Tracy Hackshaw

📢 #ICANN86 Prep Week begins next week, 20–21 May. Join the online sessions to prepare for the ICANN86 Policy Forum, taking place 8–11 June in Seville, Spain. From policy updates to community discussions, Prep Week is designed to help participants get ready for the meeting week ahead. 🔗 Register and view the schedule >> go.icann.org/icann86 #ICANN

📢 #ICANN has updated the Registration Data Policy to include requirements for contracted parties to respond within 24 hours to urgent requests for the lawful disclosure of gTLD nonpublic registration data from authenticated requestors. 🔗 Learn more >> go.icann.org/4eDCQwr

Last week, as part of the Geneva Cyber Week, the #GenevaDialogue brought together policymakers, critical infrastructure operators, cybersecurity practitioners, AI governance experts, and civil society for a frank conversation on cyber norms under pressure. The question at the centre: when AI accelerates both attacks and defences in equal measure — and when the governance terms around commercial AI tools are quietly shifting — what does "responsible behaviour" actually mean in practice? The discussion was rich! And exactly the kind of reality check this moment calls for. The insights gathered will feed directly into the third chapter of the Geneva Manual on Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace. Thank you to everyone who joined — in Geneva and online — for bringing your expertise and candour to the table, and special thanks to our team captains for the scenario session: Fan Yang, Franscesca Bosco and Anne-Marie Buzatu! The session report will be available soon. 👇 genevadialogue.ch/event/cyber-st…

📢 #ICANN has opened a call for Expressions of Interest for the 2027 Nominating Committee (NomCom) Chair and Chair-Elect positions. The NomCom is responsible for selecting key leadership positions within ICANN, helping support the organization’s multistakeholder model and global accountability framework. 🗓️ Expressions of Interest must be submitted by 29 May 2026. 🔗 Learn more >> go.icann.org/4nmB3hB

Delighted to welcome Mr. Rodney Taylor, Secretary General of Caribbean Telecommunications Union, to UPU. Discussions explored opportunities to strengthen digital transformation, cybersecurity, connectivity, while supporting e-commerce & trade development in the Caribbean region.

📢 Progress continues on a long-term solution for access to nonpublic registration data. The #ICANN community has begun developing Supplemental Recommendations to update System for Standardized Access/Disclosure (SSAD) policy recommendations, building on insights from the Registration Data Request Service. 🔗 Learn more by viewing the SSAD Fact Sheet >> go.icann.org/48n2PEy

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

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The web is disappearing 🕳️ According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the whole story. In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive 📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vanish… 🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail… #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter

📢 IGF 2026 announced! The 21st Internet Governance Forum will take place in Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪, 14–18 Dec 2026. 🌍 Stay tuned: intgovforum.org/en/dashboard/i… New to IGF? intgovforum.org/en/content/wel…

Global cooperation in cyberspace matters. From 4–8 May, #GCW26 brings experts to Geneva on cybersecurity & digital governance. On 4 May, the #IGF hosts “BPF: Securing Internet Access & Core Resources in Conflict & Crises.” 🔗 Register: genevacyberweek.com @UNIDIR @SwissMFA

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

📍 Geneva, Switzerland UPU was pleased to contribute to the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Association (FIATA) HQ Meeting 2026, and participate in a panel on "De Minimis and E-Commerce in Practice: What Freight Forwarders Need to Know" 💡

📄 The Internet’s infrastructure relies on coordination. Our latest OCTO publication explores the essential relationship between #ICANN and the @IETF —two communities working together since day one to keep the global Internet interoperable. Read more >> go.icann.org/48n8QB9

#ICANN Launches the Internet Governance Network! 📣 A voluntary space for the global community to exchange insights and resources on key governance issues. Join the platform to share insights on current topics: #IGF and #ITUPP26. 👉 go.icann.org/3PZNvr4 #OneWorldOneInternet

The data shows that the three biggest U.S. carriers – Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and American Airlines – have become less punctual over the course of the past five years.

The actual scale of the Artemis II mission

Iran says it is halting traffic in the Strait of Hormuz after Israel attacked Lebanon, testing fragile ceasefire deal. Follow live updates. cnn.it/4vg5XLY

President Donald Trump said he’d agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, less than two hours before his 8 p.m. deadline to destroy a “whole civilization.” Trump said the ceasefire agreement was made on the condition that Iran agree to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz. cnn.it/4sUgNFV