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Drug gangs pose grave threat to European security, agency warns
Scale of Europe’s narcotics crisis ‘not even possible to imagine’, says EUDA director Alexis Goosdeel
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European countries have been slow in waking up to the growing threat of criminal drug gangs - great piece here from @barneyjopson.bsky.social 🧵
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“more than 200,000 European banking jobs could vanish by 2030 as lenders lean into AI and shutter physical branches. That’s roughly 10% of the workforce at 35 major banks”
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European banks plan to cut 200,000 jobs as AI takes hold | TechCrunch
The bloodletting will hit hardest in back-office operations, risk management, and compliance.
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Female barristers made up 23% of advocates presenting cases at the UK Supreme Court in 2025, up from 21% in 2024 but down on 2009, the time the Supreme Court was created, when it was 26%
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Number of women barristers in UK Supreme Court cases fails to increase in 17 years
Data highlights lack of progress for female advocates in winning prestigious legal work
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For decades, urban walkers have been treated like vehicles, with mapping tools optimising routes for a single metric – travel time – while treating a dark alley and a high street as identical, if the distance is the same.
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What’s the safest way to walk home at night? We’ve created an AI-powered app that shows you
This technology was developed in response to the stark disparity in how urban safety is experienced by women and men.
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Child exploitation content on X/Twitter sharply increased under Musk, who not only abruptly disbanded the group of volunteer experts advising the platform on child safety, image exploitation, and other abuses in 2022, but tried to blame them for the company's CSAM problem www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1...
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A man tried to create a "women's safety" app called Tea. Then, images and more than a million private conversations, including some about cheating partners and abortions, were compromised in two security breaches.
Top stories of 2025 that we're still following:
www.404media.co/women-dat….
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Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
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I am a day too late but I guess I will ring in the new year by highlighting what I think are the best stories I published last year.
The Tea hack and its origin story could only happen in 2025, and says a lot about privacy, virality, love etc: www.404media.co/how-teas-….
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How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
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all of energy twitter patting itself on the back for continuing to post on a website that is mostly users prompting a generative chatbot to create non-consensual sexualised imagery of children
It's where the Serious Smart Experts are Posting
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Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content - CNBC TV18
X is facing backlash after users exploited its Grok AI to morph photos of women and children into explicit images, sparking global concern over AI-driven sexual abuse and platform safety.
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What an awful perk this is...it's saying "hey, get addicted to nicotine so we can squeeze more ideas out of you."
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity
www.wsj.com/tech/tech-st...
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Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity
A nicotine replacement for smokers has started popping up in offices in the tech industry, despite health hazards.
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Is it just us or does everything look the same now?
Carole @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, Kyle @chaykak.bsky.social and Yancey @ystrickler.bsky.social on culture flattening, platform incentives and how algorithms make everything the same 🧵
Watch back: citizensreunited.substack….
citizensreunited.substack.com
How Algorithms Make Everything the Same with Carole Cadwalladr, Kyle Chayka & Yancey Strickler - Full recording
A recording from The Citizens's live video
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an actual case of 'tech for good' but none of the so called "AI/tech for good" proponents that often shout the loudest nowhere to be seen
The Markup@themarkup.org
As blackouts in Gaza cut communications, a crowdsourced effort by an Egyptian writer reconnects family members, one eSIM card at a time
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Utah and California are the first states to step up to regulate how police use AI to write their reports. Who will be next? eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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AI Police Reports: Year In Review
In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated at a disturbing rate. Why? The most popular
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If you haven't seen them, the PS2 25TH chorus now at the inauguration are stars of Facebook. www.facebook.com/PS22Chorus
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Gregg Breinberg (PS22 Chorus Director) | Staten Island NY
Gregg Breinberg (PS22 Chorus Director), Staten Island. 592,320 likes · 24,154 talking about this. Gregg Breinberg is the director of the Webby Award-winning PS22 Chorus of Staten Island
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Peace out, 2025. Yesterday marked the official end of my AI Year. 🆕 newsletter about the lessons, the hype and the reality of living with it all. More coming in May 2026 when I Am Not A Robot hits shelves. 📙 joannastern.beehiiv.com/p….
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Not Another Year-End Email
Lessons from a year spent living with AI
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This is the energy I'm bringing into 2026:
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Happy New Year — and thank you to our community for all your support in 2025 💪
ICYMI, here’s a roundup of what we’ve built together over the past five years as we prepare to fight the good fight in 2026 👉
citizensreunited.substack.com
Five Years of Standing Up to Power
2025 marks 5 years of the Citizens taking on the tech-bros and their enablers. Here’s exactly what we’ve done.
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Simon Willison has a great summary of LLM progress in 2025:
• Reasoning models have made LLMs useful for web search.
• AI agents now work well for Deep Research and Coding.
• AI image generation went mainstream.
• Vibe coding became a big business.
• OpenAI lost the lead & Google’s Gemini caught up
simonwillison.net
2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
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A 450-foot Prometheus. A 500-foot George Washington. Tech investors are racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power.
bloom.bg
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
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There’s never been a better time to learn what’s at stake and how to protect yourself from invasive age verification mandates. Head over to EFF.org/Age to explore our explainers, user-friendly guides, technical breakdowns, and advocacy tools. The fight to protect the internet begins with you.
www.eff.org
Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious
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A new version of the Shai-Hulud worm was seen by Snyk spreading on the npm ecosystem
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The Holiday Whisper: Shai-Hulud 3.0 | Snyk
A refined variant of the Shai-Hulud malware, dubbed The Golden Path, has been discovered targeting the npm ecosystem during the holiday season. Security teams are encouraged to prioritize structural h...
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Happy New Year ✨
This year, why not join ORG in the fight to protect digital rights 🦾
Becoming a member helps us to campaign, lobby, go to court – whatever it takes to challenge restrictions to our human rights.
Join the movement today ⬇️
www.openrightsgroup.org/join/
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Become a member
Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, fighting to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online.
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So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves
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happy new 2026, starting the year with some redistribution baby!
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Zohran Mamdani to press ahead with tax rises for New York City millionaires
New mayor dismisses fears of an exodus of wealthy residents as he looks to fund his affordability agenda
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