BlackpoolFC, books, tech, people, policy & delivery, realist. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone.
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"I note that online safety was exempt from the [Ofcom] growth duty before April 2026, and that due to ongoing discussions about future duties and priorities it was agreed that it was not the right moment to agree a growth goal related to online safety"
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Hunh, clearly I need to go to more games next season
Dr When
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"Temporary governance changes at the ICO"
ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...
"another night of disorder presented by Palantir"
<- is 'disorder' an advertised Palantir feature?
*coughs very politely and comedically*
❤️ human ingenuity
(yes, even the malware kind)
In the decade since I founded IF, I've seen the same questions surface: Who is this system actually working for? How does anyone know whether to trust it?
So to mark ten years of IF, I'm publishing ten things we've learned about building things people actually rely on.
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They could write a simple enough law to ensure you can't get paid as easily as you can now. X will Paypal you as soon as you generate $30 of eyeballs for them.
The changing cyber threat profile and potential impact on local councils www.gov.uk/government/p... WSP report for DSIT
An IT leader in local government who doesn't understand how FOI works, never seen that before
Patients need to find it easy & straightforward to hold people and organisations that provide healthcare services accountable for mistakes regardless of whether they're made by people/orgs/ tools they use regardless of whether they're "AI" or not, Peter sez
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Medical Protection Society calls for law to be overhauled to help medics avoid liability for errors made by technology
I tell you what, I am not sure that those on the right in America have always been massively enthusiastic about the World Cup.
Joe Twyman
The BBC said the decision was made "after careful consideration" and had "not been taken lightly".
www.bbc.co.uk
the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […]
[Original post on indieweb.social]
What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it
