📰 Albania will soon be the first country to have an AI chatbot as a virtual minister, in an effort to clamp down on corruption by turning to an unbribable digital official

📰 🚨 🇪🇺EU Countries Chat Control Vote As of September 12, 2025, the European Union Council meeting concluded with fifteen member states publicly supporting the Danish compromise proposal, which includes mandatory client-side scanning of encrypted messages to detect child sexual abuse material Four countries—Estonia, Greece, Romania, and Slovenia—remain undecided, making their final positions pivotal for the outcome **Countries in Favor of Chat Control:** * Bulgaria * Croatia * Cyprus * Denmark * France * Hungary * Ireland * Italy * Latvia * Lithuania * Malta * Portugal * Slovakia * Spain * Sweden **Countries Opposing Chat Control:** * Austria * Belgium * Czech Republic * Finland * Germany * Luxembourg * Netherlands * Poland The final vote by the European Council is scheduled for October 14, 2025, with the outcome dependent on the positions of the four undecided states. Unreal that despite all cryptografy experts reports explaining the inefficacy of the proposed surveillance and the importance of E2E encryption for privacy as a human right, we still have so many countries in the EU pedaling this using child abuse as a excuse while doing very little to tackle the root problem itself with UN based recommendations.

📰 Microsoft on Tuesday addressed a set of 80 security flaws in its software, including one vulnerability that has been disclosed as publicly known at the time of release. Of the 80 vulnerabilities, eight are rated Critical and 72 are rated Important in severity. None of the shortcomings has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. Time to run updates for those using Microsoft, delaying is unadvised...

📰 NEW - Nepal's Prime Minister resigns and flees, as protesters burn down his house and chase finance minister through the streets. Nepal’s government lifts social media ban after violent protests erupted over the restriction, leaving 19 dead and 145 injured. Protesters, mostly Gen Z, clashed with police near Parliament, prompting army deployment and a curfew. Gen Z in Nepal seems to have their priorities quite clear, banning social networks is a red line and they will die defending their right to keep using then 🤔

Reading about stable coins with my thinking hat on ended up with few notes taken and observations: 1. Stablecoin issuers buy US debt via Treasury Bonds, pegging them to the US dollar. 2. Foreign Crypto Exchanges will buy them and add liquidity to their systems, centralized or decentralized making the stablecoin issuers a potential top 10 US debt holders. 3. US stablecoins could bypass banks in big emerging markets, this undercuts local currencies and boost dollar dominance. This seems a logical and obvious plan. Question is: Will foreign countries deploy counter measures? Like:: - Banning US stable coins - Creating their own stable coins - Updating regulation Seems only logical, more over when the play is so obvious... Of course USA current administration could send some destroyers and accuse the dearing banning county of narco-terrorism or any other non sense, since apparently, inventing narratives out of the blue with no intelligence reports going back years to back it up is a new norm ... What a chaotic time to be alive... #stablecoins #USDT #USDC #DAI

📰 US President Donald Trump has threatened the EU with a probe that could lead to higher tariffs after the bloc fined Google for violating antitrust laws.

Interesting development, self custody is growing among companies, not only adoption • 74% rely on custodians • 18% use a mix • 7.6% are fully self sovereign It seems the "not your keys, not your coins" slogan has an impact and is expanding. Good riddance #Bitcoin #selfcustody

We need to create more adoption, marketing matters, mouth to mouth will get us not far... The alternatives to Nostr are a joke in comparison and that includes the ones that call themselves "decentralized" and "censorship resistant"... Nostr wins, fair and square, problem is... We have a label, "it is a Bitcoin echo chamber", which is partially true, for any community can come and make their own tribe and flourish.

📰 The US president pledged to dismantle the country’s international propaganda network And just like that the world is learning the leader role of USA as a propaganda machine with impact worldwide pushing their ideology and agendas at the tune of US dollars... Yes, many of those programs are helpful but not free to the receiver, bending the knee is a requirement for the government or it's opposition of US does not has the control of the government... Art by Ukrainian women and LGBT organizations in the Balkans are among a series of projects funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) targeted for cancelation by the administration of US President Donald Trump, the New York Post has reported. A White House request to US lawmakers to rescind unwanted spending includes $3.2 billion allocated to USAID, which the administration has pledged to dismantle. The programs to be axed include $1.5 million to promote the artwork of Ukrainian women, $3.9 million to support LGBT communities in the western Balkans, and $24.6 million for “climate resilience” in Honduras, according to the report.

📰 Larry Sanger, ex-founder of Wikipedia, says the online encyclopedia is a "veritable engine of defamation". The best part, Larry proposed law changes to hold the biased platform accountable.

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On the cybersecurity subcommittee's Wikipedia investigation

Congress is now investigating Wikipedia. More precisely, according to a letter dated August 27, 2025 and sent by Rep James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. N...

### Effects of LLM on the labor market Study made by Stanford University shows six key findings on the early labor market effects of generative AI, using high-frequency payroll data from ADP. They show that since late 2022, coinciding with the widespread adoption of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, employment for early career workers (ages 22–25) in highly AI exposed occupations (e.g., software development, customer service) has declined significantly. Employment for older workers in the same roles and workers in less exposed fields has remained stable or grown. The declines are concentrated in roles where AI is used to automate (rather than augment) tasks, are robust to firm level shocks and remote work considerations, and are more evident in employment numbers than in compensation levels. Here is a summary table: | Statistic / Finding | Value / Description | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | **Relative employment decline** for early-career workers (22–25) in high AI-exposure jobs | 13% (after controlling for firm-level shocks) | | **Overall employment growth** for young workers (22–25) in high-exposure occupations | –6% (from late 2022 to July 2025) | | **Employment growth** for older workers (35–49) in high-exposure occupations | +9% (same period) | | **Adoption of generative AI** among U.S. workers (age 18+) by mid-2025 | 46% | | **Sample size** (monthly payroll records in main analysis) | 3.5–5 million workers | | **Key exposed occupations** | Software developers, customer service representatives, accountants, administrative assistants | | **Key less-exposed occupations** | Nursing aides, maintenance workers, freight movers, home health aides | | **Primary data source** | ADP payroll records (largest U.S. payroll provider) | | **AI exposure metrics used** | Eloundou et al. (2024) GPT-4 β; Handa et al. (2025) Anthropic Economic Index (automation vs. augmentation) | source: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Canaries_BrynjolfssonChandarChen.pdf