Lindsay Clark
datadictum.bsky.social
Lindsay Clark
@datadictum.bsky.social
Reporter @theregister.com covering enterprise applications, databases and analytics. Also, a bit of science here and there. Many former lives.
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EC has formally opened an investigation into Google for using publishers’ content without meaningful consent or compensation for its AI Overviews feature.

Big win for civil society orgs like @foxglovelegal.bsky.social who’ve been asking for this.

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the use of online content for AI purposes
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on th
ec.europa.eu
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era

www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/v...

Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops

<- by me on @theregister.com
Rebuilding Visi On reveals how Apple defined the GUI era
: Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops
www.theregister.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I once went on a date with someone who said fox hunting should be a human right. I suggested clean water and a vote would be higher up the list, apologies to Zadie Smith
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Ok so people are contacting me about this story stressed about what has happened to their pensions, asking me if I have any more information. I'll be putting together another story soon.
The Capita-run civil services pension portal is strewn with errors and appears to be malfunctioning. Users doubt it has been tested or proofread. The outsourcer has apologised. 1/2 www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/c...
New Capita-run civil service pension portal full of errors
: Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members
www.theregister.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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The Capita-run civil services pension portal is strewn with errors and appears to be malfunctioning. Users doubt it has been tested or proofread. The outsourcer has apologised. 1/2 www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/c...
New Capita-run civil service pension portal full of errors
: Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members
www.theregister.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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I made some fish tacos tonight.

But they just ignored them and swam away :(
a scuba diver is kneeling down next to a large fish in the ocean
Alt: a scuba diver is kneeling down next to a large fish in the ocean as fish blocks the camera
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May 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
What happens when you borrow billion of dollars to build stuff for customers who don't yet have the money to pay you? Fuck around and find out.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The Capita-run civil services pension portal is strewn with errors and appears to be malfunctioning. Users doubt it has been tested or proofread. The outsourcer has apologised. 1/2 www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/c...
New Capita-run civil service pension portal full of errors
: Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members
www.theregister.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I'm amazed this isn't a bigger story
“The US government has decided to sanction — or, essentially, de-person — a European judge for carrying out his official duties in Europe while working in an institution established by Europe’s elected representatives …”
~Yanis Varoufakis

Irish Examiner

☕️🥐
December 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Is Die Hard a German movie?
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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What a wonderful story - and a beautiful illustration of the power of the arts.

Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways.

And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Little titch
Cyril Bernard
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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This one needs trumpets and crowds pf angels. Maybe the angels can have the trumpets to save time?

Its only George, in his fluffy coat, pouring tea! Look closely and he’s using a strainer. I bet he brought his own! A magical moment.
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Right, this is the thing, "the Budget is not honest", okay, sure, I'm with you, "because they made things seem worse than they are" - are you on glue?
There is an actual interesting little deceit in the budget, namely ther have the OBR still forecasting based on increasing net immigration back to 300-350k whilst the Home Secretary is promising to bring it down from 200k, which does dissolve about half the headroom, but somehow we're doing vibes.
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Kemi Badenoch - one of the many, many politicians since Margaret Thatcher to talk about learning from Margaret Thatcher who, IDK, maybe they saw a meme about her one time?
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B
OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings The UK government has finally put a £1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans – days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure.…
dlvr.it
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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She is so profoundly intellectually incurious that I find myself fascinated how she ever learnt how to *speak*.
Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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🙏🙏
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'm sure the revenue from flag sales will more than compensate
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is good by @robinwigglesworth.ft.com What I don't get is why investors were not a bit more circumspect when Oracle announced its Q1 RPOs ("a career event," one analyst said) when it was obvious OpenAI didn't yet have the money. It still doesn't. www.ft.com/content/d2fd...
Morgan Stanley thinks you should short Oracle
Single-name CDS are so hot right now
www.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM