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Today in "we're not ready":
“Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. The timeline is not years, it is months,”
https://bit.ly/3QuhU1h

AI models capable of devastating attacks on governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns

Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI model

The Guardian

Gavin Starks 4d ago

Dr. Jim Ellsworth 4d ago

#Trumpism is the #enshittification of government.

cc: @pluralistic

https://www.threads.com/@meidastouch/post/DZyANIVkpkM

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch) on Threads

A few shots of the Reflecting Pool today as crews continue working to remove the algae while paint continues peeling from the bottom. June 19, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.

Threads

Gavin Starks 4d ago

It's exactly a year to the day since the UK Data Act became law(!)

Fitting then, that Maria Harris (Open Property Data Association) announce a major programme to help anyone buying a home.
https://gov.uk/government/news/homebuying-shake-up-to-slash-delays-cut-costs-and-stop-sales-falling-through

Homebuying shake-up to slash delays, cut costs and stop sales falling through

New rules introduced to simplify homebuying and selling making the process easier and simpler.

GOV.UK

Gavin Starks 5d ago

#emfcamp people... Experimental EMF Constellation just for us: https://emfcamp.cl8.io
A dozen EMF'ers have signed up in the last few days, would be great to connect on skills and interests
(what is it? https://dgen.net/0/constellation)

Gavin Starks 6d ago

today in "we're not ready" + sad-lol-face:
"the keynote speaker said absolutely nothing about using Claude to write his academic work until I intervened in the Q&A"
https://bsky.app/profile/alwaystheself.bsky.social/post/3mohg5hld6s2a

Crystal Fleming クリスタル (@alwaystheself.bsky.social)

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Bluesky Social

Gavin Starks 6d ago

Y? X or W or B or... Meh https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty

W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty

European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.

Elena Rossini

Gavin Starks 6d ago

Web 0.0
Is it time?

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Gavin Starks Jun 16

thanks to those already coming in! If you are coming to @emf do give it a go, and share with others coming - it's an experiment to see if we can help encourage serendipity. (nb: I need to manually approve you, so don't worry if it takes a day :) )

Gavin Starks Jun 15

#emfcamp people... Experimental constellation just for us. https://emfcamp.cl8.io
(guide, based on my dgen one, https://dgen.net/0/constellation)

Sign In - EMF camp constellation

Gavin Starks Jun 13

Today in "we're not ready"
Anthropic has suspended its powerful new AI model after US authorities raised security concerns just days following its public release. Anthropic ordered to suspend foreign nationals from using Fable 5...as "too powerful".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI suspended over security fears

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, released publicly this week, sparked concerns about cybersecurity and hacking.

BBC News

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