today in "we're not ready": "in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations" https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing

I used to work here. It's an amazingly important institution with an astonishing history. https://www.jodrellbank.net/explore/stories/a-message-of-thanks-from-jodrell-bank-observatory/

A message of Thanks from Jodrell Bank Observatory - Jodrell Bank

As a result of the recent news, we have received an extraordinary number of messages, and it has been incredibly moving to read so many heartfelt expressions of support.

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Today in "we're not ready": “any system that integrates an LLM into a trusted workflow today must assume that attacker-controlled content entering the model’s context will result in compromise at some rate” https://bit.ly/4x7dPiW

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation

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That was fun! With thanks to those who persisted in spite of the unexpectedly cold evening. Huge thanks to Adrian Philpott for the wonderful visuals! Thanks to Sophie Garrett for selection: the first person I spoke to afterwards said: "This was the perfect thing to end EMF camp with"(!) [photo: TJS]

an update on my 2009 version, based on some conversations over the weekend at #emfcamp

Measuring the rate of change of impact rather than planetary proxies https://agentgav.medium.com/are-we-just-drawing-epicycles-9829717421b8

Are we just drawing epicycles?

Measuring the rate of change of impact rather than planetary proxies

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First #EMFcamp Constellation meet-up now scheduled for Friday 11am. Come and say hi! Marshmallows will be provided (no, there is no specific reason why) https://emfcamp.cl8.io

#emfcamp is in a few days (suddenly!)...if you'd like to join my experiment to encourage serendipity, 33 people have signed up to https://emfcamp.cl8.io and you can too! (pls share)

Today in "we're not ready" Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646

#emfcamp - experiment to help us connect before/during/after. 29 people signed up so far -- can we get to a Dunbar number? https://emfcamp.cl8.io

An early origin of sending 'digitised' images ... this is 1886, but am sure there are earlier examples? https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t41r9kr03&view=page&seq=99

I'll be playing at #EMFcamp this year! Main music stage, Sunday, 11pm https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/347-binary-dust

#emfcamp people... I made an experimental constellation just for us and 23 people have signed up so far. Can you help us get to a Dunbar number before it starts? FAQ: https://dgen.net/0/constellation + sign up now https://emfcamp.cl8.io

Constellations: the guide

Constellations are an invitation-only social directories. They are a place where people can connect, share what they are interested in, get a sense of who’s working on what, and keep loosely …

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Today in "can we reinvent nationalisation and/or just paying tax" OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/78430b39-a93c-48ed-800c-4335c3af4e0d (make it 51%?)

#emfcamp people... I made an experimental constellation just for us and 23 people have signed up so far. Can you help us get to a Dunbar number before it starts? FAQ: https://dgen.net/0/constellation + sign up now https://emfcamp.cl8.io

Constellations: the guide

Constellations are an invitation-only social directories. They are a place where people can connect, share what they are interested in, get a sense of who’s working on what, and keep loosely …

dgen.net

#emfcamp people... I made an experimental constellation just for us and 23 people have signed up so far. Can you help us get to a Dunbar number before it starts? FAQ: https://dgen.net/0/constellation + sign up now https://emfcamp.cl8.io

Constellations: the guide

Constellations are an invitation-only social directories. They are a place where people can connect, share what they are interested in, get a sense of who’s working on what, and keep loosely …

dgen.net

Fable 5 suspended & GPT-5.6 government-gated. Open source models can be run right now (which are similar, on meaningful benchmarks): GLM5.2, DeepSeek v4, Kim K2.7, Qwen 3.5, MiniMax M3. Thoughts? (via https://www.threads.com/@vaibhavsisinty/post/DaIwFOLmhAq )

Vaibhav Sisinty (@vaibhavsisinty) on Threads

Fable 5 is suspended. GPT-5.6 is government-gated. Most people have no idea there are open source models running right now that match them on the benchmarks that actually matter. Full weights. Download and run. Here are the 5 you should know. 🧵

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two phrases that have caught my attention this year 1. Cognitive offloading 2. Epistemic contamination AI and climate change; politics and societal change; rapid evolutions of our age

Today in "we're not ready": “Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. The timeline is not years, it is months,” https://bit.ly/3QuhU1h

AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns

Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI model

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Despite UK politicians affirming repeatedly that the Online Safety Act would solve all of the problems with online safety, they’re now going ahead with a social media ban for under-16s. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It

This week, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the internet by announcing a ban on social media for users under 16 that is set to take effect in

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It's exactly a year to the day since the UK Data Act became law(!) Fitting then, that Maria Harris (Open Property Data Association) announce a major programme to help anyone buying a home. https://gov.uk/government/news/homebuying-shake-up-to-slash-delays-cut-costs-and-stop-sales-falling-through

Homebuying shake-up to slash delays, cut costs and stop sales falling through

New rules introduced to simplify homebuying and selling making the process easier and simpler.

gov.uk

#emfcamp #emf2026 hello lovely people... I made an experimental constellation just for us. emfcamp.cl8.io ("a what?" you say, dgen.net/0/constellat...)

Constellations: the guide

Constellations are an invitation-only social directories. They are a place where people can connect, share what they are interested in, get a sense of who’s working on what, and keep loosely …

dgen.net

today in "we're not ready" + sad-lol-face: "the keynote speaker said absolutely nothing about using Claude to write his academic work until I intervened in the Q&A" https://bsky.app/profile/alwaystheself.bsky.social/post/3mohg5hld6s2a

Crystal Fleming クリスタル (@alwaystheself.bsky.social)

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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Y? X or W or B or... Meh https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty

W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty

European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.

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Web 0.0 Is it time?

Today in "we're not ready" Anthropic has suspended its powerful new AI model after US authorities raised security concerns just days following its public release. Anthropic ordered to suspend foreign nationals from using Fable 5...as "too powerful". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI suspended over security fears

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, released publicly this week, sparked concerns about cybersecurity and hacking.

bbc.co.uk

If you're in need of a bit of a Friday boost, you might enjoy this. The act of people just getting together to make things is always just lovely and we reflected that, unlike COVID, the current global sentiment carries different kind of weight https://dgen.net/0/2026/06/12/constellation-reflections/

Constellation reflections

This has happened before, but I thought I’d write it down this time, because it’s such a lovely story. After a few years of quietness while I built ib1.org, a month ago I relaunched the…

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"outcomes-focused workshop of real-world challenges / problem statements looking for space-based data solutions, for end users & experts", Reading, June 25 12:30-4:30PM https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/space-data-for-national-resilience-a-london-climate-action-week-workshop-tickets-1989224057705

Space Data For National Resilience - a London Climate Action Week Workshop

An outcomes-focused workshop of real-world challenges / problem statements looking for space-based data solutions, for end users & experts

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Now you have somewhere to take your evidence to: please do. UK AI Economics Institute: "Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and Microsoft…commit to close collaboration…in support of evidence-based policymaking" https://bit.ly/4urUcRh

Introducing the AI Economics Institute

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Not your normal Sunday evening. Everyone ok, but 3 boats nearly set on fire tonight. Police are investigating whether it was "malicious or just reckless"