Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute Reverberates in European Capitals: ‘It puts a very stark light on technological dependency and the need for some form of sovereignty, autonomy and control in Europe’.

Oil company shares soar to all-time highs as Middle East war turbocharges price per barrel

Little liars: babies younger than one practise deceit, study suggests

Vulnerable women in England still being arrested over suspected illegal abortions

What do coders do after AI?: Somewhat depends on whether you like coding as a craft in itself or endure it as a means to an end.

New Employment Rights Act ‘a huge boost for women in the workplace’: A rare bright spot in the smorgasbord of disappointment from the UK’s Labour government.

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns: ‘The first UK Food Security Report in December 2021 found the country was 54% food self-sufficient’

Accenture ‘links staff promotions to use of AI tools’

The left is missing out on AI: ‘…ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right.’

In 1984, An Unemployed Ice Cream Truck Driver Memorized A Game Show’s Secret Winning Formula. He Then Went On The Show: …and became rich, for a while.

Where are all the ‘Don’t tread on me’ Americans?: ‘If you oppose tyranny, the people of Minneapolis are your brothers and sisters in arms, regardless of what you think about immigration.’

Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core: ‘Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases’

Stop generating, start thinking: Arguments against letting Claude Code et al just blindly do your whole job for you.

Write about the future you want: “If complaining worked, we would have won the culture war already.”

The enshittification of American hegemony: Countries as platforms.

U.S Proxy Warfare: Patterns in Middle Eastern Conflicts

Only the Metrics Care: ‘The user isn’t the customer. And they’re not the product either. The real product is behavioral optimization–metrics on a dashboard’

The Who Cares Era: ‘…where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.’

Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns: ‘Smartwatches, Oura rings, smart home devices and Fitbits being weaponised’

How liberals lost the internet: ‘cutting-edge propagandists now focus less on policy messaging and more on massaging vibes.’

Phantom Obligation: ‘The guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do.’, and how software design can exacerbate it.

When Online Content Disappears: On link-rot - ‘A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible’

The Observer view: Britain cannot afford Reform: ‘They offer not just a toxic nostalgia, but an uneconomic one; they promise a return to a better yesterday, but serve up an unaffordable tomorrow.’

Okay, so age verification is pretty painless. It’s still not a good thing. At all.: ‘It doesn’t work. It’s intrusive. It creates new vulnerabilities.’

Why RSS matters: RSS has always seemed like one of the increasingly few unconditionally good aspects of the internet to me.