ABC News: Vicious friends and buried undies win at 2026 Ig Nobel prizes The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded outside the US for the first time in 36 years, in Zurich. One prize went to research on why we want friends who can be vicious on our behalf when it counts. Another was for a precise scientific […]
links: 02.09.2026
SBS News: The ‘harmful’ online rabbit hole finding teens within minutes Australian activist Chanel Contos is telling the National Press Club that major social platforms’ algorithmic feeds expose young people to misogynistic content. Teen boys are shown content that blames women and glorifies male dominance within 25 minutes of signing up, and Contos is calling on the government […]
links: 01.09.2026
Sveriges Radio: TikTok and Meta paid by racist account to promote posts A Sveriges Radio P3 News investigation found that openly Nazi and far-right accounts operate freely on TikTok despite violating both EU law and the platform’s own rules. Reporters found the accounts behind them were able to buy paid ads from both TikTok and Meta. TikTok’s Nordic […]
links: 18.06.2026
Wired: Silicon Valley’s Elite Financial Advisers Say This Era of Wealth Is Different WIRED talks to two wealth advisers serving Silicon Valley’s high-net-worth tech clients about how the new generation of tech millionaires handles its sudden fortune as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic head toward liquidity events. The very scale of wealth has shifted — the average client is […]
links: 16.06.2026
WIRED: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, in an internal memo to staff, admitted the company did an “atrocious” job rolling out its new artificial-intelligence division — after WIRED revealed widespread discontent inside the roughly 6,500-strong “Applied AI” unit (one worker called it “a gulag”). Bosworth promised more stability, […]
links 4: 08.02.2024
The Verge: Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools Meduza: Valery Zaluzhny dismissed. Oleksandr Syrsky becomes the new commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces LRT: More oil spilled from Orlen’s terminal than first reported, some reached Latvia’s waters PBS: PHOTOS: Icelandic volcano begins erupting again, spewing lava and cutting off heat and hot water […]
links 3: 07.02.2024
LRT: Long-lost stained glass masterpiece discovered in Vilnius strip club ERR: State has to write off much of the €100,000 spent on failed Eesti.life website The Verge: The fediverse, explained +972 Magazine: Palestinians abused, forced to chant anti-Hamas slogans in ‘safe corridor’ NPR: Portraits from El Salvador’s nearly 2-year, sprawling crackdown on gang suspects Mexico News Daily: How […]