Resisting Big Tech Empires - Global Justice Now 📅 April 25, 2026 | ⏰ 11am–6pm📍 London. Join international speakers including Cory Doctorow, Anita Gurumurthy and Nick Srnicek to challenge big tech power and explore how we can reclaim technology…

Check out the 'Resisting Big Tech Empires' conference taking place this Saturday from @globaljusticenow.bsky.social.

Featuring Cory Doctorow and a slate of exciting speakers, it comes as concerns mount about the influence of Big Tech in the State and our private lives.

🗓️ 25 April
📍 London
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Meerderheid Kamer wil beheer DigiD bij Solvinity weghalen bij Amerikaanse overname Volgens GroenLinks-PvdA kan er nog dit jaar gehandeld worden en is die keuze aan de politiek.

Gisteren steunde een brede Kamermeerderheid het voorstel van GroenLinks-PvdA om het contract van Solvinity met DigiD na een Amerikaanse overname te verbreken. Dat juichen wij toe!

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🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now.

More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive.

Full announcement ⤵️
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This is the thing, if "academia" wanted to stop this, we could easily tomorrow. Over 3 incorrect references? Rejected and forbidden to submit next year.

The purpose of a system is what it does!

Reminds me of reviews I'm navigating where the reviewers claim a middle ground between us & their opinion is important to implement in the paper.

But actually that's the worst idea. If there's 2 sides: I'm a side. Anything else is an untrue reflection. The literature deserves non mainstream views.

Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse If you liked this piece, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, includ...

Today's free newsletter is about four signs that the AI bubble is bursting: Anthropic's services and economics are decaying, AI demand is inflated, more than 50% of data centers under construction are for two companies, and NVIDIA is warehousing $150bn+ of GPUs.
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Lotus Wiper: a new threat targeting the energy and utilities sector Kaspersky researchers analyze the attack chain of a highly destructive Lotus Wiper that can be linked to a targeted attack on the energy and utilities sector.

Kaspersky has a report out on Lotus Wiper, which it believes was the malware behind the Petroleos de Venezuela "ransomware" attack in December of last year

They don't specifically say it, but they imply it very obviously. They also don't mention the US once.

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i think we need to put a moratorium on announcing or discussing any product or business announcements that are happening any later than like, Q2 2027

Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators People building the future of the social web—interoperable and decentralized—need to protect themselves against copyright liability. This post gives an overview of the steps to take. It’s meant for

Hosting an instance or relay in the Open Social Web? Follow these steps now to limit your risk of copyright liability. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF Calls on Kuwait to Release Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin EFF calls on the Kuwaiti government to immediately release journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. An award-winning journalist and television host who worked for Al Jazeera for many years, Shihab-Eldin—a dual

American-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is being held by the Kuwaiti government for his social media posts. EFF calls for his immediate release. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The post-AI-bubble regulation should start by making it illegal to do circular deals - money invested cannot be used to pay for services, money invested cannot be used for buying hardware, etc, etc. Hell, I'm game for making it illegal to invest in customers at all.

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U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: The Arguments That Shaped America, Now Freely Available

by Merrilee Proffitt via @archive.org

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#books #publicdomain

Toezichthouder gaat ICT-leveranciers preventief controleren na grote datalekken De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) gaat de komende tijd bij een aantal ICT-leveranciers in Nederland preventief controleren hoe zij de digitale beveiliging hebben geregeld. Dat besluit is genomen na ...

Fijn dat de AP actie onderneemt! 🤝

"Stichting Bits of Freedom, dat opkomt voor de digitale rechten van burgers, waarschuwde eerder dat er meer controles nodig zijn om ervoor te zorgen dat bedrijven en organisaties hun gegevens goed beschermen."

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Advice for @erc.europa.eu :

Prohibit the use of LLMs for grant writing. Let applicants sign a declaration that they have not used such systems and that the text is written by them and them alone.

