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Iran Enters a New Age of Digital Isolation - Filterwatch Exclusive intelligence obtained by Filterwatch reveals that the Islamic Republic has abandoned its traditional model of mass internet censorship in favor of a new, far darker strategy: "Absolute Digit...

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Glitches on video calls linked to real-world decisions : Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions

www.theregister.com/2025/12/04/g...

Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators Action detailed in a state department memo directs officials to deny visas to any applicant engaging in ‘censorship’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image Rail services were cancelled after a 'hoax' picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social media

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‘A little less cool’: Spotify’s listening age feature stirs delight and dismay Some users jump generations in expanded Wrapped review while Taylor Swift tops UK streams for third year

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Anthropic details how it measures Claude’s wokeness Claude is told to avoid providing “unsolicited” political opinions.

www.theverge.com/news/819216/...

Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Today’s 120 million euro fine against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) will be spun as a decision against “free speech.” It’s not. (1/7) #digitalservicesact #dsa #dsa ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Anthropic’s quest to study the negative effects of AI is under pressure Anthropic’s societal impact team is empowered to publish unflattering and even politically fraught research on AI. Is it just for show?

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We need to talk about the EU TDM exception and AI training Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year's Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI training. Despite arriving at different outcomes, LAION won, OpenAI lost, both decisions share something important: they confirm that the TDM exception in Article 4 of the…

We need to talk about the EU TDM exception and AI training

Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year's Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI training. Despite arriving at different outcomes,…

Analysis | This new children’s book is a bedtime story for the AI age With “Privacy, Please!” a longtime cybersecurity expert wants preschoolers to start learning about digital privacy.

Congrats to @lorriecranor.bsky.social for writing a young children’s book about privacy. Great story in the WaPo about it and so happy it also mentions my book about privacy for older kids www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones.

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So (see @klonick.bsky.social last night) today may be the day that the EU Commission fines X for breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Busy day for me, and I expect many questions if it happens, so here's an explanation thread in advance.

First of all, a reminder of the provisional decision

‘It was about degrading someone completely’: the story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site The hobbyists who helped build this site created technology that has been used to humiliate countless women. Why didn’t governments step in and stop them?

www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

It's a Fair Cop - Scam Special - BBC Sounds Cop turned comic Alfie Moore dives into the world of scams.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Look great, I can use it in my teaching on this, thanks.

Our paper on domestic digital police influence campaigns in the UK is now out in the British Journal of Criminology - we evaluate the different mechanisms and methods of police digital influence, including various approaches used for counter-terror campaigns.

A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT Site web d’Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.

In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...