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Cryptographic & Security Engineering at Apple. Previously: helped start Signal, early Bellingcat contributor. Mastodon: @fj@mastodon.social
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#ReFuelEU aviation: member states’ representatives (Coreper) endorse the provisional agreement with to decarbonise the aviation sector.
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#RefuelEU Aviation initiative: @EUCouncil and @Europarl_EN reach a provisional agreement to decarbonise the aviation sector.
Read our press release 
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Venice🇮🇹 used to have the highest levels of air pollution from cruise ships in Europe... until a ban in 2021 caused it to drop to 41st place on the list 👏
Imagine what the rest of Europe’s coasts could look like with similar measures across EU ports.
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10 Jahre nach den Enthüllungen von Edward Snowden, wie die US-Geheimdienste weltweit anlasslos massenhaft unsere Kommunikation überwachen, spricht Max Schrems darüber, was sich in den 10 Jahren nun verändert hat:
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Today, the Delegated Acts on Renewable #Hydrogen have been approved. This means legal certainty for both producers & consumers of #renewablehydrogen & is a pivotal step to attract necessary investments to decarbonise our #energy system!
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The #AI Act was just voted & adopted by @Europarl_EN! 
This is a landmark first step towards the development of AI according to our democratic values.
As @EP_Industry Rapporteur, proud to see the balance we have achieved between risk & innovation.
The work continues. 
This is a landmark first step towards the development of AI according to our democratic values.
As @EP_Industry Rapporteur, proud to see the balance we have achieved between risk & innovation.
The work continues. 
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Welcome back to Europe, Thomas! 😉
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Most beautiful press event I have ever been part of - on top of the @ETH_en building with view onto Zurich, the Lake of Zurich all the way to the mountains.
Great to also be there with @esa’s @AschbacherJosef and @krpoun from the Swiss Space Office.
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In🇨🇭today, an important Member State with formidable industrial and academic skillsets. In the context of the New Space revolution, commercial aspects of space must be emphasized. One unique way the Swiss want to do this is to expand space research for pharmaceutical advancement.
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🔐 #HPKE (IETF's RFC9180) standardized secure and agile public key encryption.
🆕 In iOS 17, we provide a fast, safe and easy-to-use Swift HPKE API
Documentation:
developer.apple.com/documentation/
Sample Code:
developer.apple.com/documentation/
#WWDC #WWDC23
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New book out by brilliant colleague on "Social Credit - The Warring States of China’s Emerging Data Empire"
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Just noticed The Hague has renamed this cycle path near the Russian embassy 🇺🇦🚲
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BREAKING: Protest signs and protestors' faces are automatically reported to PRC police thanks to an AI system touted by Dahua, a huge Chinese video surveillance manufacturer. Dahua calls this solution a "banner_alarm" ipvm.com/reports/dahua- via
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Great study by TUM researchers on the powertrain of the VW ID.3
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Le même jour:
- publication d’un dessin parfait de dans sur les décisions insensées du Conseil fédéral en matière de mobilité;
- l’information selon laquelle le succès des trains de nuit en 2023 est énorme
👏🏻Il👏🏻faut👏🏻investir👏🏻massivement👏🏻dans👏🏻le👏🏻train👏🏻
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Bye, bye birdie.
#Twitter has chosen a hard way to comply with our digital laws.
Russia’s disinformation is dangerous and it is irresponsible to leave EU’s anti-disinformation Code. (1/2)
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Sizable protests in Yunnan this weekend as residents push back against the removal of domes from a mosque there
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Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation.
But obligations remain. You can run but you can’t hide.
Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under #DSA as of August 25.
Our teams will be ready for enforcement.
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You rock and ! Each time I hear from you, you bring science and medicine to another level. Now, you enable a paralyzed patient to use his brainpower to control his walking. I hope this will be widely available soon
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Amazon has abandoned one of its main climate commitments.
Amazon's "Shipment Zero" pledge to make half of all shipments net-zero carbon by 2030 recently disappeared from its website... replaced by a little link to an update that says "we’ve decided to eliminate it."
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That said, it's not that far off from the current version of "FSD" that can run over pedestrians, no matter their political affiliation.
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The year is 2024, Tesla Cybertrucks get a "Charlottesville autopilot" mode to run over protesters at the inauguration of Ron DeSantis.