My teaching is embedded in an AI dept (prob because I sinned on the previous turn of the wheel of samsara), but the most pronounced sexism I never see discussed is if I give a student a bad grade it's my fault and I'm a bad teacher, but they get away with verbally abusing me in writing and still 1/

It's nobody's fault of course but sometimes it feels even academics forget that papers from writing to publication usually take prob more than a year. And that's part of the whole point. Slower than frenetic news and slower than blog posts is good actually because it is required for the process.

How many fucking “godfathers of AI” are there, and why do none of them talk about the actual realities of LLMs? Grifters galore

Got exactly one citation and ignored by several major pubs covering the official Microsoft post here, looking forward to Thursday when they get to do it again when token-based billing is announced ❤️

Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing New York's proposed 2026-2027 budget currently includes provisions that will require all 3D printers sold in the state to run print-blocking censorware—software that surveils every print for

New York shouldn't rush a censorship mandate for 3D printers into the budget. Many experts have already warned that it won't work. It's faulty surveillance infrastructure smuggled in a budget bill. NYers, act now! www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Licensing Best Practices for the Sharing of Scientific Data - Creative Commons Creative Commons publishes the report Licensing Best Practices for Sharing Scientific Data, a guide for researchers and data producers.

Today, we are sharing our newest report, "Licensing Best Practices for Sharing Scientific Data", which extends the open data practices originally designed for climate data in our 2023 report "Recommended Best Practices for the Better Sharing of Climate Data" to other disciplines.

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> We have been here before, both with entanglements of AI and statistics with industry corrupting our academic processes, and with so-called AI summers: hype cycles that pivot from funding booms to complete busts and cessation of research

How do tracking companies know what you did last summer? Related Content

How do companies actually track you? Read our short explainer to learn about the most common ways of tracking: cookies, tracking pixels, fingerprinting, and more

Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Reduce Rate Limits Edward Zitron Apr 20, 2026 4 min read Executive Summary: Internal documents reveal that Microsoft plans to temporarily suspend individual account signups to Github Copilot, as it transitions from requests (single interactions with Copilot) towards token-based billing. The documents reveal that the weekly cost of running Github Copilot has doubled since the start of the year. Microsoft also intends to reduce the rate limits on its individual and business accounts, and to remove access to certain models for those with the cheapest subscriptions.

Exclusive: Microsoft is reducing rate limits on GitHub Copilot, removing Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing some time later in 2026 in a sign that it's looking for way to cut costs for its AI services.
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Aflevering Veiligheid voor wie? | Hoe gemeenten met AI jongeren en buurten tot risico bestempelen van podcast Dossier NAV luister je op NPO Luister Gemeenten gebruiken AI om buurten en jongeren preventief als risico te bestempelen. Europa versoepelt intussen de AI‑wet en schuift het toezicht deels door naar gemeenten en bedrijven zelf.

Onze beleidsmedewerker Nadia sprak met Sinan Çankaya bij Omroep ZWART over hoe algoritmes bestaande ongelijkheid en discriminatie kunnen versterken zonder onafhankelijke controle.

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Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing New York's proposed 2026-2027 budget currently includes provisions that will require all 3D printers sold in the state to run print-blocking censorware—software that surveils every print for

A mandate adopted in New York becomes the national standard in practice. NYers should act now to defend user control and privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global When people remember the 2011 uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they picture crowded squares, raised phones, and the feeling that the internet had finally shifted the balance

Surveillance is transnational: tools are exported, playbooks are copied, and data moves across borders as easily as money. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

TL;DR: Use our software if you wanna turn your democracy into a dictatorship! We have a FAQ page!

NGOs call for immediate release of ​Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid, whose 14-year sentence was upheld We, the undersigned organisations, express deep concern over the continued arbitrary detention of the Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid, whose 14-year prison sentence was recently upheld.

EFF joins our allies in calling for the immediate release of Saudi Wikipedia contributor and friend of EFF Osama Khalid, whose 14-year sentence was recently upheld. alqst.org/en/post/ngo...

Students "deserve curricula that recognize the full scope of their humanity, outside of their roles as consumers and users of technology, and they deserve an education that allows them to explore the myriad ways their lives and choices are connected to others"

Mastodon is Getting Encrypted DMs! (Plus Other Upgrades!)

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