PWCoghlan
@pwc50.bsky.social
Old school bits, bytes and (r)aging optimist...
The war. It always comes back to the war. That happened long before they were born.
Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Signal now supports Chromebooks 🎉 The interface will be further optimized soon 👉 aboutsignal.com/news/signal-... #signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #chromebook #android #tech #news
Signal now supports Chromebooks
Signal introduced support for Chromebooks in the latest Android update. The interface will be further optimized soon.
aboutsignal.com
The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.
Why is Trump always seen making announcements while hanging around outside an aircraft toilet door? Asking for a friend…
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "Japan has been very good to us with the exception of Pearl Harbor"
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Not satisfied with his distracting, so-called plan to deploy the Royal Navy against refugees in rubber dinghies, Farage now plans to declare war with France What a f*ckwit... BBC News - France hits out at Reform UK plan to return migrants using Royal Navy - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
France hits out at Reform UK plan to return migrants using Royal Navy
It comes after the party said it would override French objections to return migrants to France.
bbc.co.uk
Mirror Politics@politics.mirror.co.uk · 2d agoNigel Farage's desperate small boats plan has been dismissed as impractical and illegal as he attempts to divert attention from sleaze allegations.
Why can't he just stay at home in Mar a Lago where he pays everyone to love him? We don't do golden bogs 🚽 www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Donald Trump expected to visit Dublin and Clare during trip to Ireland next month
US president to attend Irish Open at his resort in Doonbeg and likely to meet Taoiseach in Dublin
irishtimes.com
Your Much Needed Afternoon #TimelineCleanser ... Have fun at work, and if you can, make someone's day.
Is this another part of Labour's #EU Reset plan? The HO is excelling itself, again www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain
theguardian.com
OK, it’s early, but the maths in this acclaimed #CCS project in the Alberta tar sands region of Canada, don’t appear to add up interestingengineering.com/energy/us-wo...
US neighbor switches on world’s first carbon capture gas turbine plant
Entropy's Glacier Phase 2 commercial CCS project is now live, capturing CO₂ directly from power-generating gas turbines.
interestingengineering.com
Would genuinely like to know wtf this means, exactly #AI 🤔 Chief executive Paul Thwaite (NWB) said that AI “alters how people live and work” and that “there is no doubt that AI is reshaping financial services” www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
NatWest profits up by a fifth after AI-led tech drive and wealth focus
It follows Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group in beating analysts expectations for profit growth over the first half of the year.
independent.co.uk
The EU AI Act now requires “providers to disclose when images, audio, video or even text have been generated or substantially modified by AI, using visible labels alongside technical methods such as digital watermarks and embedded metadata.” www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/le...
Tech companies must label AI content from Sunday
The EU is introducing new rules requiring companies to clearly identify content created or significantly altered using AI.
computing.co.uk
The corruption in Trump’s administration isn’t unique; America has previous form… www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
The scale of corruption in Trump’s second administration is head spinning
Self-censorship in Trump's America is increasingly common and despite the administration’s growing unpopularity, criticism is muted
irishtimes.com
If you're around west Cork next weekend, I'll be taking part in the West Cork History Festival alongside @markhennessy.bsky.social. Also loads of far more interesting people from the Taoiseach to Iain Dale, Leanne Calvert, Myles Dungan & more. 📖Programme: westcorkhistoryfestival.org/2026-festival/
In January, I stopped using X as a communication channel because the platform facilitated the creation of illegal and deeply harmful images by its AI tool, Grok. I am renewing my call for all governmental and parliamentary communications to stop using X. The platform continues to facilitate
Good! 👍 Interesting to note how #Reform & their Tory rejects still want to prioritise cars & pollution over the real risks to residents & visitors to Poole Park in Dorset #BCP 🤷♂️ Sad... BBC News - Call to reopen Poole Park entrance to motorists rejected www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Call to reopen Poole Park entrance to motorists rejected
The Whitecliff entrance to Poole Park was permanently closed to traffic in May 2024.
bbc.co.uk
Many thanks for this @jamesrball.com 100% spot on On the last point re Trump learning lessons on his non-existent failures, he’s already reached the point where he knows everything about nothing liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/468...
Trump’s ‘deal’ looks like a desperate distraction
His agreements have a habit of falling apart within days – he has made himself the President who cried wolf
liveapp.inews.co.uk
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
PwC published reports on AI marred by AI hallucinations - rpt by @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7e14...
Lovely touches in Trump’s Oval Office especially the mirror-mirror on the wall & the array of Holy Grails Would he choose wisely?
Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 7d agoDeputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized
If anyone is still wondering what #refuk is capable of, just take a look at East Sussex CC & Hastings to be precise Having stopped meal vouchers for children, the Council leader is threatening a local café owner with legal action over free meals #Reform www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops
EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...
mirror.co.uk
Not sure who did this but they should be arrested immediately.
I know people like to take the p*ss out of Adrian but this is a great piece of writing.
I’d never cried during a live broadcast – then three poignant words had me sobbing | Adrian Chiles
I couldn’t help choking up when the writer Katriona O’Sullivan told me her life story. Now I’m on a mission to get everyone to read her memoir, writes Adrian Chiles
theguardian.com
Reform still battling the incoming tide in Bournemouth #bcp where in the summertime, no one can move because of the 🤬 cars Plan to move Poole railway station called 'anti-motorist' | Bournemouth Echo share.google/YNn77uG9a38F...
Plan to relocate railway station and introduce trams called ‘anti-motorist’
A 15-year plan with proposals to move a railway station, introduce trams and expand the cycling network is continuing “anti-motorist biased…
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