Renate Samson

What the U.S. Can Learn From China’s Technological Success America only hurts itself by discounting what China has done well.

After a monthslong trade war, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet Thursday in Korea. “What’s at stake is America’s ability to keep innovating and leading in the industries of the future,” Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu argue.

I’d love to chat with you about this

AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes Agentic features open the door to data exfiltration or worse Feature  With great power comes great vulnerability. Several new AI browsers, including OpenAI's Atlas, offer the ability to take actions on the user's behalf, such as opening web pages or even shopping. But these added capabilities create new attack vectors, particularly prompt injection.…

AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes

Growing up online - Nuffield Foundation

To read the accompanying Data Commentary report head to www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...

3️⃣ Support could come in different forms. Young people called for better regulation, effective content moderation, more parent involvement, consistent school policies and safer digital spaces where they can be themselves.

2️⃣ Platforms are poorly regulated. Algorithms and online advertising often encourage addictive behaviours, intensify consumerism and leave young people frustrated by the manipulation and lack of control. Yet, some are finding ways to regain agency.

We heard that:
1️⃣ Constant access to digital technologies is a double-edged sword. While it connects them to opportunities and communities, it can also amplify pressure, misinformation and overwhelm. For them, social media is essential to communication, making it hard to step away.

What we heard was fascinating and shows that while this generation may have been born into a connected world, being digital by default is not a choice they would necessarily make for themselves or others.

The work - part of @nuffieldfoundation.org Grown Up? Journeys to Adulthood programme - has engaged with a spectrum of young people across the UK to tell us how digital technologies have shaped their lives, relationships and experience of growing up.

Deep Dive Workshop: Digital Lives - Nuffield Foundation

Publication Day 🎉 today work I’ve been doing exploring and understanding the digital lives of in 14-24 year olds has been published.

To read the report and my own personal reflection on the project www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...

We monitored an AI chatbot service popular with teens and found characters modelled on alt-right extremists, school shooters and even real people – including Jeffrey Epstein

Character AI has millions of users – and the app has been downloaded 2m+ times in the UK alone

Talking to people outside oh the usual bubble is so invigorating

Exclusive: Instagram shows more ‘eating disorder adjacent’ content to vulnerable teens, internal Meta research shows Meta researchers found that teens who report that Instagram regularly made them feel bad about their bodies saw significantly more “eating disorder adjacent content” than those who did not, according to an internal document reviewed by Reuters.

Absolute bombshell from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social:

Meta's internal research found that Instagram's algorithms preferentially displayed harmful content to vulnerable teens.

I'm glad I left Instagram back when I did, even if it was for other reasons (their anti-LGBTQ policies).

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

Cory Doctorow has a word for that kind of 'do less and get less' approach to AI adoption: futurism.com/future-socie...

If it ends up getting fumbled, it'll be myopic money grabs that do it, not the tech itself.

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Microsoft and Anthropic appoint former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak as a senior adviser and pledge his role will not include lobbying with the UK government (Financial Times)

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A Foreign Affair (1948) ⭐ 7.3 | Comedy, Drama, Romance 1h 56m | Approved

Oh and if you ever want to chat about A Foreign Affair m.imdb.com/title/tt0040... let me know

SHOP + VENUE Ümit and Son shop information and details of our film night at the Castle CInema

@roberthutton.co.uk smashing to chat with you earlier. Here’s that spot I was talking about www.cine-real.com/pages/shop-v...

Digital ID compounds smartphone dystopia Just as the world is understanding how damaging they are for our brains and souls, this plan makes them compulsory

Delighted that @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social has identified the same problem. Digital ID compounds smartphone dystopia

www.thetimes.com/article/bcc1...

It’s reference to supporting people who are older or can’t use a device that grinds my gears. Listening to GenZ talk about their digital lives, I heard many say they want to be free of devices. I guess encouraging young people to be device free is just when it suits rather than a consistent view

New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services. Digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks ...

I’ve worked on and off on digital identity for a decade. I have plenty of thoughts about the UK govt proposal.

Right now though, based on my work with 14-24 year olds I’m curious how a compulsory DIGITAL ID will help with extricating young people from mobile devices? 🤷🏻‍♀️

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Compulsory ID.

Compulsory.

ID.

Telegraph readers marginally more opposed to ID cards than for them.

Times readers all in enthusiastic for them.

Curious.

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Utterly unsurprised that when it comes to bricks and mortar shoppers want to interact with people not surveillance cameras.

‘Amazon to close all its ‘grab and go’ till-less grocery stores’

www.thetimes.com/article/cd7c...

@williamcb.bsky.social thank you for your hospitality and for hosting an interesting conversation.

Oh! Conor has died? This is terribly sad news. He was a great man, always so generous with his ideas and enthusiastic for the ensuing conversation. I am grateful the time I spent with him.

My timeline demonstrating the extent of the wealth/poverty gap depressingly clearly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social @techmeme.com

Right!

Microsoft 365 Copilot Experiment: Cross-Government Findings Report (HTML)

UK Govt report can be found here www.gov.uk/government/p...