Patrick Seurre
@patrick.seurre.com
Professional bit wrangler and multiple kidney transplant recipient. A regular user of the NHS for 30 years. Interested in FoI, data protection, Brexit & science fiction/fantasy. No requests for donations. No DMs. I refuse to go through age verification.
UK police legal database breach exposes details of more than 100,000 officers and staff www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/se...?
UK police legal database breach exposes details of more than 100,000 officers and staff
The contact details of more than 100,000 police officers, police staff and criminal justice professionals have been exposed following a cyberattack on a legal database ...
computing.co.uk
RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."
The US military while conducting a GPS jamming exercise could have caused a civilian aircraft to crash into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
wired.com
EU wants to wean itself off the teat of Thiel. So should the UK. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe wants to kick its Palantir habit
The U.S.-based data crunching firm is deeply embedded in the most sensitive European workflows, from policing to intelligence to health care. Finding alternatives won’t be easy.
politico.eu
this is unacceptable; if they don't want a qualified medic, they don't get to choose another
Lomelindi12@lomelindi12.bsky.social · 2d agoIf only staff could say “Fine, you’re free to fuck off & pay a white medic to treat you”
Oh no! Not Dickie too!? Say it ain’t so. Clearly a vendetta by the Establishment, scared of liberty, democracy and free speech. And in no way a cabal of right wing grifters who’ve been fraudulently larking about in public view for the last decade. How dare you suggest their pants are on fire? 🔥🔥🔥
*Government: we need a sense of place and stronger regional policy to bring us together! *Also government: it's okay to shut this local uni campus in an area of high deprivation! *Thick-as-mince country. No joined-up thinking anywhere. 🇬🇧 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Essex's Southend campus shuts and staff say goodbye
The university says the closure is due to financial pressures, leading to 400 staff redundancies.
bbc.co.uk
Farage has just released a video begging Reform supporters to come to Clacton to help him win his unnecessary by-election. All going well in the Battle with the Bin then.
Been waiting in the A&E department now for four hours. Still waiting. I know disabilities can be hidden, but even so most of the people here look like they would be better served by an out of hours service run by their GP’s practice. I wonder how much of the waiting is because that didn’t exist?
Make no mistake, this woman is a shit-stirring idiot.
“Italy’s govt & data protection authority are at odds over a plan to retain face biometrics from sensitive public areas for seven days. The dispute hinges on whether retrospective analysis amounts to live facial recognition under the EU AI Act” www.biometricupdate.com/202607/italy...
Italy’s government, DPA argue over legality of face biometrics retention plan | Biometric Update
At issue is whether the collection of biometric data continuously and subsequent retrospective processing, as part of a forensic investigation, counts as LFR.
biometricupdate.com
🔥 “I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”
Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership. Too many journalists amplify water industry PR. Please follow the advice in this link and lodge your complaint.
Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership
Thames Water CEO lied about public ownership on the BBC. It is time Ofcom and the BBC corrected the record
weownit.org.uk
The EU's AI safety unit is the first major global effort to implement an AI rulebook. It has singled out four specific risks: 1. AI enabling a chemical, biological, or nuclear attack 2. Losing control of an AI model 3. An AI model launching a cyber attack 4. AI conducting large-scale manipulation.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 6d agoThe European Commission formed its AI safety unit two years ago to oversee the actions of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies. This weekend, it will gain an arsenal of new regulatory powers.
A $2 sticker let me bypass the Meta Glasses' anti-creep feature
A $2 sticker let me bypass the Meta Glasses' anti-creep feature - Engadget
Meta's smart glasses are supposed to alert bystanders when they're recording. Bypassing those safety features is trivially easy, unfortunately.
engadget.com
All of this is a feature, not a bug, and all of this is entirely human-orchestrated. Do not be fooled.
Forbes@forbes.com · 6d agoAnthropic said the earliest of these incidents occurred in April, and it has notified all three companies that were affected by the hack.
Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.
Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says
LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance
ft.com
Well, they're on their way back to Morocco actually, as they never had any way to reach mainland Spain, let alone the UK, but who needs facts when you're Bobby J the King of Bullshit.
"Sinking in Polls, Farage Plans Week of Attacks on Immigration" Reform plan to make next week Immigration Week It could finally be the moment for broadcast media to notice the > 75% drop in net migration since 2024. There is also a 42% drop in boat crossings
@wulfhelm.bsky.social @psychicsquirrel.bsky.social Any chance of sponsoring this petition? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
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Patrick Seurre@patrick.seurre.com · 5d agoJust for the hell of it... (now I just need to find 5 supporters to get it published)
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
The NYP is reporting that FIFA has scrapped its plans to sell a 20% stake in its commercial rights business to Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital after fierce opposition. Infantino now under huge pressure ahead of the next FIFA presidential election. #ETTD
“MPs’ code of conduct is clear: “if there is any doubt, the benefit should be registered.” Farage obvs had doubts because he consulted a “top international lawyer” rather than ask “parliamentary authorities whose job it is to know whether something is declarable” theconversation.com/why-the-ques...
Why the questions about Reform UK and its wealthy donors won’t go away
Reform leader Nigel Farage is attempting to win the Clacton byelection.
theconversation.com
...Sony has come to the conclusion that it will “cautiously tell gamers to fuck off.”
The Verge@theverge.com · 5d agoDuring Sony’s latest earnings call, chief financial officer Lin Tao said that while the company “put in a lot of thought and time” when considering the opposition put forward by its gaming community, Sony has come to the conclusion that it will “cautiously move this forward.”
North Vietnam in 1965 did not have anything close to the current military capabilities of Iran. But they continued to fight for another decade until we finally had enough. They were fighting for their country, we were not. Just as we are not now.
