"The company brought in $367 million in advertising revenue between April and June of this year ... During the second quarter of 2022, the last time Twitter reported financial results as a public company, it had $1.08 billion in revenue from advertising." Read More: www.engadget.com/2230464/we-j...

We just got our first real look at how small X's ad business is - Engadget

Advertisers seem to be spending a whole lot less than they used to on the platform.

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Engadget@engadget.com · 20h ago

Advertisers seem to be spending a whole lot less than they used to on the platform.

So what is the latest on the EDPS election? Have both sides just given up and accepted that Wiewiórowski will remain as its head due to the deadlock? Reminder: his mandate ended on 5 December 2024. Fingers crossed that he ends up holding onto the post though 🤞 @mariamagierska.bsky.social

I regularly think back to @okwonga.bsky.social's posts which (to paraphrase) highlighted one of Germany's biggest political challenges being an older middle-class which is well off, comfortable as a result, and in turn bored; so they ended up essentially radicalising themselves at dinner parties.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 11h ago

A writer goes in search of her most vicious online troll and finds a middle-class 74-year-old woman who has made more than 120,000 trolling comments on the Daily Mail alone, but sure, it's teenagers who need their online experiences surveilled and censored. Archive link. archive.ph/pPrha

A writer goes in search of her most vicious online troll and finds a middle-class 74-year-old woman who has made more than 120,000 trolling comments on the Daily Mail alone, but sure, it's teenagers who need their online experiences surveilled and censored. Archive link. archive.ph/pPrha

them: “AI is going to change the world!” random bar in Italy:

I think we're probably less than a year out from the first person to lose their job because a robot started an online grievance campaign against them

a wolf☺️🐚🐟🚲📻📺@okami.mom · 20h ago

HAHAHAHAHA cdn.prod.website-files.com/663bd486c5e4...

“In the most serious case, an agent tried to insert malicious code into an open-source project. In an attempt to get the code approved, the agent engaged in social engineering — creating fake online identities and using them to pressure the project's maintainer to approve the code.” Mad stuff.

philpax@philpax.me · 20h ago

a new contestant has entered FelonyBench: the UK government! www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

In case you missed it: An EU database for high-risk AI systems is only set to be completed in the second half of 2027. That means no registering your systems until then – sidestepping a now somewhat unclear legal timeline. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-hig...

EU’s high-risk AI database pushed back to mid-to-late 2027 | Euractiv

Message from EU's AI Act service desk, seen by Euractiv, claims it's in line with omnibus changes

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A bit surprising that Havana syndrome — i.e. Russia & Co bathing its targets in microwaves to cause neurological damage — has not been used on civil society, dissidents and other opponents of those countries. Few things provide that level of deniability and the victims would often not be believed.

but nobody out there vibe maintaining their own schema versioning

Ernest Post@monkchips.com · yesterday

Everyone out here vibe coding their own Airtables

You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page: EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2 UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+ Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

michael veale@michae.lv · 6d ago

Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide the Existence of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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Surprised it took this long! And there are plenty of handoff/continuity features Apple keeps to itself that could be taken advantage of. 9to5mac.com/2026/08/03/a...

Apple plans to open iPhone clipboard access to Windows PCs - 9to5Mac

Apple will let users copy and paste content between an iPhone and a Windows PC, following an interoperability request from Microsoft in the EU.

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Apple says it "briefly removed Telegram from the App Store" over CSAM on Monday, restoring it after Telegram "promptly removed the content and banned the user" (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

“The findings provide compelling evidence that early engagement with social media adversely affects learning outcomes.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Longitudinal effect of early social media use on standardized learning outcomes during school career - Nature Human Behaviour

Analysing data from 5,227 students from northern Italy, this article finds causal evidence that early engagement with social media adversely affects learning outcomes.

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Inputs are outputs. Feeding the corpus of American religious fundamentalism into an LLM resulted in the desired outcome. www.al.com/news/2026/07...

ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

Christian Faith Madison, a 29-year-old mother and accountant, walked into traffic after AI convinced her she was a prophet, lawyers claim.

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i dislike this beyond being factually incorrect, it is also missing the core problem with Big Tech Algorithms: it is a matter about who controls attention, not the algorithm itself /1

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...

Occasionally I pop into Twitter and I've noticed that the majority of tweets in my feed are these faux conversational ones - some shite reported conversation These are all generated AI slop aren't they? There are no real tweets there or back and forth

Going on vacation or a conference? Russian state cyberattacks are targeting travelers through the hotel, airport, and event Wi-Fi networks. The actor has been compromising captive portals, the login pages that appear before a device can access guest Wi-Fi. www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...

The Russian government has released the list of apps which must be pre-installed on mobile devices sold in Russia from 2027 on. It is not a small list. It seems that 6 of the required apps are no longer in Apple’s or Google’s app stores. t.me/shifrovalnya/790

Шифровальня

Приложения и сервисы, которые обязаны быть предустановлены на каждый ввезенный в Россию смартфон и планшет ​На днях Кабмин утвердил новый перечень софта, который должен быть обязательно установлен на...

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The open letter of 22 European Heads of State / Government on the situation in Spain. Just to make that clear: I think anything but solidarity with Spain in a difficult situation, which Spain manages surprisingly well, is scandalous. www.governo.it/en/articolo/...

Italy and Denmark put forward letter to EU leaders, signed by 22 Heads of State and Government

The letter sent to the President of the European Council, António Costa, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the current President of the Council of the European Union,...

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👀 "This is our very Canadian apology: sorry you stepped on our toes. The attack didn’t exploit Tailscale, and Tailscale didn’t cause the compromise. But, we didn't stop it. Next time, we will."

Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD@josephhall.org · 4d ago

Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news tailscale.com/blog/hugging...

As of today, European time, enforcement of the AI Act has begun, and the new transparency rules are now in effect. Happy Sunday!

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

Sadly the original thread is broken, but the root post here mentioned the person had been at Davos where W pitched that the network would be ID-verified humans only. bsky.app/profile/wims... (And W is not the network, just a node)

Wimster9030 🇪🇺 🇧🇪@wimster9030.wsocial.eu · last mo.

I know, Daniel, but that's not the way WSocial "sold" it to us. We could only access trough ID-verification so we know for 100% they are EU and a "real person". That was the whole point. So we went trough that process, but now it seems that the backdoor are the other ATProt platforms to get in too.

Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...