb.com

Anthropic says Claude found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

An AI agent spotted DNA repeats by eye and led Anthropic to a new enzyme system. What the system does is still unknown.

"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure

Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state

Tuta: "#ChatControl 1.0 HAS PASSED - despite a majorit…" - Mastodon

thenextweb.com

EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel.

Germany registered 84,057 EVs in June, beating hybrids (83,315), petrol (60,796) and diesel (33,862). EVs now hold 28.4% of the market. Tesla Model Y led.

thenextweb.com

New Zealand rules out a VPN ban after a fierce privacy backlash

New Zealand denies plans to ban VPNs under its under-16 social media ban after a fierce privacy backlash, as age-check laws keep drifting toward encryption.

Made in Spain: Surveillance tech banned in EU booms in India

From Delhi to Jaipur, India is rolling out facial recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens. Investigate Europe has found that behind much of the software is Spanish company Herta Security – but critics argue the government promise of public safety is not the main aim.

POLITICO

The European Parliament’s answer to its AI worries: More AI

The institution is opening its doors to models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral as it tries to bring lawmakers’ growing use of the technology under control.

TechCrunch

Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates | TechCrunch

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now it's dropping out of an industry renewable energy group.

Colin the Mathmo: "This graph should be front page news. Instead, t…" - Mathstodon

thenextweb.com

Britain’s public sector runs on US cloud, and that is now a billion-pound risk

Nearly every UK public body depends on US hyperscalers, concentrating billions of pounds and critical services in systems Whitehall cannot fully see inside.

thenextweb.com

200 economists just admitted they can’t see where AI is taking the economy

Over 200 economists, 16 of them Nobel laureates, signed a statement called We Must Act Now, warning AI could upend the economy faster than we can measure.

Pinsent Masons

New energy report highlights solar power generation surge

Recent global energy analysis highlights the surge in solar power generation, which is in turn helping renewables become the largest source of total energy supply growth for the first time outside of a recession.

torrentfreak.com

EU's Top Court: Geo-Blocking Protects Publishers in Copyright Disputes, VPNs Not Liable * TorrentFreak

CJEU ruled that publishers who use state-of-the-art geo-blocking are not liable for copyright infringement, even when users bypass it.

The Political Librarian

The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory

Written from the perspective of the Internet Archive and the Our Future Memory movement, this article repeats an urgent call for four digital rights that would allow libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of preserving history and providing access to information. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of archival ephemerality, whic

Richard Ashwell: "Did you know a barrister is facing jail just for …" - Climate Justice Social

BBC News Top Stories: "Winning team will get World Cup rings with engrav…" - Mastodon App UK

thenextweb.com

29 countries sign a treaty to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization

Twenty-nine countries have signed a treaty to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization, an intergovernmental AI body headquartered in Shanghai.

Schneier on Security

Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient” - Schneier on Security

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in IEEE Spectrum. Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient. There’s often a gap between one person’s request and another’s understanding. Most of the time, we bridge it using general knowledge. For example, if you ask a friend to