michael veale
@mikarv
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assoc prof @UCLLaws, fellow @ivir_uva. not resigned to today's digital power structures (yet). š¦£ https://t.co/pCUFKDvU4O https://t.co/cdvcO13Jmm
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Joined February 2009
slowing down on here: fediverse/mastodon: https://t.co/tglZQDGKXj b|uesky:
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Moving the burned-out remains of what little trust and safety they intend to retain out of California and into Texas is the most dog-whistly dog whistle you've ever heard
"We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the U.S," Mark Zuckerberg announces
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One day I will write something about why people no longer use headphones in public. My theory is connected to the demise of the headphone jackā¦ when I am PM it will be illegal š
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people wanting to fediverse and join the someone elses computer can also get in touch
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Apple indeed added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1. This is implemented in keybagd and the AppleSEPKeyStore kernel extension. It seems to have nothing to do with phone/wireless network state. Keystore is used when unlocking the device. https://t.co/ONZuU9zVt2
New from 404 Media: police freaking out at iPhones stored for forensic examination mysteriously rebooting themselves. This makes brute forcing much harder. Cops hypothesize Apple pushed an update that tells nearby iPhones to reboot if not on phone network
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New from 404 Media: police freaking out at iPhones stored for forensic examination mysteriously rebooting themselves. This makes brute forcing much harder. Cops hypothesize Apple pushed an update that tells nearby iPhones to reboot if not on phone network
404media.co
Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have not been in contact...
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šØWeāre thrilled to announce the keynote speakers for @SaTML_Conf: Michael Veale (@mikarv), Kamalika Chaudhuri (@kamalikac), and Matt Turek (DARPA). š https://t.co/hRb0OiFPQA Donāt miss out on #SaTML2025 in Copenhagenš©š°, April 2025!
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thatās not to say that students donāt get correctly diagnosed: but if the NHS route is ineffective then the private route provides a way to evidence. Universities so deluged with support requests and underfunded to individually assess them they just centrally roll over.
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Higher education sees a similar phenomenon. There is a whole industry of private sector medical certificate providers that university students from rich backgrounds use. Mitigating the inequality is a regular conversation.
A far greater proportion of private than state school pupils get extra time in examsā¦ which is even odder when you consider the wider context this is happening within: we know special educational needs are more prevalent in poorer areas https://t.co/aiqDduoTjp
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Three months of confusion. One revelation: God was listening the whole time. Get the rest of the story on my page.
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A Model Civil Procedure Code for England and Wales by Dr John Sorabji (Associate Professor at UCL Laws) has been published by Oxford University Press š https://t.co/e6qvlY191I
ucl.ac.uk
The book proposes a new model civil procedure code for England and Wales that provides an improved, simplified approach to the rules of court.
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[NEW PAPER ALERTšØ] Our new @A__W______O paper puts forward a vision for balancing the benefits and risks of open source Gen AI. It was funded by @DigInfFund, and drafted by myself & @Mathver. A short š§µ
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Install from the top, run away when itās half built and specced and hope that youāll get unbuilt necessary features in some dumb agile responsive way over time means people find their lives wrecked and literally die in the meantime.
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Incredibly wrongheaded. Automation in government isnāt about running around installing top down task templates but the ability to create bottom up tech in response to actual problems, framed locally: requires diffuse skill and capacity and maintenance and coordination.
I feel like with a small team and 2-3 years, proven tech founders could automate huge chunks of the government. I would sign up for a tour of duty (in the UK). It would need a lot of political aircover - I have no desire to fight a massive bureaucracy š¤·āāļø
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Last Tory election had 172,437 eligible electors, this one 131,680 ā nearly a quarter of Conservative Party members have left, died, or otherwise become ineligible in the last 2 years.
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will just mean that when you actually need to call a restaurant to ask a question that a machine canāt know the answer to you wonāt get an answer cause theyāll have turned off the phoneline
Sam Altman discusses AI agents: an AI that could not just book a restaurant, but call 300 restaurants looking for the best fit for you and more importantly act like a senior co-worker, collaborating on tasks for days or weeks at a time
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Is the American Dream Dead? Believe it or not, the American dream is still alive; it just costs more, which of course makes it harder to obtain, but not impossible. The ādreamā was never guaranteed anyway, it was the idea that if youāre willing to work, adapt, and take some
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Cloud isnāt just renting servers, as Microsoft knows. Why let people use your hardware for whatever they want, when you can only let them use it for whatever you say?
theregister.com
Azure's acceleration continues, but so do costs
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count all autocomplete then youāre there
Sundar Pichai said on the earnings call today that more than 25% of all new code at Google is now generated by AI.
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At the @givepensions @mkssindia press conference hearing from those declared 'dead' in Rajasthanās pension rolls. Weāre witnessing mass exclusions from social security benefits in the name of digitalisation without state intervention This is the reality of Indiaās āDPIās
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