Thomas Hegghammer
@hegghammer.net
Senior Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. Interested in jihadism, Middle East history, and digital methods. Linux enthusiast and nature-lover
Milde himmel for en sak. De svakeste blir sparket på mens de ligger nede. Og kommunens innbyggere blir straffet trippelt: først med at hypersensitive data lekker, så med at masse ressurser må brukes på opprydning, og så med at boten fra Datatilsynet må dekkes inn www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/xl...
Følsom info om tusenvis av innbyggere ble funnet på det mørke nettet
Svært sensitive opplysninger om tusenvis av innbyggere ble stjålet av kriminelle. NRK fant dem på det mørke nettet.
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Terrible article; don't read it, you fools "negativity rises over time because social media users seek to make unique comments on the same topic, and it is easier to differentiate oneself through negative comments than through positive comments" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Det er til å bli matt av. Jeg tror det hele skyldes at toppolitikken selekterer for mennesker som er totalt uinteressert i IT. Det er samme dynamikk som gjør at vi mangler en KI-strategi www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/tvin...
(+) Tvinger universitetene fra norsk til amerikansk IT-system
Kunnskapsdepartementet pålegger UiO og NTNU å bytte ut en egenutviklet sentral IT-løsning med et nytt system fra USA. – Helt i utakt med tiden, sier sjefingeniør.
morgenbladet.no
And now glm-5.2. This is wild artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm...
Thomas Hegghammer@hegghammer.net · 2mo agoI've been exploring open-source LLMs for agentic assistants since December, and I'm blown away by the latest batch of models (Kimi K2.7 Code and Minimax-M3). It's the first time I sense no practical difference, for my use, between them and the flagship models (Fable excluded) 1/2
Rare and attractive job opportunity: Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Politics at the University of Oslo. Deadline 15 September www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Politics (303281) | University of Oslo
Job title: Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Politics (303281), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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I've been exploring open-source LLMs for agentic assistants since December, and I'm blown away by the latest batch of models (Kimi K2.7 Code and Minimax-M3). It's the first time I sense no practical difference, for my use, between them and the flagship models (Fable excluded) 1/2
In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.
I have an idea - make bran flakes and other ‘junk food’ cereals subject to a social media style curfew but under 18s are only allowed to eat them AFTER 8:30 in the morning About as workable as the other plan www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bran flakes could be classed as junk food under new healthy eating guidelines
UK government wants to update rules to include naturally occurring ‘free sugars’ when determining what is unhealthy
theguardian.com
New analysis from me on tracking the Islamic State through the Worldwide Activity Map over the past 3+ years www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analy...
Tracking the Islamic State: Activity Trends, African Shifts, and U.S. Dormancy
As a landmark tool for tracking the group’s activity hits another sobering milestone, U.S. officials cannot let regional crises completely overshadow important shifts in jihadist threats around the wo...
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Good list of groups doing great work on surveillance tech. boltsmag.org/everything-e...
“Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Surveillance”: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
A legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and what public officials could be doing to restrict it.
boltsmag.org
All Souls College, Oxford, is seeking 5 Postdoctoral Research Fellows in - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies - History of Art/History of Music - Law - Life Science - Theoretical Computer Science These are 5-year appointments starting autumn 2027. Deadline: 4 Sep 2026 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships | All Souls College
asc.ox.ac.uk
"– Jeg er glad for å lære at det tilsynelatende finnes regjeringer som er enda mer naive overfor USA enn den nederlandske regjeringen. Jeg hadde ikke trodd det var mulig" www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/nede...
Tek-ekspert om Norge: «Ufattelig naiv» overfor USA
Bert Hubert går hardt ut mot regjeringens syn på amerikansk teknologi.
dagsavisen.no
On the IRGC operative who is allegedly behind 18 attacks on Jewish schools and synagogues. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Could this one man have been behind terrorist attacks on Jewish communities across Europe?
Legal papers, expert investigations and social media posts tell story of how a 32-year-old Iraqi appeared to run ‘proxy’ campaign
theguardian.com
💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.
⚡ Last places remaining - Apply now! Our Geopolitical Executive Education Programme this July is almost full. Join senior leaders, policymakers and industry professionals in Oxford to explore how geopolitical change is reshaping business and strategy. Apply now: https://tinyurl.com/yrvtnfd9
Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
nytimes.com
postdoctoral fellow in computational humanities and publishing: CMU cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...
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NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users. WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app. w/ @dell.bsky.social
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
wired.com
Dette er helt korrekt tilnærming og betryggende å høre: "– Strategien vår er å eie det som er permanent, det vil si data, betydningen av og styringen av dem. Og så la teknologien være utskiftbar." www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/fors...
(+) Forsvaret bekrefter at de vurderer Palantirs krigsteknologi
Systemet Maven fra Palantir kan hjelpe Norge å vinne på slagmarken, sier Forsvarets teknologidirektør Bjørn Tore Markussen, som er imponert over hva det kan utrette. Men er det trygt å invitere det am...
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All Souls College, Oxford, is seeking 5 Postdoctoral Research Fellows in - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies - History of Art/History of Music - Law - Life Science - Theoretical Computer Science These are 5-year appointments starting autumn 2027. Deadline: 4 Sep 2026 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships | All Souls College
asc.ox.ac.uk
Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 402)
For the research project “Public Attitudes towards the Liberal Script” (PALS) at the Center for Civil Society Research, in collaboration with other research units and the Cluster of Excellence...
wzb.eu
Paired with the news that Canada is opting against buying US surveillance aircraft, this news out of Norway further underscores the extent to which allies are hedging against an increasingly unreliable and even predatory US. www.reuters.com/world/norway...
Norway will come under France's nuclear umbrella, says PM Stoere
Norway will come under France's nuclear umbrella, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told news agency NTB on Wednesday, as concerns grow in Europe over U.S. commitment to the region's security.
reuters.com
