James Murray just been appointed as #Health Secretary, & can end #NHS's dangerous contract with #US #surveillance giant Palantir

#Palantir are embedded in #OurNHS - despite their links to Donald #Trump and their supply of #tech to the #Israeli & US militaries

• It was revealed last week that their staff have "unlimited access" to our NHS #patient #data

Murray is new, and what happens on his first few days on the job can transform what happens with the Palantir contract

Lets flood his inbox today so he can see just how many of us want that contract terminated

It takes less than 30 seconds

the.organise.network/campaigns…

#corruption #privacy #UK #backhanders #HealthCare

James Murray: Get Palantir OUT of our NHS!

I've just emailed the Department for Work and Pensions to ask them to fix their broken consultation on reforms to PIP. Can you join in too?

^{the.organise.network}

(2024) #GrapheneOS

Any1 using GrapheneOS?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=hrqqQOFp…

#tech

Google Is Paving A New Information Superhighway

Getting from here to there is about to change
#Google #Tech #AI #Apple

warnercrocker.com/2026/05/23/g…

Tips needed: Privacy-first keyboard app for iPhone?

I've been using Microsoft's Swiftkey which, unfathomably, is a really good keyboard, but MS is SO FUCKING HORNY!! for feeding my input into their AI, I just have to ditch 🙄 obviously, since autocorrect is already AI, asking for an AI-free keyboard app is pro'lly a fool's errand, but... well, I'm asking 🙏😊

#tech #privacy #ux

Just a little favor for his #billionaire #donor #TechBros

#Trump delays executive order on #AI #oversight hours before planned signing


The White House had already sent out invitations to the event, where Trump had been expected to sign an order increasing government scrutiny of new #ArtificialIntelligence models.

#law #tech #business #regulation #MentalHealth #plutocracy #aristocracy #technocracy
washingtonpost.com/technology/…

Gee, ya don’t say …

#Bluesky Says #Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread #Propaganda

The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real #users’ accounts to post fake #content, an apparently novel tactic.

#MediaLiteracy #disinformation #misinformation #Russia #RussianPropaganda #tech #SocialMedia
nytimes.com/2026/05/21/busines…

New from me: France is done with US big tech companies—arguably its moving away from American tech faster than other countries in Europe

The French government has built its own replacement for Google Docs/Microsoft Office. Cities, including Lyon, are moving to Linux and other tech. Open source is at the center of their efforts.

wired.com/story/the-eu-is-goin…

#tech #digitalsovereignty #opensource #techn

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech

France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit.

^{Matt Burgess (WIRED)}

It's pretty interesting to see #China order a #US company to unwind the purchase of another company in #Singapore, after it was already complete.

🇺🇸 #Meta > 🇸🇬 #Manus ❌ 🇨🇳 #Government

reuters.com/technology/chinas-…

#SingaporeWashing #News #Business #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Legal #Politics #Reuters #Economy #Tech

RE: mastodon.xyz/@privacyint/11661…

At #CPDP2026, sponsored by Google (Alphabet) and Microsoft, companies complicit in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people according to the UN:

aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un…

If you can’t even abide by #BDS to show solidarity with the people of Gaza are you truly an ally?

bdsmovement.net/microsoft

bdsmovement.net/no-tech-oppres…

If you’re anti genocide you would be boycotting Microsoft and Google and thus boycotting #CPDP2026 which is sponsored by them.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #privacyInternational #CPDP #BDS #complicity #privacy #humanRights #tech

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.

^{Federica Marsi (Al Jazeera)}

"Age verification is an impossibility, and an impossibly terrible idea with impossibly vast consequences for privacy and the open web..." - @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bel…

#AgeVerification #privacy #security #tech

Somehow "democratizing user research" never means establishing rigor around methodology and interpretation, and always means giving product managers license to go off and do stupid shit without consulting anyone who might tell them not to

#UX #UXDesign #tech #softwaredevelopment

The Linux/Unix Default Home Directory Receives An Update

Learn of about the recent update to Freedesktop.org’s XDG User Directories that adds a new directory to a GNU/Linux and Unix default home directory.

adamsdesk.com/posts/xdg-user-d…

#blog #linux #unix #GNOME #KDE #tech

📰 Grafana Labs, an open source tool maker, announced that hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish it if the company did not pay a ransom.

🔗 techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/open…

#Tech #Cybersecurity

Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom | TechCrunch

The open source project said hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish its source code if the company did not pay.

^{Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)}

LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’

tomshardware.com/tech-industry…

#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #linkedin

RAM prices explained.

Edit : this image is AI slop. I didn't catch it at first and now I feel like a tool. This post blew up, so I'm gonna leave it. I will be much more careful in the future.

#RAM #tech #Linux #AI #LateStageCapitalism

Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space

thescientificdrop.com/2026/05/…

#HackerNews #Tech #Space

Earth's Radio Bubble: Every Signal We've Ever Sent Into Space

Right now, a sphere of electromagnetic radiation is expanding outward from Earth at the speed of light. It has been growing since the...

^{Nishant (Blogger)}

#Musk Loses

A federal #jury has sided with #OpenAI & its top executives in a feud with #ElonMusk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide #ArtificialIntelligence’s development as a #nonprofit dedicated to #humanity’s benefit.

