The Guardian — 12/06/2026

A slightly morbid example of how you never know what your data might eventually be used for. Although this is not exactly a classical case of your privacy being violated, I have some doubts that everyone who enthusiastically chased cute virtual monsters in their neighborhood would also have volunteered to collect data to train military AI models.

The Next Web — 09/06/2026

We use Matrix, too, so this issue hits close to home for us. The timing is infortunate. Europe is actively working to reduce its digital dependency, and this incident has landed right in the middle of those efforts, ready to be weaponized by skeptics. However, the details matter. From what is currently known, neither the encryption nor the underlying infrastructure appears to have been compromised. At worst, this looks like a governance issue: a question of who can access which groups, and of insufficient user awareness about what should or shouldn't be shared in a public room. If credentials were misused through social engineering, that points to human and organizational factors, not a flaw in the technology itself.

The Yale Review — 08/06/2026

I always enjoy Melanie Mitchell's insightful articles. Her latest article gives a tour of the most important findings on how 'intelligent' today's LLMs truly are. I particularly enjoyed her discussion on how the terms we choose to talk about these technologies not only determine how we perceive them, but even inform what kind of 'intelligence' we are looking for.

The DailyGut-Check — 29/05/2026

I'm very surprised this hasn't been more covered in the media: Microsoft handed over data belonging to the Dutch government to the US House of Representatives. In compliance with the US CLOUD Act, the emails, notes, and appointments of civil servants working on the Digital Service Act were expatriated to the US. The CLOUD Act is one of the main drivers pushing Europe towards more self-governed infrastructure, and this incident certainly illustrates why.