Joe McLoughlin

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Secretary of State statement to the House of Commons: 12 January 2026 DSIT Secretary of State statement after concerns over Grok AI.

Sharing, or threatening to share, a deepfake intimate image without consent is a criminal offence.

This offence, created by the Data Act last year, will be brought into force this week, and I will make it a priority offence in the Online Safety Act too.

www.gov.uk/government/s...

A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk

The first two hours this morning

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Another from my Irish Cork native mum 'houl yer whisht' in a word shush! Whisht derived from Irish 'eist' meaning listen. I know it doesn't make sense 🤣

Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE

Taking Jaggedness Seriously Why we should expect AI capabilities to keep being extremely uneven, and why that matters

This blog post by Helen Toner (well-known by some for a stint on the OpenAI board) is *really really* interesting because it is the first thing I've read by someone in Frontier AI that starts to get to grips with sociotechnical concerns open.substack.com/pub/helenton...

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language As scholars of ancient texts well know, the reconstruction of lost sources can be a matter of some controversy.

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language

How a Dutch “Dementia Village” Improves Quality of Life with Intentional Design People suffering from dementia lose their ability to take an active part in conversations, everyday activities, and their own physical upkeep. They are prone to sudden mood swings, irritability, depr...

How a Dutch “Dementia Village” Improves Quality of Life with Intentional Design

Not always the case Scott but its to denote 'larger' there are Little Portland & Little Russell Streets. Great also much larger thoroughfare. Gt P St runs all the way from Euston Road to Oxford Street

Not a coffee one but my dear old mum from Cork in Ireland would say 'jaysus, you can see them coming out of mass in New York through that' if you dared pour weak tea!

New York City launched a citywide composting program last year, and around 6 million tons of free finished compost have been handed out to residents and community gardens so far.

A heartbreaking masterpiece... Hernan Diaz - In The Distance

Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful and Live Your Life” Image by Dosseman, via Wikimedia Commons In 2012, archaeologists discovered in Southern Turkey a well-preserved mosaic featuring a skeleton savoring a loaf of bread and a pitcher of wine, surrounded b...

Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful and Live Your Life”

Photographer Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025) planted a forest and grew a global movement Sebastião Salgado, the celebrated Brazilian photographer whose powerful black-and-white images captured the dignity of human labor and the fragility of the natural world, died on May 23rd, aged 81. A ...

The iconic photographer passed away leaving a legacy of powerful images highlighting dignity of people & fragility/power of nature

His Amazônia project captured the beauty of rainforests and Indigenous ppl, offering a hopeful portrayal amidst rising environmental threats

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