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.

Large Language Muddle: A litany of some of the darker sides of AI.

Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.: ‘…by refusing to even attempt to regulate social media networks directly, the government has tacitly accepted that police will be left to police unmoderated social networks directly’

King of slop: How anti-migrant AI content made one Sri Lankan influencer rich: He now teaches a course on how to leverage that anti immigrant sentiment in Britain to make huge profits.

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response: The findings of part 2 of the Covid enquiry.

No pasarán: anti-fascist slogan takes on new significance in Ukraine crisis

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage: ‘What stifles effective action is a deadly conjunction: the climate crisis running headlong into the epistemic crisis.’

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds: ‘That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity’

America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani: ‘What these oligarchs spent to stop Mamdani feels like less on an annual basis than he wants them to pay for a better future for all New Yorkers’

A strange brew: the case of the man behind an audacious Scottish tea fraud: Real tea, but not from Scotland.

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported: A disgusting policy idea that seems akin with Reform’s appalling ideas on the subject.

The Majority AI View: Perhaps there’s a silent majority who think that we should just treat it as a “normal technology”?

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says

ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web: Bad UI, doesn’t actually let you see the web, and uses you as a way to snaffle up data it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds: “their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.”

We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation: ‘… a constitution is no guarantee against autocracy…But it makes the would-be despot’s job much harder, and equips us with the tools to push back’

London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why: Thousands of stolen phone shipped abroad for resale with little likelihood of being caught.

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk: More climate change related disasters(plus poor building decisions).

UK charities say toxic immigration rhetoric leading to threats against staff: due to ‘increasingly toxic rhetoric around immigration and race by politicians and extremist activists’.

How A Private Equity Firm Brought About The Death Of British Steel: ‘British Steel has collapsed into insolvency’

Trump sounds the alarm on pain relief drug – and Kennedy’ and Kennedy’s allies look set to profit: A lot of them happen to sell ‘non-medical’ pain relief for profit.

Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning