TikTok ban: App shuts down in the United States hours ahead of a ban: Whether the ban will last is a different story.

People Left Twitter Because Twitter’s Product Sucks, Not Because of Purity Politics: Hard to know how much of the decline is ethical concerns vs it’s simply not a very good experience for many people.

Call to overhaul obesity diagnoses amid fears of over-reliance on BMI: ‘…there are fears BMI on its own is not a “reliable measure” of an individual’s health and may be resulting in both under- and over-diagnosis of obesity….’

Lawsuit: Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to quietly track driving behavior: Allstate taken to court for covertly using data from apps to track drivers and adjust or cancel their car insurance.

Nowhere to retvrn: how far-right revisionism spreads online: You can’t ‘return’ to something if it never existed in the first place.

Meta surrenders to the right on speech: A good summary of Zuckerberg’s awful announcement about the future of moderation at Meta.

A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media: Looks like I’m not the only person kinda terrified about Zuckerberg’s latest pronouncement.

Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture: The Department of Government Efficiency is clearly going to be nothing to do with government efficiency.

Ambulance handover delays in England may harm 1,000 patients a day: This is happening more and more due to hospitals having insufficient capacity to take in the patients concerned.

DDoS’ing Yourself with To-dos and Reminders: It me.

Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South: Due to new state-level age verification laws.

Meet Gem the cocker spaniel – the face of UK pet cloning: It’s illegal to clone animals for commercial purposes in the UK, but companies are working around this by sending samples of rich people’s pets overseas.

Alcohol should carry warning label for cancer risk, US surgeon general says

Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too): Modern web browsers are powerful and capable.

“Efficientize” is not a real word but even so: never ever efficientize the things you like doing

The beautiful sentence that is the web: ‘In web development, HTML is the noun, CSS is the adjective that describes the noun, and JavaScript is the verb that makes it do something.’

World endures ‘decade of deadly heat’ as 2024 caps hottest years on record: ‘The top 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last 10 years’.

Quitting social media gave me a new creed: only disconnect: ‘…our virtual selves are not our inner selves, but behaviours drawn out from us by the social media platforms’.

Is Immersion the Best Way to Learn a Language?: It’s helpful, but only if you proactively engage with it.

2024’s most costly climate disasters killed 2,000 people and caused $229bn in damages, data shows

Scientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostly: How much did Prof Archibald Montgomery Low get right?

Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates: Apparently it’s easier to rewrite science that get Excel to stop auto-converting “MARCH1” into a date.

Scrabble, Anonymous: The life of a Scrabble addict.

I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital: I’m too clutter-phobic to indulge in much physical media, but its hard to deny you tend to get a higher quality and less annoying experience if you do.

Revealed: 1.5m children in England studying in unfit school buildings: Years of insufficient budgets mean that buildings used for services like education, health and justice in the UK are literally crumbling.