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New Mexico Called It Deception While Britain Shrugged

Almost a decade after a personality quiz vacuumed up you and everyone you knew, a New Mexico jury has done what no other state stuck around to do. The panel found Facebook "liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the social media platform". That alone would be news, but what got me is the loneliness of it: nearly a decade on, New Mexico alone put the Cambridge Analytica claim to a jury. I have watched this industry run the same play for years, promise control on the settings page while the API…

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Tech Briefing — Sunday, September 27 2026

Trump and Xi's summit ends without any AI breakthrough, Oxford opens the Bodleian to OpenAI, and Victoria slams the brakes on its datacentre boom. Meanwhile OpenAI readies a $500/month ChatGPT tier, a jury finds Facebook liable in the Cambridge Analytica case, and Terry Tao argues we'll need a lot more mathematicians.

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  • 🔒 Security 1
  • 🌐 Notable 2
  • 🌍 World and Australia 6
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Wallpaper — 2026-09-27

Inspiration Oxford opening the Bodleian so OpenAI may train on its manuscripts.

Prompt by x-ai/grok-4.7

Image model bytedance-seed/seedream-5-0-pro

Medieval illuminated manuscript miniature depicting a vertical stack of open codices on a carved oak lectern, pages showing only blank ruled parchment and interlaced vine geometry, never script. An ornamental gold-leaf frame of acanthus and roundels encloses the scene, with a loose quire tumbling down the lower margin as if the library were being emptied. Flattened symbolic space, no depth perspective; even frontal light that makes burnished gold bosses gleam against foxed parchment, ultramarine recesses, and vermilion book clasps. 9:16 portrait phone wallpaper.

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