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Aaaand today a government agency (DIT) needs more time to determine whether it can disclose communication between a minister and a lobbying firm.
DIT is among the bottom 4 government agencies when it comes to granting FOI requests.
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London Payments Firm Moves $1 Billion a Month Despite ‘Red Flags’ via
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Kids messing around with guns have accidentally killed more than 1,000 Americans since 2015 trib.al/C4EtRtO via
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The reason? Commercial interests... but surely that's the case for all companies engaging with government? Where's the sunlight?
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The UK government response rate to FOI requests is appalling.
Just had another request - for a list of attendees and minutes from a meeting between a big company and politician - kicked down the road
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British Gas says “this isn’t how we do business” which is a strange thing to say when this is how they have been doing business.
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Meta has been paying to scrape other sites for years while suing companies that scrape Facebook and Instagram
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Record labels fear that results from TikTok's tests to restrict music on the app will be used as leverage to pay them less
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Will users mind if they can’t use the latest hit song in their TikToks?
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Tory political strategist Isaac Levido, currently advising Rishi Sunak, was a lobbyist for Palantir from until the end of last year.
gisterofconsultantlobbyists.force.com/CLR_Public_Pro
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"A search vehicle was driving past at 70 kilometres per hour on the Great Northern Highway when a detection device revealed radiation"
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"The UK's still-unseen semiconductor strategy — which missed its publication deadline last autumn — has suffered from internal disconnect and government disarray, setting the country behind its global allies in a crucial race to become more self-reliant."
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As people share the potentials for AI imaging, it's important to flag that pornographic deepfakes are a very prevalent use of these tools.
Don't have newer stats but in 2019 reported 96% of deepfake videos were non-consensual adult content
sensity.ai/reports/
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stop sexualizing people without their consent.
that’s it, that’s the tweet.
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Looking to update your #datajournalism skills 💾 ?
Explore this directory of small, free tools and web apps for creators of data analysis, data viz, maps, graphic design and more:
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If Palantir lose the FDP bid, then according to this answer, NHS England will have no idea how to get to the new system from what they do today, and the ICS interop is possibly the Palantir fig leaf that (Palantir consultant) Swindells tells others it is:
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A record share of Londoners are avoiding property portals and opting to sell their homes on their own terms — which are increasingly negotiated over WhatsApp bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
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Who is good to talk to about web scraping for competitive intelligence?
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Come on - the Daily Mail Online stories HAVE to be being written by AI bots. This is a story about Jennifer Lawrence wearing some clothes:
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Very excited about having Mark on the team
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Confirmed. Heading to Blighty!
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Was just looking: In the 177 days since Chesa Boudin was recalled (through the end of last month): Property crime in San Francisco is UP about 14% compared to the 912 days that Chesa was in office.
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EXCL: Dominic Raab facing much broader bullying investigation than originally anticipated with at least 24 civil servants involved in formal complaints against him.
Govt insiders believe severity of claims means DPM will struggle to survive in post.
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Prosus CEO says it is cutting 30% of staff from its corporate hubs.
The e-commerce group employs 30,000 people in 80 countries, but says 15 offices will affected.
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“Both musician Will.i.am and actor Matthew McConaughey are frequently involved in strategy discussions”
Great read on the situation at Salesforce:
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The Indian government also pressured YouTube to take it down and said that YouTube complied.
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION - A vast cache of hacked material from Russia has shed new light on how the UK govt helped warlord Prigozhin mount a targeted legal attack on a journalist in London. This is #londongrad writ large.
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DeepMind is closing one of its Canadian offices following the job cuts at Alphabet
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DeepMind has also been making a lot of noise about its chatbot amid the ChatGPT hype
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Evri just delivered something on time!
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normal organic tweets here
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Does this mean the Mail is now anti pensioners?
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Monaco should step up its efforts to investigate and prosecute money laundering, according to a team of European inspectors bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
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lmao, what are the three words? wrong answers only
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The best thing about switching your web search to ChatGPT is then the people who put all this info on the web don't get any credit and you have no idea how reliable the info is since all sources are jumbled into a giant opaque probability distribution.
Oh wait, that's terrible.
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Staggering. Unconscionable. Systemic, reckless neglect. But unfortunately not shocking for all of us who've been paying attention to the very clear (known, invited, forewarned) risk of it happening from the outset...
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