Notices by Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)

“Yuck”: #Wikipedia pauses #AI summaries after editor revolt - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/yuck-wikipedia-pauses-ai-summaries-after-editor-revolt/

World’s biggest sand battery to heat Finnish town without fossil fuels - https://thenextweb.com/news/worlds-biggest-sand-battery-heat-finnish-town-fossil-fuels " The device could help regions across Europe wean off natural gas "

Donald #Trump Declares He Should Have Faced Trial - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/05/donald-trump-declares-he-should-have-faced-trial/ "The entire premise of this #EO is that things Trump and his White Houses have done — from lying about his weight and height to his theft of classified documents — must be prosecuted."

#Microsoft didn’t cut services to International Criminal Court, its president says - https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-services-international-criminal-court-president-american-sanctions-trump-tech-icc-amazon-google/ but the disconnection took place: so who did it? #trump #icc

Expanded #Marine Protections Around South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Take Effect - https://www.pew-bertarelli-ocean-legacy.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2025/04/30/expanded-marine-protections-around-south-georgia-and-south-sandwich-islands-take-effect "half a million square kilometers of ocean is now closed to fishing" great news; #kudos to UK gov

Mozilla is shutting down read-it-later app #Pocket - https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/mozilla-is-shutting-down-read-it-later-app-pocket/ #mozilla utterly useless these days, ruining or shutting down its offerings...

EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis - https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/ this is big #tcf #adtech

"#Palantir jumped about 8% on Thursday, bringing its valuation to $281 billion. That puts it ahead of Salesforce, which closed at a $268 billion and had previously been ranked tenth." - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/palantir-joins-top-10-most-valuable-tech-companies-stock-at-premium.html troubling

Russian spies attended Brexit event in Parliament - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj4kze7kvdo oh look: those russian links to #brexit again; maybe #starmer should get a clue and order an inquiry into this

Israeli ministers approved a plan to capture all of #Gaza and remain there – two officials say - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/05/israel-gaza-yemen-middle-east-crisis-live-updates?page=with%3Ablock-681874428f088a65239d1e93#block-681874428f088a65239d1e93 great; so a few hundred thousand more deaths of innocent civilians as a result? #gazagenocide

A grizzly #bear comeback in #California? An old dream gets new legs - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/03/return-of-the-grizzly-california "A feasibility report using historical maps and ecological data is raising excitement: ‘It would be a slow process’" #rewilding

"Last year, Pakistan installed an incredible 22 gigawatts of solar power—more than Canada has ever built, and more than the UK has added in the past five years combined." - https://www.talkingclimate.ca/p/break-the-climate-silence just amazing; #kudos to #pakistan #renewables

#Wikipedia says it will use #AI, but not to replace human volunteers - https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/__trashed-4/ new features that “remove technical barriers,” allowing editors, moderators, and patrollers tools that allow them to accomplish what they need to do, without worrying about how to “technically achieve it.”

The Hallucinating #ChatGPT Presidency - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/ "for all the hype about generative AI systems “hallucinating,” we pay much less attention to the fact that the current President does the same thing" great spot by @mmasnick #trump

"The bond between #Europe and #Canada is strong — and growing stronger. I look forward to working closely together, both bilaterally and within the G7.

We’ll defend our shared democratic values, promote multilateralism, and champion free and fair trade." https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/apr/28/canada-election-polls-mark-carney-liberals-pierre-poilievre-conservatives-donald-trump-live-updates?page=with%3Ablock-681083b48f08212bfafe160e#block-681083b48f08212bfafe160e #carney

Dozens of members of UK Jewish body facing disciplinary action over criticism of Israel - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/dozens-of-members-of-uk-jewish-body-facing-disciplinary-action-over-criticism-of-israel "Members of Board of Deputies who signed open letter about war in Gaza are now ‘subject to a complaints procedure’" absurd bullying

Non-compliance decision on #Meta's “consent or pay” model - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1085 "did not give users the required specific choice to opt for a service that uses less of their personal data but is otherwise equivalent to the ‘personalised ads' service." #privacy #surveillance #eu

"Great news, Americans! Thanks to your god-emperor and his loyal billionaire sidekick, your Freedom Milk, is now fortified with listeria and brain parasites!" - https://boingboing.net/2025/04/22/got-contamination-fda-skips-milk-safety-tests-after-elon-fires-20000-health-and-human-services-employees.html another reason not to visit #murica: the poor quality, untested milk

How Big Tech hides its outsourced African workforce - https://restofworld.org/2025/big-tech-ai-labor-supply-chain-african-workers/ "New data reveals the hidden network of African workers powering AI, as they push for transparency from the global companies that employ them indirectly." #africa

‘Honest folk are paying for this’: the fight against Britain’s billion-pound energy heist - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/22/fight-against-britain-billion-pound-energy-heist "From raids on marijuana farms to illegal bitcoin miners, suppliers are finding new ways to tackle the rise in gas and electricity theft" amazing