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• Post #4442039

  #DOGE’s wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/doges-inflated-wall-of-receipts-96-of-grant-savings-unverifiable-gao-says/ " DOGE’s inflated “Wall of Receipts”: 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says. " #musk is fraud

• Post #4381667

  NHS England admits its paperwork hid that #Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data - https://thenextweb.com/news/nhs-england-palantir-patient-data-disclosure-error just as we warned

• Post #4270313

  Made in Spain: #Surveillance tech banned in EU booms in #India - https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/made-in-spain-surveillance-tech-banned-in-eu-booms-in-india

• Post #4247039

  US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/government-map-mislabels-african-countries "contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools."

• Post #4097644

  Border agents entered his password. His phone erased itself. Now he faces a felony - https://boingboing.net/2026/07/25/grapheneos-duress-password-border-search.html "Prosecutors are going to try to persuade a court that deleting data to prevent a warrantless seizure is a crime."

• Post #4092426

  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@RichardAshwell/116980216339568628 done; this is an outrage

• Post #4068525

  Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient” - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/why-ai-needs-a-genie-coefficient.html " Asked to buy a ticket, a golem genie might spin up cloud servers to pose as millions of buyers from different addresses, improving your odds of getting a ticket while crowding out other users."

• Post #4060653

  #Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates - https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/meta-drops-out-of-a-major-clean-energy-pact-as-its-natural-gas-buildout-accelerates/ evil is as evil does...

• Post #4006945

  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@Wen/116962429175326883 well played, BBC lawyers...

• Post #3990639

  #EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel. - https://thenextweb.com/news/evs-outsold-gas-diesel-germany-first-time but too late to save the industry...

• Post #3986939

  RE: https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/116955911602813939 classic soviet approach...

• Post #3954301

  The European Parliament’s answer to its #AI worries: More AI - https://www.politico.eu/article/the-european-parliaments-answer-to-its-ai-worries-more-ai/ "allows users to choose between models operated securely within Parliament’s own infrastructure and more powerful services hosted externally."

• Post #3933926

  #Burnham risks Labour backlash if he reverses ban on new oil and gas drilling - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/18/burnham-expected-to-reverse-ban-on-new-oil-and-gas-drilling "Party manifesto pledged to honour existing North Sea exploration licences but not issue new ones" damn right #climatecrisis #renewables

• Post #3930104

  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@keefeglise/116945433455761284 well done, Bank of England...

• Post #3890386

  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/116934495727459853 how appropriate: tacky trash from a tacky, trash #trump

• Post #3880215

  29 countries sign a treaty to establish the World #AI Cooperation Organization - https://thenextweb.com/news/china-world-ai-cooperation-organization-waico-signed " Twenty-nine countries have signed an agreement to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization, a new intergovernmental body based in #Shanghai. "

• Post #3862044

  200 economists just admitted they can’t see where #AI is taking the economy - https://thenextweb.com/news/economists-ai-transformation-we-must-act-now "The remarkable part is not the warning about AI and jobs. It is that a profession famous for its scepticism is admitting it is driving in the fog."

• Post #3861983

  New energy report highlights solar power generation surge - https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/energy-institute-solar-power-surge "largest source of total energy supply growth for the first time outside of a recession. Solar alone accounted for 72% of that growth"

• Post #3861919

  US continues to shun #Ebola-infected citizens; second American sent to Germany - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/us-continues-to-shun-ebola-infected-citizens-second-american-sent-to-germany/ #murica the cowardly won't even look after its own citizens

• Post #3861832

  The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory - https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/ "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. "

• Post #3861671

  how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/how-europe-most-powerful-farming-lobby-copa-cogeca-killed-eu-pesticide-law Big Ag some of the most evil people on the planet

• Post #3856445

  Maltese politicians ‘involved’ in plot to kill Daphne Caruana Galizia, court hears - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/15/malta-politicians-plot-to-kill-daphne-caruana-galizia-court-hears

• Post #3853724

  EU’s Top Court: #Geo-Blocking Protects Publishers in #Copyright Disputes, #VPNs Not Liable - https://torrentfreak.com/eus-top-court-geo-blocking-protects-publishers-in-copyright-disputes-vpns-not-liable/ important

• Post #3836962

  ‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of #rape in Israeli detention - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/15/gaza-flotilla-activist-rape-complaint-israel-anna-liedtke "I cannot stress enough that it is way, way less than what Palestinian prisoners experience" #israel

• Post #3815913

  The Risks Of Anonymity In The Age Of Generative AI - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/27/the-risks-of-anonymity-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/ by me, fwiw... #ai #bitcoin #satoshi

• Post #3803109

  "It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m #NHS failure - https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a-waste-of-time-inside-palantir-nhs-peter-mandelson great report on staggering fiasco; #palantir must go, the sooner, the easier...

• Post #3791926

  US judge nullifies Trump deal to resolve IRS lawsuit in scathing ruling - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/trump-irs-ruling-judge-kathleen-williams "Williams sanctions president’s lawyers and says $10bn suit against IRS was brought for ‘improper purpose’"

• Post #3790643

  RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@ColinTheMathmo/116912500970035250 it should; but even if it were, most people lack basic graphical literacy to grasp its import

• Post #3718058

  Britain’s public sector runs on US cloud, and that is now a billion-pound risk - https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-cloud-dependency-billion-pound-risk " Almost every UK government body depends on a handful of American hyperscalers, concentrating billions of pounds and critical services in systems Whitehall cannot fully see inside " stupid

• Post #3693891

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116889735116919744 shameful - this is not democracy, this politics by bullying