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Scary! Airbus issues major A320 recall after mid-air incident grounds planes, disrupting global travel. Software needs to be reverted. Not sure how software changes protect from soar radiation?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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#Airbus issues major #A320 recall after mid-air incident grounds planes, disrupting global travel - www.theguardian.com/business/202... "fix mainly involves reverting to earlier software and is relatively simple" seems straightforward
Airbus issues major A320 recall after mid-air incident grounds planes, disrupting global travel
Immediate software change on ‘significant number’ of jets to result in disruption to half the worldwide fleet
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Yesterday I posted a paper about the danger of social media algos pushing more and more people into extreme right-wing views. It now only takes a week to change someone’s view by the same amount that used to take 3 years.
I fully expect calls for violence against vaccine proponents to explode.
I fully expect calls for violence against vaccine proponents to explode.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Conference on AI flooded with papers and reviews written by AI. Why have humans go at all? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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It´s a slop.
"Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI.
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence."
I don´t want mobility to be planned by AI.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI.
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence."
I don´t want mobility to be planned by AI.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Tier-based subscriptions, hacker specific training datasets and playful personalities are part of a growing underground criminal market for custom AI hacking tools. cyberscoop.com/malicious-ll...
Underground AI models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’
Cybercriminals are buying custom AI hacking tools like WormGPT on dark web forums. Palo Alto Networks' report reveals how malicious LLMs lower barriers to cybercrime.
cyberscoop.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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'The degree of increased division – known as “affective polarisation” – achieved in one week by the changes the academics made to X users’ feeds was as great as would have on average taken three years between 1978 and 2020.' 2/3 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Platform-independent experiments on social media
Changing algorithms with artificial intelligence tools can influence partisan animosity
www.science.org
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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'Most of the more than 1,000 users who took part in the experiment during the 2024 US presidential election did not notice that the tone of their feed had been changed.' 3/3
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Evidence suggests that being on X and using the "For You" feed can rapidly cause political polarisation.
And political parties believe they can still use X?
The fuck is wrong with you?
And political parties believe they can still use X?
The fuck is wrong with you?
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Almost feels like Macron is going for the history books as the President who warned of the consequences of the EU not taking action, and made sure of it by taking views so different to other countries.
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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My interpretation of this article:
You don’t need a violent coup or a hacked voting machines to overthrow democracy.
You just need control of the algorithm.
You don’t need a violent coup or a hacked voting machines to overthrow democracy.
You just need control of the algorithm.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Social media feeds can be tuned to increase or decrease political polarisation.
Nice demonstration by @tiziano.bsky.social and colleagues
Nice demonstration by @tiziano.bsky.social and colleagues
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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New study finds that down-ranking hostile political content in people’s social media feeds decreases political polarization.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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"Modern dentistry is great. But your dentist doesn’t insist you worship him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
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November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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“If empathy has become a distasteful personal failing; if surveillance capitalism has become the default shrugged-off business practice; if the environmental impacts of A.I. are waved away then we are living in the tech-driven culture I saw headed our way 30 yrs ago."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Macron's tough talk on the many issues - but in particular international economic relations - where other Member States do not agree with France is proving hugely divisive in the EU. www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Macron says Brussels is ‘afraid’ of tackling US Big Tech
An “American offensive” has cowed the European Commission and some EU capitals, French president complains.
www.politico.eu
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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"Macron says Brussels is ‘afraid’ of tackling US Big Tech. An “American offensive” has cowed the European Commission and some EU capitals, French president complains." www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Macron says Brussels is ‘afraid’ of tackling US Big Tech
An “American offensive” has cowed the European Commission and some EU capitals, French president complains.
www.politico.eu
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I have a million issues with Macron, but at least on this he's got spine that we can't seem to find elsewhere in Europe.
www.politico.eu/article/brus...
www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Macron says Brussels is ‘afraid’ of tackling US Big Tech
An “American offensive” has cowed the European Commission and some EU capitals, French president complains.
www.politico.eu
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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“lawmakers agreed that banks should reimburse victims if a scammer, impersonating the bank, swindles them out of their money [..] But social media companies will have to compensate banks if it’s clear that they failed to remove an online scam that had been reported.“ www.politico.eu/article/soci...
Social media giants liable for financial scams under new EU law
The new rules set a dangerous precedent, big tech companies say.
www.politico.eu
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🤔🤔🤔
If the past is any indication, I think Apple succeeds with the rebuttal on both, at least for now. Ads may be a bit more important given the importance of the App Store and how ads there drive the entire down stream app economy though...
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
If the past is any indication, I think Apple succeeds with the rebuttal on both, at least for now. Ads may be a bit more important given the importance of the App Store and how ads there drive the entire down stream app economy though...
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
EU says Apple Ads and Maps likely qualify as gatekeepers, Apple disagrees
The European Commission said on Friday that Apple's Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet the thresholds to be considered "gatekeepers" as defined by the Digital Markets Act, a designation the U.S. tec...
www.reuters.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Social Media Giants and Payment Services will be held liable for reimbursing victims of financial scams. This basicly means they will be come liable for fraudulent ads published through their services. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Payment services deal: More protection from online fraud and hidden fees | News | European Parliament
Parliament and Council have struck a deal on a more open and competitive EU payment services sector, with strong defences against fraud and data breaches.
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Will Open AI take down its sponsors? OpenAI’s data centre partners will amass almost $100bn in borrowing tied to the lossmaking start-up, as the ChatGPT maker benefits from a debt-fuelled spending spree without taking on financial risks itself. SoftBank, Oracle and CoreWeave have borrowed at
OpenAI partners amass $100bn debt pile to fund its ambitions
Cloud companies and developers rely on lossmaking start-up to repay huge loans
www.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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"The Stanford-led research, published in Science, also indicates that it may one day be possible to let users take control of their own social media algorithms."
paper link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
paper link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Or you could just stop using Twitter because it’s a racist website owned by a racist
Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce "partisan animosity" (Stanford University)
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November 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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