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Games Against Borders symposium

Join us in London for a day of discussions about games, borders and resistance. In partnership with the Games Transformed 2026 festival, Oct 30 - Nov1

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Why did Andy Burnham do a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" during the Makerfield by-election, while dodging the press elsewhere? ➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHBc...

🟡 NEW: Crypto, and its cash, gets snarled in the Senate Cryptocurrency firms are facing a nightmare scenario in the Senate, where the shaky state of the industry’s top priority is threatening its plans to unleash midterm campaign cash against its enemies. www.semafor.com/article/07/2...

Exclusive: Crypto, and its cash, gets snarled in the Senate

The industry is pushing for a key vote to help spend its midterm war chest against its enemies. Until then, it may not know who they are.

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🗞️ 'Journalism is moving away from a shared public information space towards a fragmented system in which access to reliable news is increasingly divided'. Journalists and media experts reflected on what lies ahead for news, audiences and the wider media ecosystem ⬇️

'An uneven future': experts warn of inequality and AI disruption in media | King's College London

At the event held as part of the Digital Futures Institute’s Festival of Storytelling, journalists and media scholars warned that the future of journalism will be shaped by widening inequality, declin...

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Newsletter: The Clarity Act cryptocurrency market structure bill may well be dead, as the crypto industry has spent $200 million to get a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass and a president too corrupt to sign anything that might meaningfully limit his grift. www.citationneeded.news/issue-107/

Issue 107 – An unserious offer

The crypto industry has spent $200 million to get a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass and a president too corrupt to sign anything that might meaningfully limit his grift.

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Britain will use AI to assess ages of asylum seekers in a world-first, with other countries likely to follow suit But our investigation, based on a leaked report and our own algorithmic audit, finds the technology is deeply unreliable

Asylum by Algorithm

The UK has turned to AI to determine the age of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.

lighthousereports.com

A ban on social media for under 16s would likely require *everyone* to prove their age in order to use social media platforms, which means handing biometric data over to commercial tech companies. www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

Online harms: Millions could be forced to use unregulated age verification

Open Rights Group has responded to the government’s latest announcements on online safety, including proposals to: Big Tech Programme Manager James Baker said: “The Government is playing whack-a-mole...

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💡 We’re pleased to share a new line-up of events from the Digital Investigations Lab programme, supported by @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social. If you’re interested in digital investigations and investigative journalism, explore the upcoming sessions below:

WFP cyber-attack: Is nearly all of Gaza’s population exposed? www.thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/2....

WFP cyber-attack: Is nearly all of Gaza’s population exposed?

Notes on how aid works: What WFP leaves out of data breach reports, the humanitarian reset’s neglected crises, and Palantir.

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Lots of great free events today at our Festival of Storytelling, central London (King's Strand campus). Hear from award-winning authors, join workshops, watch a film, or attend music performances. Open to everyone! www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

🤖 On 11 June, join us to explore how emerging technologies are transforming human connection across health, education, work and beyond. Hear from Sir Anthony Seldon, Dr Rachael Kent @kingsdh.bsky.social, Professor Steven Connor & Dr @richardcole.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social 🔽

International Digital Futures Network - The Futures of Interaction | King's College London

Digital learning, AI companions, healthcare tech & the infrastructure behind it all. A multi-domain event on the future of interaction – between humans, machines, and what we must protect.

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🎟️ Have you booked your ticket yet? Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social invites you to join us for the Digital Futures Institute Festival of Storytelling on 2-4 June. 🔗 Discover our free event programme: tickettailor.com/events/dfistory

My upcoming book has an official page with Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology 🤯 @princetonupress.bsky.social When Blockchain Meets Aid: The Human Costs of Innovation Excited for the release in 2027 press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

📣 Lecture: Dronotope: Emerging Technologies & the Politics of Timeline Visualisations 🗓 11 May, 17:30–19:30 📍 Macadam Building, Strand Campus, KCL Dr Beryl Pong shares her work on Dronotope, a creative “untimeline” of recent cross-sectoral drone developments 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

Select tickets – Dronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations - Beryl Pong – Macadam Building (MAC 405), Strand Campus, King’s College London

Dronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations - Beryl Pong – Macadam Building (MAC 405), Strand Campus, King’s College London, Mon 11 May 2026 - Data visualisations ofte...

