Can you trust the numbers? New post + full @royalstatsoc William Guy Lecture on statistics, misinformation and the information ecosystem. Trustworthy information is infrastructure. Maintaining it is stewardship: proftomcrick.com/2026/09/13/…

.@NPL's call for evidence on AI testing and assurance closes 9 Oct 2026. If you use or assess AI, what can’t you test or verify? Practical examples can help shape better methods. My post: proftomcrick.com/2026/09/18/…

Happy 60th birthday today to @computerweekly - the world's first weekly technology newspaper, launched on this day in 1966. Here's a look back at that first ever issue... piped.video/watch?v=_jvpBD2r…

After reading a 2024 blog post from @BristolUni colleague @BristOliver, max-flow/min-cut is a neat lens for thinking about complex socio-technical systems — and prompted some reflections of my own on where the critical constraints in a system actually sit: proftomcrick.com/2026/09/17/…

#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1954, the first successful FORTRAN program was executed. Developed at IBM by a team led by ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate John Backus, FORTRAN was designed to make programming scientific and engineering problems easier by allowing programmers to use mathematical formulas instead of writing everything in machine or assembly language. FORTRAN went on to become a foundational language for scientific and engineering computing, and it is still used today, including in high-performance computing. More #OTD here: buff.ly/yg2MIlN

Voting closes on Monday 21st for this year's most influential woman in UK technology - this is your last weekend to submit your vote...! computerweekly.com/news/3666…

Can you trust the numbers? New post + full @royalstatsoc William Guy Lecture on statistics, misinformation and the information ecosystem. Trustworthy information is infrastructure. Maintaining it is stewardship: proftomcrick.com/2026/09/13/…

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Our latest research reveals shifts in how people discover and consume news. 🔹 1 in 5 UK adults now use AI tools for news 🔹 73% access news through online intermediaries such as social media 🔹 Broadcasters remain a key source of online news. 🔗 ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-a…

Happy Birthday, ACM! Today, our organization turns 79 years old. #OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1947, a group of computing pioneers came together to establish the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Led by Edmund C. Berkeley, the group set out to support a new world shaped by computers. ACM was created to foster the development of computing and support the professionals and academics advancing this emerging field. Today, it has grown into a global community helping shape the future of computing. What would our founders think of today’s advances? Discover more #OTD in #ComputingHistory: buff.ly/yg2MIlN

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24 Fields Medal winners have written a letter of objection economist.com/science-and-te…

New post: WarGames (1983) as a way into questions about AI, automation, human oversight and the limits of delegation. The issue is not only what systems can do, but what authority we give them: proftomcrick.com/2026/08/26/…

My @RoyalStatSoc William Guy Lecture 26/27: "Can you trust the numbers? Statistics, misinformation and the information ecosystem" piped.video/watch?v=7NFE843k…

Over 70 years ago today, the term “artificial intelligence” was coined in a conference proposal: stanford.io/2WJJJGN

🧵 BBC Verify spent this week investigating the floods that devastated the Nepal-Tibet border. We verified more than 30 videos, used satellite imagery and CCTV to trace the path of the floodwaters, and investigated what caused it Here’s some of our work from the past few days:

til that nearly half of Anguilla's government revenue now comes from .ai domain registrations ($85M in 2025), which has been enough to fund road development, better healthcare, and a sales tax cut from 13% to 9%. every founder with a failed startup is doing foreign aid.