The nine-person jury unanimously found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit & missed the deadline for the statute of limitations.

#law #tech #business
apnews.com/article/musk-openai…

Software is inert without a human user, even though modern-day "agentic" apps are doing their best to squeeze human agency out of the loop. The focus on the tech and not how it is used has intensified an old phenomenon: interpassivity.

The vision tech has been pushing (software that "uses itself") has created a synthetic replacement for human agency. It is harder and harder to care, and that is by design.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/th…

#AI #LLM #tech #software #UX #UXdesign

The newest term in the AI lexicon is "interpassivity"

The industry is reorienting around software that uses itself. But giving ourselves permission to lean back and relax merely indulges an old and toxic tendency.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Long, but worth reading:👀

"Our current globalised #tech industry can only exist because of the protectionism and policy uniformity imposed by the #UnitedStates on its hegemony. That billions of people across dozens of countries work and interact on unified platforms whose laws and regulations are, for all practical purposes, basically that of the #US... is an artifact of US dominance."
baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-o…

ht: @pluralistic

#Technology #Enshittification #Law #World #News #Press #USA

Xbox is now XBOX

Xbox just allcapsmaxxed: meet XBOX. This isn't a joke, Microsoft appears to be actually rebranding Xbox to XBOX. Asha Sharma, Xbox CEO, ran a poll on X earlier this week, asking fans whether Microsoft should use Xbox or…

theverge.com/news/931918/micro…

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TheVerge [The Verge]

Xbox is now XBOX

Believe it or not, Microsoft appears to be rebranding Xbox.

^{Tom Warren (The Verge)}

“AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”
- Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

#AI #Tech #Technology #CoryDoctorow #Quote #Quotes #Meme #Memes

Feedr v0.8.0 - a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal

github.com/bahdotsh/feedr

#HackerNews #Tech #RSS

The above article makes me think of the quote from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic :

“AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Quote #CoryDoctorow #Meme #Memes #Quotes #Tech #Technology

"Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their #jobs as well as they used to."
- @404mediaco

404media.co/software-developer…

#Tech #Technology #News #Press #US #USA

RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11656805…

"The idea that you can simply feed every fact about a society into a chatbot and order it to "solve" the nation reveals a profound ignorance about the nature of political contests." - @pluralistic

- and the same holds true for the individual human being, of course; that's why societies are like that.

The prevailing ideas about AI / AGI are based on this fundamental misapprehension, that a sapient subject such as a human being can be solved in the manner of an equation.

#AI #tech

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

Attached: 1 image With great power comes great solipsism: the more power you wield over other people, the less real they become to you. To rule is to see people as aggregates, statistical artifacts, as a means to an end.

^{Cory Doctorow (Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net)}

The slow death of the power user.

"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the…

#technology #tech #sustainability

Google: Hackers used AI to develop zero-day exploit for web admin tool

#security #artificialintelligence #bleeping computer #bleepingcomputer #computers #technology #news #education #updates #tech
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Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*

^GitLab

📰 A 3 GB SQLite database has been replaced with a 10 MB FST binary to optimize performance and reduce storage requirements.

🔗 til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/repl…

#Tech #Dev

Interview: The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism

"These technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect."

There's a lack of human connection; discomfort with the core of what it means to be human; inability to reconcile individual demands with societal demands.

It glorifies being the "solo commander of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable behavior."

Computers are more controllable than any human will ever be.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdk…

#USPol #EUPol #Tech .

New development in Elon Musk’s trial against Sam Altman. A federal court in Oakland, Calif., heard a former OpenAI employee and board member say the company’s efforts to push AI products into the marketplace compromised its commitment to AI safety. @Techcrunch has more:

flip.it/mdNnjq

#Tech #AI #Musk #Altman #OpenAI #Technolgy #ArtificialIntelligence

Elon Musk's lawsuit is putting OpenAI's safety record under the microscope | TechCrunch

Elon Musk's legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.

^{Tim Fernholz (TechCrunch)}

RE: mastodon.social/@joshgotfried/…

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#ireland #internship #getFediHired #tech

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#boost #share #email #privacy #free #tech #internet #tips #useful #app #lifehack #viral #trending #fediverse #mastodon

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The courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman heated up Monday when Musk’s AI expert Stuart Russell, a Cal-Berkeley computer science professor, took the stand. Russell co-signed an open letter in 2023 calling for a six-month pause in AI research. Here's more from @Techcrunch, including what Russell told jurors and Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rodgers about the risks associated with AI:

flip.it/28x0Q5

#Tech #AI #ElonMusk #SamAltman #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Elon Musk's only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race | TechCrunch

Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

^{Tim Fernholz (TechCrunch)}

Your company is a MACHINE for turning MEETINGS into REPORTS. Too bad no one reads those reports.

You also have dashboards, which one might skim before doing what they were gonna do anyway.

Tech orgs have all the data in the world, but have lost the ability to read it, understand it, or act on it.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/th…

#UXDesign #tech #software

The illiterate organization

Even the most actionable insight will never be acted upon when coherence has broken down.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}