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How is the gig economy reshaping healthcare? New research by our colleague Funda Ustek Spilda @fundaustek.bsky.social explores the rise of platform-based nursing in the US and its implications for labour and regulation. Read “Uber for Nursing Part II”: ainowinstitute.org/publications...

Uber For Nursing Part II - AI Now Institute

A seismic shift is rocking the healthcare industry. Uber’s business model—the “gigification” of labor—and lobbying practices have made their way to healthcare staffing.

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A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The state of the state

Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

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AI agents are entering everyday economic life - will we still need human IDs to make transactions? counterparty.substack.com/p/the-last-h...

The Last Human in the Loop

When payment no longer requires identity

counterparty.substack.com

“This racist study ban by the home secretary will do nothing but detract the brightest in the world from studying in the UK. This government has abandoned a purposive and evidence-based approach to lawmaking.”

Six students challenge Home Office visa ban on four countries

Sudanese and Afghan students with offers to study in UK say government’s ‘emergency brake’ is discriminatory

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NEW | Hundreds of companies are pitching shady surveillance tech to EU migration agencies through industry events that evade lobbying transparency rules. See the 450+ companies involved ⬇️ www.accessnow.org/companies-po...

Opportunity to contribute to a public consultation on the UK's digital ID scheme roadmap-for-modern-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk/digital-id-c...

Digital ID consultation

The government is consulting on digital ID. Have your say.

roadmap-for-modern-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk

I was asked by @techpolicypress.bsky.social‬ what I am watching for as a tech scholar in the ongoing war. Here is my take:

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The expanding war in Iran brought to the fore questions about the role of technology in armed conflict, including the controversial use of new artificial intelligence technologies. Tech Policy Press invited perspectives from experts on what they are watching for as the situation unfolds.

Our new project, 'Crypto Without Borders?', investigates the adoption of an emerging type of cryptocurrency - stablecoins - in humanitarian aid. Work with us? www.kingstalentbank.com/jobs/show/17... @rorycrew.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

Our report, 'Digital Identity and Migration: Struggles for Equitable Technology Governance' is now live 🤖 Check it out, alongside our other publications @digsovobs.bsky.social www.digitalsovereigntyobservatory.org/publications

"the stablecoin saga has become a powerful bellwether, not just for shifts in the tectonic plates of global finance — but US politics and geopolitics too." @gilliantett.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6718...

Crypto’s battle with the banks is splitting Trump’s base

A fight over stablecoin rules is really about whether deposits at major financial institutions will disappear

ft.com

Our new research initiative @digsovobs.bsky.social has a page! Give us a follow. The Digital Sovereignty Observatory examines how emerging technologies reshape social and political boundaries. @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social @sixfouronea.net @emryss.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/research/the...

The Digital Sovereignty Observatory | King's College London

The Digital Sovereignty Observatory examines how emerging technologies reshape social and political boundaries.

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📢 At the bleeding edge of #DigitalSovereignty struggles: critics are warning that the rapid uptake of "World" in Latin America—nearly 40M app users and 17M eyeballs verified!—is built on weak legal frameworks and loopholes that sidestep data protection. www.biometricupdate.com/202602/world...

World’s success in LatAm is based on dubious grounds, says digital rights activist | Biometric Update

The NGO says World's success is the result of a weak rule of law and sophisticated technological processes that allow its to avoid data protection rules.

biometricupdate.com

Struggles for sovereign payments infrastructure: Europe is pushing to break its reliance on US-controlled payment giants like Visa & Mastercard, driving new pan-European systems (like Wero) and sparking debate about financial autonomy. europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/eur...

Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard

A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard

europeanbusinessmagazine.com

'ChatGPT is Trump's biggest donor, and ICE uses ChatGPT'. quitgpt.org

QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors

Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

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Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.

The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters

Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.

washingtonpost.com

An Illustrated Guide to Digital Rights This Zine version of Understanding Digital Rights has been produced by top Zambian illustrator, Kiss Abraham. Free to download from the Institute of Development Studies. www.ids.ac.uk/publications...

Understanding Digital Rights: An Illustrated Guide - Institute of Development Studies

An illustrated guide to understanding digital rights, why we need them and how to secure them. It details organisations working in this area.

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