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Self-described “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk will have a formal role in the presidential announcement of Ron DeSantis, who has launched an aggressive crackdown on free speech in Florida K-12 schools, universities, and private businesses
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Feels surreal - and I are featured in Quanta Magazine today for our work on perfectly secure steganography (shout-out to our collaborators , and ) 😳
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Cryptography conceals the content of a message. Steganography conceals the fact that a secret exists at all. Human-generated media cannot hide messages with perfect security. A new proof shows that AI-generated media can. @StephenOrnes reports: quantamagazine.org/secret-message
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Xi Jinping 🇨🇳meets Central Asian heads of states 🇰🇿🇰🇬🇺🇿🇹🇯🇹🇲in Xi'an, monitoring all the meetings so you don't have to -
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Exactly 1 year ago we launched the #REPowerEU plan.
A year later we can say the 🇪🇺 managed to do what many thought impossible:
💠Ended our dependency on Russian fossil fuels
💠Diversified supplies
💠Cut almost 20% of our energy consumption
💠And massively invested in renewables
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Sich vorbereiten heißt am Ende aber auch, bald etwas Konkretes zu tun. Bislang wird die europäische #Solarindustrie dafür bestraft, hier zu produzieren: wir zahlen weiterhin Zölle auf nicht-EU Komponenten, asiatische Importe von Solarmodulen sind zollfrei.
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A very good start. The first tender of the EU Energy Platform saw strong interest from both demand and supply side. Thanks to Task Force colleagues who have worked hard to make this happen with 🇪🇺🌱
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We've attracted > 13.4 bcm of gas in the 1st joint gas purchasing tender. Nothing short of a success.
The @EU_Commission has played its role as aggregator and matchmaker. Now it's for the respective parties to conclude their agreements.
ec.europa.eu/commission/pre
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The team reported the Allen, Texas shooter had links to neo-Nazis.
Elon Musk suggested their reporting was a “psyop” — and then apparently limited their reach on Twitter.
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All over in a heartbeat, all compromises on the EU #AIAct passed.
That means full bans on facial recognition in public, predictive policing, fundamental rights impact assessments, transparency for general purpose AI, and rights and redress for affected persons
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🚨The European Parliament just voted to ban predictive policing and criminal prediction systems 🚨
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Huge milestone at the European Parliament today! Despite structural issues with the risk based approach, the AI Act can be a win for human rights. The Parliament must enter trilogues with the strongest possible position to protect the rights of all people accessnow.org/press-release/
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In an enormous win for human rights, the @EP_SingleMarket & @EP_Justice committees have voted in favour of key amendments to improve the AI Act
Key gaps remain, but this is big progress
Here's our press release:
accessnow.org/press-release/
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#ReconnaissanceFaciale La CNIL a décidé de liquider l’astreinte prononcée à l’encontre de CLEARVIEW AI. La société devra payer la somme de 5 200 000 euros pour ne pas s’être conformée à l’injonction formulée dans la décision de sanction 👉 cnil.fr/fr/reconnaissa
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🚀‼️Commissioned by ESA, #Clearspace1 is the world's first mission to remove an existing piece of #SpaceDebris from orbit.
It will demonstrate the technologies needed for debris removal, and is a first step to establishing a new and sustainable commercial sector in space.🛰️🗑️💙
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Exciting news for the first active debris removal mission! ClearSpace just signed a contract with @Arianespace for the launch of its servicer spacecraft #ClearSpace1 with the European launcher Vega C.
Watch video: loom.ly/Phq3fpY
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Today is #EuropeDay.
On this day in 1950, Robert Schuman delivered his famous Declaration – a historic moment in European history that set the foundation for the EU as we know it today.
Only through unity and solidarity are we able to maintain the European project.
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Today is #EuropeDay!
We celebrate those who came before us and built a #EU based on peace, prosperity and unity.
We must shape our shared future with a renewed purpose to #defenddemocracy and our values.
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Aware of anyone circumventing EU sanctions on Russia or Belarus?
We have created an online tool for whistleblowers to contact us and report violations of EU sanctions.
Make an anonymous report 👉 eusanctions.integrityline.com
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Vu de l'étranger
Tribune de J-F. Bayart, professeur en Suisse.
La France est bel et bien en train de rejoindre le camp des démocraties illibérales. Emmanuel Macron vit dans une réalité parallèle et joue avec le feu.
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Social media posts claim to show demonstrations against Ukraine and NATO in Paris, Brussels, The Hague and beyond.
Internal documents from Russian intelligence services, obtained by Le Monde and its partners, show that they were staged by Russia.
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Le 8 mai, nous célébrons aussi la défaite de ceux dont ce parti, cofondé par un ancien Waffen SS, est l’héritier.
N’oublions jamais. 🇫🇷
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What browser extensions is everyone using to block Twitter Blue accounts?
I've been just blocking DOM elements with 1blocker, but am looking for something more flexible to allowlist some accounts and that would be less fragile than DOM filtering rules.
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