Alex Murray

UK traffic to porn sites falls by a third after new age verification rules British government applied tougher checks on adult sites in July to stop children accessing content

Wild numbers in this @financialtimes.com piece on impact of age verification in UK. Pornhub traffic from UK down THREE QUARTERS, not all accounted for elsewhere via VPN www.ft.com/content/bf11...

Whooooaaaaa!

Far too many in cycling seem to overlook Cooke's incredible contribution and achievements in the Sport. Reminder: she was 1st rider to win both Olympic & World Road Race title in same year

A story about Mt Ventoux possibly appearing in the Tour de France Femmes.

And not a single mention of Nicole Cooke riding it in yellow?

Like, come on @cyclingnews.com, what the actual fuck?

For those who have forgotten Cooke's story:

UK Hongkongers rue the rockiness of their ‘lifeboat’ after threatened visa changes People who fled Chinese territory are angry after London looks at doubling length of time required to gain citizenship

You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory New research coordinated by the EBU and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants routinely distort or misrepresent public service journalism.

45% of all AI answers to news inquiries had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated & outdated information www.ebu.ch/news/2025/10... - @ebu.ch/BBC

Applaud @cyclefit.bsky.social Manifesto www.cyclefit.co.uk/journal/the-... by @midlifecyclist.bsky.social - had years of joy from fits done 15 years ago (bike & insoles) & Jules' pioneering suggestion to try shorter cranks. Used on all my bike builds. Hoping my old Merckx isn't too old for refit

Robbed.

Breakthru does have that enormous synth bass line driving it.

BBC Verify: Aid group suspends Gaza operations after ceasefire The US and Israeli-backed GHF group was heavily criticised before it announced a “pause” on its operations.

Great work by Kevin to get GHF to admit their operations are paused in Gaza. We’ve been tracking their operations data for months www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Big game time #queenworldcup

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

Well said Francesca Simon. ‘The University of Chicago’s motto is: “Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched.” If you’ve learned how to think, critically and creatively, then universities have done their job.’ 1/

Analysing Taliban-Pakistan clash footage and Mexico flood satellite images Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.

Using satellite imagery to tell stories better doesn’t need to be expensive. These Mexico flooding images are free from @esa.int Copernicus Sentinel 2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

A series of charts show how food diversity in Gazan diets has become increasingly restricted during the conflict, with an ever smaller footprint reliant on cereals and tubers, and pulses. Vegetables which appeared pre-conflict have disappeared

Two charts show how food diversity in Gazan diets has become increasingly restricted during the conflict, with an ever smaller footprint reliant on cereals and tubers, and pulses. Vegetables which appeared pre-conflict have disappeared

Fascinated by @wfp.org charts showing food diversity decline in Gazan diets over duration of conflict. From September 2025 Food Security Analysis docs.wfp.org/api/document...

Which in part was chasing back to the tone of the late 90s mag culture of likes of Loaded, Sky and so on, which leaned into "unfiltered" experiences.

Un aperçu de cet entretien dans ce fil.

Will be finding out tomorrow if Bari is an early adopter for the exit part.

#Flash is a cinematic masterpiece. A masterpiece. Hear me? DIIIIIIIIIIIVE!

Dead cat bounce or hammer candlestick? It's all Bri, all day today.

Outstanding investigation reveals fabricated narratives in IDF animations

Interesting article on Ireland's (hopefully) evolving defence posture.

If true that 75% of data cables carrying up to 95% of international traffic pass through or near Irish waters, then long past time Ireland took at least some interest in protecting them.

www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

Very enjoyable thread

I agree - almost all of the work is old style verification work, the AI described sounds like facial recognition/comparison tool - eg Rekognition or PimEyes or open source equivalent - as an additional layer of evidencing

Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.

HGH risks include gynecomastia in males...

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

Totally agree. Suspect number of successful attacks is tiny fraction of volume of attempts.

Exactly. Partner luckily can walk to station, won't cycle for fear of losing beloved bike to theft. I'm fortunate enough to have a folding one I can take with me on train. Otherwise it's just too much worrying.

'Use public transport', they say. Trains now basically unusable if you have to cycle or drive to the station. Already the most expensive fares in Europe, you now need to factor in the cost of losing your bike or car, and who can risk that?

Ukraine keeps pulling off the modern military equivalent of jujitsu. Here Russia’s immense size is turned into a vulnerability, as its sprawling oil infrastructure is almost impossible to protect with limited anti air facilities