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This pattern is in much wider use than online pharmacies. The majority of online retailers we have scanned include third-parties on their websites that collect email addresses used for tracking across the entire web. baycloud.com/Blog/PostDetail…

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Apple activates global iPhone 'kill switch' to disrupt phone theft networks msn.com/en-gb/news/insight/a…

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Tiger Island 🧡 🐾 Deep in western Nepal, a team of wildlife filmmakers and scientists embark on a groundbreaking expedition to follow the lives of tigers in extraordinary detail. As they track two mothers and their cubs, they begin to uncover behaviours never seen before. Coming soon. #TigerIsland #TigerCubs #NewBehaviour
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The new government of Hungary after inauguration. Never been so cool to be Hungarian.
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Often called one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval streets, The Shambles in York is lined with overhanging timber-framed buildings that date back to the 14th century, creating an intact glimpse of the past.
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Once you realise that Effective Altruism is a global cradle-to-grave welfare scheme for midwits, then a lot of their odd behaviour begins to make more sense. It’s a decentralised cult that gives people even to do (literally) nothing, eg “mid career development grants”. Success is measured in attention not results. It’s all “capacity building”. There is no attachment to This Year’s Thing. Funding for Next Year’s Thing is already assured. Joe has already moved onto creating a Magic Tree City. The year after it will be something else. Funding is infinite.
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✍️ A fear of speaking the truth to the executive class has helped create the world’s biggest bubble. The AI isn’t working. A satirical account is doing the job that the media won’t do, and explaining it. At @TheCriticMag I write about how @gothburz is pioneering a new kind of journalism thecritic.co.uk/the-emperors…
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“Companies are cutting human workers who are cheaper than the AI replacing them, to fund AI infrastructure that isn't generating measurable productivity returns” Gemini thinks I called it in 2023. But you just can’t trust AI. 😇
🦔Nvidia's VP of applied deep learning told Axios that for his team, the cost of compute is far beyond the cost of employees. An MIT study found AI automation is economically viable in only 23% of roles where vision is a primary part of the work, meaning human labor remains cheaper in the vast majority of cases. Uber's CTO said he's back to the drawing board because his 2026 AI budget is already blown. AI software fees have increased 20% to 37% over the past year. Despite all of this, Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capital expenditures for AI this year, a 69% increase from 2025, while laying off more than 92,000 tech workers. My Take The core contradiction of the AI moment is now being stated openly by people inside the industry. Companies are cutting human workers who are cheaper than the AI replacing them, to fund AI infrastructure that isn't generating measurable productivity returns, financed by investors who are also funding the AI companies selling the tokens at prices those companies cannot sustain without continued subsidy. My honest read is that the workforce decisions being made right now are irreversible on a timeline the technology cannot meet. The entry-level pipeline being dismantled today will take a decade to rebuild. The engineers being cut to fund token budgets that exceed their salaries are the same people who would catch the failures when the AI gets it wrong. Companies are making permanent structural changes based on a cost structure that doesn't exist yet and a productivity case that by their own executives' admission hasn't materialized. At some point the distance between the bet and the reality has to close, and the people who absorbed the cost of being wrong won't be the ones who made the decision. Hedgie🤗
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We have just submitted a complaint to the @ICOnews regarding Pharmacy2U sharing our email addresses and other personal data with a US based databroker baycloud.com/blog/PostDetail… #privacy #GDPR #PECR

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On back of MPs letter about #TattleLife @iconews said it was investigating. But how can it regulate #onlineabuse when it failed to update its policy guidance for #GDPR despite saying it would do so for 5 yrs, then deleted this & now says it holds no info? inforrm.org/2026/03/31/erase…
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Manchester, March 1934. The 35B tram to Stockport travels down Upper Lloyd Street, Moss Side (Mirrorpix/Manchester Evening News).
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For more ideas on how deficiencies in monitoring and enforcing #UKGDPR might be tackled see my new working paper at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… 3/3

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.@iconews new policy to just "record" many UK #GDPR complaints is at serious odds with a @PHSOmbudsman ruling from 11/2025 which held complainants had a right to "an assessment under s. 165 of the DPA as to whether it is likely or unlikely that the processing" was lawful. 1/3
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Ignore the awful headline - this is a very, very good read. theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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8 years on & the sycophancy seems to have dulled, though not the incompetence @minabird 11 Feb 2012 Californication digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk…

WATCH: @DCMS_SecOfState Jeremy Wright and Digital Minister @margot_james_mp are in the US, meeting some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies to discuss online harms and keeping UK internet users safe online gov.uk/government/news/jerem…
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