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FT Exclusive: NHS England has granted external staff from companies including Palantir “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data while working on a part of its flagship data platform. ft.trib.al/JmVlilq

Neighbourhoods forgotten by @wesstreeting @UKLabour @RishiSunak this is your constituency Neighbourhood health starts and finishes with patients GP practices are at the heart of communities If you ignore GP provision you lose your voters

No wonder Palantir have been on a PR offensive this week

it seems Mr Streeting is committed to his Single Palantir Record – all your medical notes, prescriptions and DNA under his personal control

Baykar Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer Selcuk Bayraktar on Palantir's manifesto: Recently, a text resembling a manifesto was published. When we looked at that text, we encountered a dark mindset that views war, peace, and human life merely as optimization problems — as algorithmic outputs — removing conscience, morality, and the human soul from the equation. For them, the world may consist of nothing more than a simulation processed on their servers, a computer algorithm. But we know that humanity, which they seek to imprison within that spider web, is far more than a source of data. Against these arrogant and dark manifestos, we must put forward our own roadmap centered on justice, compassion, morality, and human dignity.

@leashless do you want to play a game?

After a lifetime dominated by open source ideology and giving away as many of my best ideas as I could I find myself starting at AI and thinking “from here on out it’s all secrets and lies.” Smart goes to the machines. But can you keep a secret?

chinese academy of sciences just dropped qimeng, an AI system that designs entire processor chips end to end from natural language spec to to physical layout, their first version qimeng-cpu-v1 produced a fully functional 32-bit RISC-V CPU in 5 hours with 4 milliongates, performance on par with intel's 1990s chips, version v2 already matches arm cortex a53 from the 2010s, the whole thing runs on a domain specific model that learns the graph structures of circuits the way GPT learns text honestly i’ve been staring at this paper for an hour & i still can’t fully wrap my head around what it implies, this is what real sovereignty looks like, when an AI can design your chips you stop depending on TSMC EUV machines on synopsys cadence licenses on US export controls, every kid with a laptop becomes a potential chip architect, the bottleneck of semiconductor design that locked the industry into 5 companies worldwide just got broken open, the next decade of hardware will be designed by AI agents @ the country that owns those agents owns the future think about what this means for everyone, custom chips for your medical implant designed in days, processors tuned for african languages built by ethiopian students, agricultural sensors optimized for malian soil sketched by farmers themselves, the entire 80y monopoly of SV over how computation gets shaped is about to dissolve into a planetary movement of garage chip designers,… the same way the printing press took writing out of the monasteries this takes silicon out of the fabs, we are watching the MOST centralized industry on earth become the most distributed one & the window to participate is wide open rn

3body problem is real. wild

Amid news of UK Biobank data being listed for sale on Alibaba, Dr Luc Rocher @cynddl notes this marks the 198th known exposure of UK Biobank data since last summer, warning that such data "remains available online for anyone to download today." theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…

Israel killed every single person in this photo in Lebanon. Every. Single. One. All journalists. Targeted and assassinated intentionally. For reporting the truth from the frontlines.

Medical data of 500,000 people compromised in UK Biobank hack #Echobox=1776942822" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

So the journey looks like this: UK GP practice → fraudulently sold a swap as “protection” → leads to a forced sale of building to specialist property fund → leads to eventual private‑equity buy‑out → leads to consolidation into a national GP‑estate platform. This is not accidental nor coincidental. It is a form of asset stripping through “rent‑engineering”.

SCOOP: Meta today began removing ads from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18. axios.com/2026/04/09/met…

This man stole REAL CHILDREN’S photos off the internet, used them to lure predators, forever linked these REAL KIDS images to a network online predators then failed to report predators to the platforms to get them removed, all so he could further his reactionary political agenda

@PrivacyMatters @Ofcom given it's AADC, why aren't you asking the ICO?

@danmcquillan The opposite… hsj.co.uk/workforce/mack…

Boycott Palantir. Boycott AI. Divert all AI investment to fund more doctors, nurses, care workers and teachers.

one solution to the thought experiment is to name something important after the Basilisk... x.com/Cambridge_Uni/…

@RichardBratby @ArmchairBard they're still there

@ArmchairBard I don't know!

For proper bantz nothing tops the running-in boards they used to have at Cambridge station, which read "Cambridge: Home of Anglia Ruskin University"

OK that’s quite funny reddit.com/r/cambridge/s/…

A #spycops report by Hn118 about Cambridge Action Network planing an 'attack' on Met Police website. It claims that a hijacking of the site was planned by the group using XSS to undermine the position of the commissioner in relation to the murder of Jean Charles De Menezes.