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French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over alleged child abuse images on X

Owner of X summoned along with former CEO Linda Yaccarino over investigation by cybercrime unitBusiness live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesElon Musk has been summoned to Paris, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content.The […]

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Weekly Review 17 April 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):You can’t trust an AI shopping agent to not screw things up: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/target-ai-agent-tos Concepts you need to understand to use LLM AI effectively: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-llm-engineering-concepts-explained-in-10-minutes Using AI means designers can evaluate designs orders of magnitude faster than before: https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering I understand that

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Starmer tells social media firms in No 10 meeting ‘things can’t go on like this’

PM summons senior figures from Meta, TikTok, Google and X and says social media is ‘putting our children at risk’Keir Starmer has told social media bosses “things can’t go on like this” in a Downing Street meeting over internet safety.The prime minister summoned senior figures at Meta, TikTok, Google and X to No 10 on

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Elon Musk’s X cuts payments to users who post clickbait

Platform says it will reward original creators as it penalises ‘aggregators’ for flooding timelines with ‘stolen posts’Business live – latest updatesElon Musk’s X has reduced payments to users who post clickbait and recycle news stories as it warned account holders against “flooding the timeline” with low-quality content.Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, wrote on the

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Reform UK voters least likely to see social media posts from family and friends, study finds

Thinktank says algorithms are fuelling isolation and division after analysing posts shown to social media usersReform UK voters are the least likely to see posts from friends and family on social media and most likely to see content from brands and news organisations, a study has found.The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank said

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Weekly Review 10 April 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Using AI leads to people losing their logical thinking skills: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/ These five statistical biases are worth knowing if you work with AI training data: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-most-common-statistical-traps-in-faang-interviews One way to defeat AI plagiarism in class is to make students use typewriters: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-professor-typewriters

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Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado over new rules for artificial intelligence

Company claims law regulating AI systems, set to go into effect in June, infringes on its first amendment rightsElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado over a new AI law set to take effect in June.The suit seeks to block the state from enforcing the law, which

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Sluts, simps and body shaming: the rise of Africa’s manosphere

Experts have been alarmed at the growth of deep misogyny dressed up as self-help on social media. We profile seven men from across the continent who are gaining tractionIt is not just Europe and the US that are grappling with a growing landscape of misogynistic influencers online. While Andrew Tate, Myron Gaines, Sneako and other

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Is the UK falling out of love with social media?

Ofcom data points to more passive consumption amid changes to apps and fears about mental health and past postsPosting significant events in your life, from birthdays to weddings and promotions, is a social media staple. But Jenny, like many other Britons recently, has hesitated over contributing to the infinite scroll.“I wouldn’t have even posted my

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Weekly Review 3 April 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):AI rollouts fail because staff are scared of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/workplace_ai_forrester/ Looks like even AI can become over-confident from false praise: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/ai_models_persona_prompting/ Shoe-horning a huge AI model into a PC seems like an impressive engineering achievement for a problem that doesn’t exist:

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