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Rowland Manthorpe

@rowlsmanthorpe
36 posts
2023-01-14
Interesting twist to this story “BleepingComputer reached out to LockBitSupport, the public-facing representative of the ransomware operation, and was told that they did not attack Royal Mail and they blamed it on other threat actors” https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ...
2023-01-14 View on X
Telegraph

Sources: a Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang infected the UK's Royal Mail customs label printers, forcing the postal service to stop overseas deliveries

2023-01-09
Great piece on the myth of the creator economy and its inability to create a viable middle class The trouble with winner-take-all economies is that when they crash, a lot of people lose out https://open.substack.com/...
2023-01-09 View on X
Big Technology

The economic downturn is hurting the creator economy, one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade, in particular since its middle class hasn't yet emerged

We're seeing the truth about one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade.  —  After years of hype, the Creator Economy is slamming into reality.

Many similarities between the riots in Brazil and the Jan 6th insurrection in the United States, but also some important differences The ownership of Twitter is one https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-09 View on X
Washington Post

How Telegram, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter were used to boost election fraud claims in Brazil before riots hit Congress and government buildings

Researchers detected a surge in agressive rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday's rioting

2021-03-01
And of course do take a look at the work being done on Palantir's NHS contract by @maryftz and @cori_crider. You may know Cori from today's papers https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-03-01 View on X
The Guardian

Profile of lawyer and activist Cori Crider who is suing Facebook and outsourcing company CPL in Ireland's High Court on behalf of traumatized content moderators

innocent or guilty — could be mangled by systems beyond their control. And she learned how to beat billion$ opponents with a fraction of the financial firepower. She describes her ...

2020-11-03
Incredible story in The Times, which I'm told is definitely true. For most of its existence, the contact tracing app for England and Wales has been using the wrong risk threshold, so it's hardly been sending out any alerts telling people to self-isolate https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
2020-11-03 View on X
Sky News

Sources: UK's NHS COVID app, downloaded 19M times, had the wrong risk threshold and sent warnings to a “shockingly low” number of users about potential exposure

The wrong threshold had reportedly been set for the app and was not recording those who were close enough to transmit the virus.

2020-09-24
What happened during the trials of the contact tracing app? If the government knows it hasn't told anyone, so this excellent piece is the best you're going to get. Several key issues raised - going to be *interesting* to see how this plays out https://www.wired.co.uk/...
2020-09-24 View on X
MacRumors

NHS COVID-19, a contact tracing app created by the UK government, launches in England and Wales with Exposure Notification API from Apple and Google

NHS COVID-19, a contact tracing app created by the UK government, is rolling out to residents of England and Wales as of today, with the app available from the iOS App Store.

2020-09-10
Big data protection news. Hard to see how this doesn't have huge repercussions https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-10 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Ireland's privacy regulator has sent Facebook a preliminary order to stop sending EU user data to the US, the first big step in enforcing July's Privacy Shield

Privacy regulator's order to suspend the company's data transfers to the U.S. cites concerns over American government surveillance practices

The legal position in Europe is increasingly becoming clear: Facebook is a data breach
2020-09-10 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Ireland's privacy regulator has sent Facebook a preliminary order to stop sending EU user data to the US, the first big step in enforcing July's Privacy Shield

Privacy regulator's order to suspend the company's data transfers to the U.S. cites concerns over American government surveillance practices

2020-07-19
One of the many great side-effects of the internet is making it impossible to express excitement without sounding like clickbait, but this is honestly the real thing https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-19 View on X
Operators & Delian's Ramblings

Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text, and could thus succeed as a “writing buddy”

OpenAI, an AI research foundation started by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and a few other leaders in ML …

Good piece giving a Turing Test to GPT-3. Unlike most AI systems it has what we might call common sense, so to trick it you have to pose questions no human would ever ask https://lacker.io/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-19 View on X
Operators & Delian's Ramblings

Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text, and could thus succeed as a “writing buddy”

OpenAI, an AI research foundation started by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and a few other leaders in ML …

🤯🤯🤯 Read this blogpost all the way to the end. I PROMISE you'll be amazed https://maraoz.com/...
2020-07-19 View on X
Operators & Delian's Ramblings

Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text, and could thus succeed as a “writing buddy”

OpenAI, an AI research foundation started by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and a few other leaders in ML …

2020-06-06
And here they are. Time to get reading! By the way, it is just such a delight to have documents like this published openly. Huge credit to openDemocracy for taking this approach - more news organisations should follow its lead https://www.opendemocracy.net/ ...
2020-06-06 View on X
The Register

UK government publishes the contracts National Health Service signed with Microsoft, Google, Faculty, and Palantir to create a COVID-19 datastore

Lindsay Clark / The Register :

2020-05-21
I'll be using it, don't @ me OH YOU CAN'T https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-21 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter is testing a feature that lets a tweet's author limit who can reply, giving the options of Everyone, People You Follow, and Only People You Mention

the chance for a nobody to be heard by a somebody, or for a somebody who's full of BS to get called on it in a way that rarely happens anywhere else. https://onezero.medium.com/......

2020-04-28
Not sure about this. The NHS has levels of trust far exceeding even Apple and Google. The real issue, it seems to me, is not having auto-installation on every phone in the country - but perhaps they believe that will come later, once the A/G protocol is released https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-28 View on X
BBC

UK's NHS says it's making a contact tracing app that uses a centralized approach, giving it more insight into COVID-19's spread than Apple and Google's tools

The UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model to the one proposed by Apple and Google, despite concerns raised about privacy and performance.

2020-04-18
Wow. The CMA has provisionally cleared Amazon's investment in Deliveroo “in light of a deterioration in Deliveroo's financial position as a result of coronavirus” Just four months ago it suggested the deal could damage competition https://www.gov.uk/...
2020-04-18 View on X
Financial Times

UK's competition watchdog provisionally approves Amazon's investment in Deliveroo, after concluding the startup risked collapse absent new funds

Financial Times :

2020-04-17
Facebook have made this change after a campaign by @Avaaz - but as you'll see, it hasn't gone all the way and directly challenged anyone about misinformation It's interesting to compare Avaaz's proposal. Much stronger. Would it be more effective or would it enrage people? https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-17 View on X
The Guardian

Facebook to notify users who liked, commented, or reacted to COVID-19 misinfo and guide them to WHO resources, as report finds debunked claims on the platform

Users who have liked, shared or commented on posts with false claims will be directed to WHO's ‘myth busters’ page

Here's Facebook's statement. “We want to connect people who may have interacted with harmful misinformation about the virus with the truth from authoritative sources in case they see or hear these claims again off of Facebook” https://about.fb.com/...
2020-04-17 View on X
The Guardian

Facebook to notify users who liked, commented, or reacted to COVID-19 misinfo and guide them to WHO resources, as report finds debunked claims on the platform

Users who have liked, shared or commented on posts with false claims will be directed to WHO's ‘myth busters’ page

There's no doubt coronavirus misinformation is still going viral, esp in languages other than English - but never been clear corrections would stop that Avaaz commissioned a study to look into this. The results are quite striking https://secure.avaaz.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-17 View on X
The Guardian

Facebook to notify users who liked, commented, or reacted to COVID-19 misinfo and guide them to WHO resources, as report finds debunked claims on the platform

Users who have liked, shared or commented on posts with false claims will be directed to WHO's ‘myth busters’ page

Wow. The CMA has provisionally cleared Amazon's investment in Deliveroo “in light of a deterioration in Deliveroo's financial position as a result of coronavirus” Just four months ago it suggested the deal could damage competition https://www.gov.uk/...
2020-04-17 View on X
Financial Times

UK's competition watchdog provisionally approves Amazon's investment in Deliveroo, after concluding the startup risked collapse absent new funds

CMA says delivery group was at risk of failing without fresh funding  —  The UK's competition regulator has granted provisional approval …

2020-04-16
There's no doubt coronavirus misinformation is still going viral, esp in languages other than English - but never been clear corrections would stop that Avaaz commissioned a study to look into this. The results are quite striking https://secure.avaaz.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-16 View on X
Axios

Facebook will notify users who have liked, commented, or reacted to coronavirus misinformation and guide them to WHO resources

Facebook will begin informing people who have engaged with coronavirus misinformation on its main Facebook app, the company announced Thursday.