@ignactro.bsky.social
(Mostly) Internet data science. Lecturer (aka Assistant Prof.) at QMUL and IRTF chair of RASP RG. My orthography is creative, no typos here.
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23.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The move will effectively make WhatsApp unavailable [from January] as a platform to distribute AI solutions like assistants or agents. It also means Meta AI is the only assistant available on the chat app" techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/w...
22.10.2025 06:11 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2🚀 PhD position open in my SPEAR lab @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social
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Researchers applying for the UK's Global Talent visa face high upfront costs Upfront cost of visa to applicant and employer in 2025 UK Denmark £692 India £602 Australia £405 Israel £362 US £305 Italy £235 Netherlands 1 £207 Germany | £170 Spain 1£144 Sweden | £117 South Korea | £98 France £84 Japan £21 £5,941 £O £2,000 £4 Source: Fragomen for the Royal Society • Excludes ongoing costs such as mandatory healthcare premiums or fees such as language tests
The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
21.10.2025 05:57 — 👍 295 🔁 195 💬 18 📌 33
Interesting: Greenland picks French company Eutelsat over Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Greenland's government-owned telecommunications company Tusass signed the agreement with Eutelsat to provide east and north Greenland with better and more reliable internet connectivity.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Es un ejercicio de predicción masoquista. Lo contrario es más probable. Peor aún: son los contenidos de calidad y que requieren más esfuerzo los que más tienen que perder techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/w...
19.10.2025 22:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Monetising eyeball bots might be more popular than monetising fleshy ones techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/w...
19.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No regrets, the Trojans said, we needed wooden horses
17.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution.
A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power.
Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social
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America’s brain drain
No words
30.05.2025 12:23 — 👍 2199 🔁 861 💬 93 📌 166Our European-focused work, under the brand of @eurosky.social is taking off. Our first in-person event happens in Berlin on November 19, to discuss and share opportunities for European open social #atrproto infrastructure operated in Europe. We're announcing our speakers here!
09.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0Ginius
09.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you a lawyer? Do you enjoy working on small teams tackling big things? We’re hiring a senior counsel.
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California passed AB 566!
It's a law that mandates browsers support the GPC signal that can be used to exercise privacy rights automatically in jurisdictions that have them.
Apple Safari and Google Chrome are reluctantly going to have to improve your privacy.
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/08/g...
It's #NetLdn tomorrow night, come join us for 2 great talks, interesting chat, and a bonus lightning talk!
netldn.uk/2025/10/03/n...
Many of the deals are circular and have given an immediate share price boost to the start-up’s partners. For example, Nvidia plans to invest $100bn in OpenAI over the next decade, providing OpenAI with cash to buy Nvidia’s chips.
07.10.2025 13:15 — 👍 51 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1Impressive considering democrats have been spectacularly useless making the case here and the press refused to fact check things like “is Portland a hellscape of doom and despair torn apart by war”
05.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
The Huawei blowback:
China is curbing the use of European telecom kit suppliers Nokia and Ericsson in its networks as Xi Jinping pushes to decouple the country’s critical tech infrastructure from the west.
blueksy video uploads are temporarily broken right now; probably impacting skylight etc as well.
we are working to fix the problem and expect them to be flowing soon
This is a short, punchy, set of facts. It is worth reading the piece directly.
But also, if we wanted a reliable ad archive (and we do) we should have legislated for it, and not rely on public policy whims of the companies who profit from them.
Google has deleted its political ad archive for the EU, thus the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads for countless elections across 27 countries are gone
www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...
Pivot to Asia. EU version. "The battery project near Zaragoza, capital of the north-eastern Aragón region, is nonetheless cementing Spain’s status as one of Beijing’s closest allies in western Europe."
27.09.2025 09:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This paper analyses Threads quantitatively arxiv.org/abs/2406.19277
25.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0<<“Of course the NHS should use data better to help patients and improve the health service,” said Cori Crider, honorary professor at UCL Laws and the executive director of the Future of Tech Institute. “But what’s good for Larry Ellison may not be best for the NHS.”>>
24.09.2025 10:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
A chart, spiritually similar to the Charlie Day conspiracy meme, shows which AI companies (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, etc) have struck licensing deals with news and entertainment websites (USA Today, Reuters, Business Insider, the Washington Post etc). It always shows which of the websites is suing which of the AI companies. There's a lot of lawsuits and a lot of deals and it makes me dizzy.
Also seriously this chart of who's suing or making deals with whom in AI is nuts in mostly the best way.
🫡 to Axios for what I assume was a LOT OF WORK to do this:
Yes. Ad-based monetisaton of wikipedia to fund the open Internet: "Strategy is the art of creating power. The Wikipedia community is in a position to create substantive power for the public interest internet"
22.09.2025 17:55 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The subtlety is that the appeal of the far-right is so large that it breaks the traditional nationalist divide: In Catalonia, typically, few right-wing voters supported non-pro-independence parties (VOX is very not pro-independence). The similarity is with Reform's inroads in Scotland
22.09.2025 15:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The far right would be the most voted party for those below 34 years old. In Catalonia. Where pro-independentists (of different degrees) and/or socialdemocrats have traditionally have majorities. Shocking and symptomatic
22.09.2025 15:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Moral Maze episode was also recorded and may be Michael Buerk managed to extract from Curtis Yarvin more than gimmicks, detours and argumentations with the consistency of jelly [4/n] www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
22.09.2025 07:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
