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Gard Steiro will be the new chief of Schibsted News Media and will simultaneously leave his role as responsible publisher and CEO of VG, where he has been since 2017, to lead the media division in a time of rapid technological change. #Schibsted #GardSteiro #Nyhetsmedia (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized an article in Helsingin Sanomat and said he had made corrections to it. According to him, the nonfiction writer Ari Haasio and Mattila had suggested that Finnish identity was ambiguous, compared the mistrust faced by evacuees from Karelia to current fears directed at Muslims, and stated that everyone was a descendant of immigrants. Mäkäräinen wrote that migration was an old phenomenon, but migrations from different times could not be equated. He noted that the first people arrived in what is now Finland about 11,000 years ago and believed that this did not provide a basis for equating the current migration from Afghanistan or Somalia with the arrivals of earlier traders, craftsmen, or industrial founders. He described Finlayson as an actor that built factories in capital-poor Finland, brought technology, and created jobs. Mäkäräinen compared him to a Mohammed coming from Somalia, who he described as illiterate and dependent on Kela support. He believed these examples illustrated different types of migration and claimed that there were differences in education, employment, cultural distance, and criminality. He also claimed that those coming from Afghanistan were overrepresented in rape statistics. Regarding the evacuees from Karelia, Mäkäräinen wrote that they had come from within Finland, spoke Finnish, and shared key features of Finnish culture. He said they had faced mistrust and derogatory name-calling, but believed they differed from current arrivals from Afghanistan, for example, in terms of adaptation, work ethic, and use of social security. Mäkäräinen also denied the comparison made by Haasio and Mattila between 19th-century antisemitism and the Somali discussions of the 1990s. According to him, the groups were not similar, and Jews had mostly integrated well. He argued that current migrations should be evaluated based on their impacts on employment, crime, and social security. Finally, he wrote that the continuity of society required, in his opinion, the adaptation of newcomers. #maahanmuutto #suomalaisuus #kulttuuri (translated)

According to the author, the tracker found in the car or the spy software installed on the phone did not yet indicate who had installed it. He added that at least in the case of the AirTag, the police received information from Apple about which account the tracker was linked to. https://t.co/cTKtnGxxzS #vainoaminen #vainoaminen #turvallisuus #teknologia #FI (translated)

In the debate article, Daniel Almgren, CEO of Ework Group, argues that Sweden's success in the AI transition depends more on our ability to mobilize and adapt skills than on the technology itself, and that current structures hinder the effective use of the skills we possess. #AI #kompetens #arbetsmarknad (translated)

The Swedish Tax Agency has made an inappropriate choice by using American cloud services for sensitive data, especially considering the uncertain geopolitical situation and the increasingly problematic relations between the USA and Europe. #molntjänster #Skatteverket #teknologi (translated)

The technology giant Google will not face sanctions for the allegedly illegal logging at the data center construction sites in Muhos and Kajaani, says the Minister of Environment and Climate, Sari Multala from the National Coalition Party, to Uutissuomalainen. #Google #datakeskus #ympäristö (translated)

Juha Merentie wrote that AfD no longer demanded the dissolution of the EU, but wanted to reform it into a union of sovereign nations. According to him, the party wanted the EU to focus on the internal market, the protection of external borders, security issues, and selected technological projects, as well as to restore national decision-making power in immigration, social, and financial policies. Merentie concluded by asking what else they could hope for. #EU #politiikka #maahanmuutto (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that he had been calling for a clearer situational picture of Russia's intelligence and influence activities towards Finland for some time. He viewed positively that, according to him, the message from the Security Police and the Defense Forces about the situation was now serious: Russian intelligence operations against Finland had intensified, cyber intelligence was active, and the interest was particularly focused on the defense industry. Vanhanen noted that the chief of the intelligence department of the General Staff had assessed that the intelligence operations targeting society and critical systems could be preparation for sabotage. According to him, Finland could thus become a target of Russian sabotage activities. He also wrote that, according to the Security Police, at least one small Finnish technology company had already been subject to verifiably increased intelligence activities. Vanhanen assessed that Russia aimed to weaken Ukraine's ability to continue the war by also influencing countries, businesses, and supply chains related to Western support. He warned that problems arising for companies supporting Ukraine could raise questions in Finland about the risks of support and serve Russia's objectives. Vanhanen suggested that the security of defense and technology companies should be proactively strengthened. He urged companies to check, among other things, their cybersecurity, the protection of their facilities, approaches to personnel, data access rights, supply chains, and unusual cooperation, recruitment, and investor contacts. He stated that especially small companies should be provided with easily accessible government support for identifying threats and improving security. According to Vanhanen, Russia's goal was to get Western countries to reduce their support for Ukraine. He believed that Finland should respond to possible pressure by better protecting the people and companies enabling support rather than changing its policies. https://t.co/f0INfDq1Zf #Venäjä #Suomi #Kyberturvallisuus (translated)

The author stated that he had spoken on Yle's morning show about Ukraine's new weapon systems and robotization. According to him, humanoid robots would hardly solve the war in Ukraine, but robots and autonomous systems would already be commonplace in the next war. He added that it was easy to laugh at the current clumsy robots. https://t.co/EVRBr71spg #Ukraina #robotit #teknologia #FI #UA (translated)

The iron chancellor praised Grok Bot and mentioned that he had implemented bots in several routine tasks. According to him, they managed the calendar, emails, and Drive, reminded about routines and unpaid bills, and retrieved key codes for the cottage by speaking to the car. The iron chancellor also stated that one bot was leading a project that had three coders. Two of them were, according to him, ordinary Grok discussions, and meetings were held using the agents' own email addresses. He said he accepted the question cards raised by the bots and monitored token usage. Additionally, according to him, his bots were already messaging his friends' bots, and he planned to only give others his agent's address in the future and leave Gmail for campaign messages. #tekoäly #automaatiota #teknologia (translated)

The author reported that David Robinson, the head of OpenAI's security team, resigned the day before due to security risks. On the same day, the White House established what he referred to as the Super Intelligence Force to investigate the security threats of artificial intelligence. The author noted that AI risks had previously been considered hysterical science fiction, but many now seemed to take them seriously. #AI #turvallisuus #teknologia #FI #US (translated)

The author estimates that Ukraine used about 4.5 million drones in 2025 and Russia about 3 million, but the war continued. According to him, the power arose from the joint use of capabilities and the combination of traditional and new abilities, of which Ukraine's Vivaldi operation was an example, according to him. #Ukraina #sota #teknologia #UA #RU (translated)

Jukka Lepikkö wrote that in the top 10 percent of companies using artificial intelligence, the AI costs were $650 per employee, while in the median company, they were $11. According to him, the difference was 59 times greater and the companies' AI expenditures would grow by several multiples over the next 3–5 years. He estimated that the cycle was just beginning. https://t.co/jD3l2B1Ccc #tekoäly #yrittäjyys #teknologia (translated)