People aren’t just complaining about Google's AI search overhaul, they’re leaving. Yesterday alone, our week over week installs surged 30% in the U.S. 🚀 Momentum is growing. It’s time to Fire Google.

South Korea has announced plans to develop nuclear-powered attack submarines with the first vessel scheduled to launch in the mid-2030s.

I have found the ultimate CNBC headline, there will never be a headline more CNBC than this

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

The avoidance of a jet fuel crisis in Britain that was being predicted barely 2 months ago is quite extraordinary. Seems we've switched to Nigeria and the US as suppliers, pushed through emergency regulatory changes, and refocused domestic refineries.

It hasn't happened yet, but new results from Google Quantum AI and the atom computing start-up Oratomic suggest that elliptic curve cryptography and RSA could be under threat from #quantum computers sooner than many scientists predicted. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-findin...

Fascinating to try and work out just what on earth Pinsent Masons were trying to do here. It was a routine application which they must have done thousands of times before. What value could an LLM provide? They had the boilerplate text, they had someone to update it. Bish bash bosh.

When did 40,000 words become long? It’s like 1/10 of Don Quixote

“.. Memorial Day sunset over New York City as seen from Pebble Beach in Brooklyn Bridge Park.” (via Noel Calingasan) #NYC

Some Rejoiners seem very keen to run onto a Stay-Out-campaign punch/knock-out blow. There is a vast amount of work to be done first that hasn't even started. Free movement is a huge one by itself. bsky.app/profile/rola...

I’d never thought of this before but I’d now heartily recommend people do this to avoid a UK heatwave. Just saw Project Hail Mary in a near empty cinema. Wonderfully cool and an absolutely delightful film.

One of the last of the pantheon of true giants has left us. A great originator. You do not learn jazz without learning Sonny Rollins. We’re lucky that we had him for so long, but the loss feels tremendous.

One of the consequences of richer countries sustaining their own demand for fuel by introducing general subsidies. Countries that can't afford to do this lose out in the global auction.

Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.

Other than that, how was the play Mrs Lincoln? www.ft.com/content/f471...

Changing my home insurance just before we move: Agent: "Do you know roughly when it was built?" Me: "Just give me a minute to look at its listing on English Heritage..." Agent: "Oh, is it listed?" Me: "Grade II*. Oh here we are, it was built in 1461."

We're just ordinary men, innocent men www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Spent a productive couple of days rearranging my Stocks and Shares ISA portfolio into thematic pies in Trading 212. Researched each of the sectors, moved relevant stocks I already owned into the right pies, and decided which other stocks to hold in them. Rebalancing's primed for tomorrow.

It is, of course, a truth universally acknowledged that a northern mayor who finds himself in possession of a good majority must be in want of an election.

"can you get my opponent in Makersfield to tweet he wants to "smell and lick" Carole Vorderman's bum?" "strange first request, but as you desire my new northern master" "nice one, and get us a pint of gravy 'n all"

Kruger: "A society aligned more closely with the teachings of Jesus would be a happier one."

I know that the average newspaper reader tends to be fairly older than average but this is a reference to a sitcom that aired fifty-one years ago.

Pretty sure this is just the final boss battle of a ttrpg just seen from very far away.

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

he's going to be great

1913 Art Nouveau painting "Slim Woman with a Cat" by Hungarian artist Géza Faragó.

Goodness. The Gooners are now analysing their season in detail and coming to the conclusion that they were nearly perfect and certainly paragons of 'vartue'. I mean - well done and all that people - but... A bit de trop in a public forum, init?

i remember this came up when LINCOLN was released and there’s the opening sequence in which black soldiers quote it back to him. some people thought that this was implausible; historians explained that it was actually quite likely that many black soldiers had read the address and some memorized it

the pope is foucauldian. i repeat. the pope is foucauldian.

Quite funny The electorate was wrong.

Keep posting this one, I think.

A men's slouch pouch onesie. Did I hear that right?

How on earth do you give West Ham a performance-related rent deal which drops when they underperform?

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Conservatives on 2% is an absolutely incredible bit, but tbh Restore on 7% is either "poll smells off" or "a substantive section of the population is outright whites-only"

Three of the current top ten singles (the country's most listened-to songs, in effect) are by Drake and another three are by Michael Jackson Gary Glitter probably fancies his chances of a comeback at this rate

It is curious that the government spoke up an imaginary fiscal saving of £10 billion from the settlement changes. (There may be a saving of 5% of that, or no net saving at all). But has ignored that its net migration changes are set to have an actual £13-19 billion fiscal price-tag

Palantir may well be one of the most 'political' companies on Earth. Constant lobbying and controlling commentary. And they are (kindly) hard right. And with no sense of irony about being led in the UK by the English equivalent of Quisling's or Pavelić's grandson. Sins of the grandfather.

In flag news, I am disappointed to find that on closer inspection, the recently-appeared standards of Jamaica and Vietnam in a local retail car park signal two separate but neighbouring street food outlets, not an outlet for perhaps the world’s most unlikely fusion cuisine.

France rolls out €1 student meals – but what’s on the menu?

Imagine having an invincible season and not even qualifying for Champions League!

this, basically. his entire career it's been his way or the highway.

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I'm obviously being silly. But not as silly as the Conservative MP who was on BBC Breakfast earlier in the week arguing that Andy Burnham was already adding billions to the UK's interest bill.

One of my favourite paintings is Gustave Moreau's 'Helen at the Scaean Gate', in which her face is completely featureless. And that's the *point* - Helen is the great beauty of the world. Whatever that means to the beholder.

THIS so much. I’ve seen a growth in narcissism dressed up as self confidence in the past 20 years. Too many people treat humility as weakness. It’s not. It’s having grace in a world that’s increasingly self-involved.

Liberal England: Alexander McCall Smith on publishing novels in serial form "When the serial started to run, I had a number of sections already completed. As the months went by, however, I had fewer and fewer pages in hand, and towards the end I was only three episodes ahead of publication."

Liberal England: Liz Crowther played Lucy in a 1967 adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Liz Crowther, who played Sonia the Radio West receptionist in Shoestring, trained as a dancer when she was a girl and has long been a highly regarded stage actress.

"Europe's biggest enemy is not 🇪🇺 bureaucracy, we can deal with bureaucracy. Our biggest problem is too much national interest" says Kajsa Ollongren from the EU's foreign policy department EEAS at #GlobSec2026. Lack of unity and short-term thinking is what's holding Europe back.

HEY YOU do you care about gilts? are you a politician who pretends to understand gilts but accidentally ends up saying stupid things about them? well do I have the webinar for you: niesr.ac.uk/event/why-ar...