Eons: Life and Death on Pangea is a new six episode series from the team at @pbseons.bsky.social, and you can watch the first two episodes right now at PBS.org/eons, or in the free PBS app!
The Myth of SpaceX ▶ The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic | Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The world’s first trillionaire is a killer ▶ Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering | The Verge www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...
Silicon Valley's Billion Dollar Design Scams | Design Theory youtu.be/hDvAQf1cnr8
Silicon Valley's Billion Dollar Design Scams
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"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich." Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy
Treason in the Futures Markets ▶ People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets | Paul Krugman paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...
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Oddly, this video was put on 24hr review by YouTube. First time I’ve seen that but it’s def not appearing on feeds, not even my personal one which I use to test. So I’d appreciate if you watched shared and liked! youtu.be/KRzlPZ--vb0?...
ICE Retreats: The Battle for Minneapolis is Over?? - News Dump
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What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier ▶ Agents’ technical underpinnings create the potential for breaches that expose the entire mosaic of your life | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/28/1...
Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds ▶ Researchers say event described as ‘major tipping point’ for clean energy in era of destabilised politics | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards ▶ X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? | The Verge www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
‘We have a new role’: mayors across the world increasingly taking on society’s biggest challenges ▶ From Budapest to BCN, NY to Paris, mayors are increasingly being thrust on to the political frontlines as they face down the rise of the far right | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Chipwrecked ▶ Nvidia has built an empire on circular deals for chips. Can anything knock it down? | The Verge www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Chipwrecked: Can Nvidia avoid the crash?
What happens if the GPU-backed loans go south?
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Billionaires want data centers everywhere, including space ▶ Astronomers and environmental scientists are skeptical | The Verge www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Demand-driven inflation vs tariffs-fueled inflation, by Justin Wolfers, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan | The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway youtu.be/xA9nRaI71dw?...
The Biggest Disruption Is Yet to Come — ft. Justin Wolfers
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How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet ▶ And why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/10/1...
The war on disinformation is a losing battle ▶ How the systems that fight misinformation and disinformation became misconstrued and dismantled | The Verge www.theverge.com/features/839...
The disinformation wars are here
How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
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"Elon’s entire incoherent free speech framework collapses into a single coherent principle: speech I like is protected, speech I don’t like should be punished. This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."
Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We’ve spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate…
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Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the DSA. We're holding X accountable for: 🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ 🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository 🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers link.europa.eu/bcmC87
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right ▶ Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’ | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right
Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’
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Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up to the sky and ask the sky and ask the sky Don't fall on me
If you wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make the change You gotta get it right while you got the time 'Cause when you close your heart Then you close your mind
Large language mistake ▶ Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it | The Verge www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Microsoft tries to head off the “novel security risks” of Windows 11 AI agents ▶ Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes ▶ Anthropic finds some LLM “self-awareness,” but “failures of introspection remain the norm.” | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/l...
I tried OpenAI’s new Atlas browser but I still don’t know what it’s for ▶ My impression is that it is little more than cynicism masquerading as software | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/27/1...
NEW: an a16z-backed startup called Doublespeed promises clients can “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” Essentially an AI-powered bot service in violation of all major social media platforms www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
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