Mastodawn

UK Delays Isle of Man Assisted Suicide Law

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/uk-delays-isle-of-man-assisted-suicide-law/

We called out Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program this morning as opaque gatekeeping. Then we applied. Approval came in under an hour. A Cyber Essentials cert and three honest sentences about what you actually do was sufficient. If you do legitimate security work and haven't applied -- the barrier is lower than it looks. https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignauditor/p/if-you-dont-ask-youll-never-find

#CyberSecurity #CyberEssentials #Anthropic #Claude #AI #InfoSec #DataProtection #IsleOfMan

If You Don't Ask, You'll Never Find Out.

Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program: what it actually takes to get approved.

The Sovereign Auditor

al 4h ago

Anthropic's Mythos AI can autonomously chain zero-days across every major OS and browser. UK banks get access next week. The regulators are being briefed -- on a timeline set by the vendor. The Isle of Man is not in the room. New on Sovereign Auditor.
#Anthropic #CyberSecurity #DataProtection #IsleOfMan #AI #Mythos
https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignauditor/p/the-cure-and-the-disease-have-the-same-vendor

al 8h ago

IoM data breaches: 800 people affected in Q1 2025/26. By Q4: 16,600. Same quarter Manx Care was reprimanded for repeated same-type errors. 72-hour reporting compliance dropped from 92% to 70% in a single quarter. And the threat landscape hasn't shifted yet.
#DataProtection #IsleOfMan #CyberSecurity #GDPR #DataBreach
https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignauditor/p/the-curve-nobody-wanted-to-see

The Curve Nobody Wanted to See

New figures from the Isle of Man Information Commissioner’s Office show 47 data breaches were reported in Q4 of the 2025/26 financial year, affecting an estimated 16,600 individuals.

The Sovereign Auditor

Primo Natura 1d ago

"Planting 30,000 Trees Surpasses Goal for Regenerating a Rainforest on the Isle of Man"

#IsleOfMan #Trees #Environment

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/by-planting-30000-trees-trust-surpasses-its-goal-for-rainforest-reforestation-on-the-isle-of-man/

Planting 30,000 Trees Surpasses Goal for Regenerating a Rainforest on the Isle of Man

Temperate rainforests are one of the rarest kinds of ecosystems, and in the UK are found in Wales, on the Isle of Man, and a few other locations.

Good News Network

Rook Review 1d ago

FIDE Grand Swiss 2027 returns to the Isle of Man with $900,000 prize fund

https://rookreview.com/news/fide-grand-swiss-2027-isle-of-man-prize-fund

#chess #news #IsleofMan

Jim Richmond 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📷⛳️ 🏉🇪🇺🏏3d ago

Villa Marina Arcade
#douglas #isleofman #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #sonyrx100vii #photography #fotografia #fotografie

al 5d ago

lighthouselore

Some jobs just never get automated.

#HauntedLighthouse #DevOps #sundayhumour #Selfhosted #IsleOfMan

al Apr 10

New on The Sovereign Auditor -- a long read for a Friday afternoon.
France just committed 2.5 million civil servants to leaving Microsoft. The reasoning is simple: a server in Paris is not legally French if the company is governed by US law.
Meanwhile Australia signed a new five-year Microsoft deal in February.
Different calculations. Different conclusions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignauditor/p/the-exit-and-the-lock-in
#DataSovereignty #CLOUDACT #Linux #OpenSource #GDPR #IsleOfMan #DigitalSovereignty #EU

The Exit and the Lock-In

"Why France is building a forest while Australia buys plastic fruit"

The Sovereign Auditor

🇮🇲Dan Apr 10

Yes the world is shit. And getting shitter.

But somehow a steam powered conveyance to a beer festival (again!) harks back to simpler times and makes it all better.
#IsleOfMan #IoM