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: 29.07.2026
Axios: Anthropic’s lonely island Axios writes that Anthropic, guided by its company values and principles, has become something of a rare bird. It was the only major AI lab not to sign the Nvidia-led letter against restricting open-weight models, the Pentagon blacklisted it in February, and this summer export controls forced its newest models offline for almost three […]
links: 27.07.2026
Le Monde: Searching for Ingmar Bergman’s soul on Sweden’s Fårö island Le Monde writes about Fårö, the Baltic island where Ingmar Bergman shot six of his films and spent the last years of his life. On his 60th birthday he gathered all nine of his children there for the first time; most of them did not share a […]
links: 22.06.2026
The New York Times: The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week Researchers at the Wharton School spent six years finding that the only personality trait that consistently predicts a leader’s objection to remote and hybrid work isn’t distrust of employees or a love of being around people — it’s narcissism. […]
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: 12.06.2026
WIRED: You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO As part of SpaceX’s IPO the company set aside an unusually large share of stock for retail investors, but experts warn the big gains stay with existing shareholders — employees, institutional funds and Elon Musk. Even if you manage to buy a few shares at $135, the average […]
links 1: 05.02.2024
Politico: Hungary’s ruling party balks at Swedish NATO vote Buenos Aires Times: Fire destroys more than 3,000 hectares of native forest in Patagonia DW News: Germany’s trade unions: What’s behind the wave of strikes? Al Jazeera: Fire Beneath Her: Battling wildfires in Indonesian Borneo CBC: In the line of fire: In Gaza, anyone can wind up a ‘human […]