The lawsuit concerned allegations that Meta covered up its platforms’ impact on children's mental health and its knowledge of child exploitation online.

"The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it."  www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Millions of people are expected to protest the Trump administration at more than 3,000 No Kings events in cities and small towns across the country on Saturday

The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation that rolls back protections or regulations for workers under the age of 18.

Even seemingly unconnected federal workforce cuts may have a major impact on the war in Iran and the future of conflict management—from diplomatic infrastructure to Voice of America, the government-funded outlet crucial to broadcasting in foreign countries. trib.al/bdQtl0Y

La gallega Consuelo Castaño fue apresada en Argentina junto a su marido, Regino Adolfo González. Nunca lo volvió a ver. Su nombre es uno de los 307 que, 50 años después, aparecen en la lista de víctimas españolas de la dictadura argentina

Tehran’s toxic cloud: satellite images show oily fires burned for days

Los españoles, más preocupados que nunca por la calidad del empleo: cómo explicar esta tendencia con un paro por los suelos y en plena subida del SMI ✍️Por Víctor López

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

When I disabled all the notifications on my smart phone, I felt such an enormous sense of relief. It took me a while to figure out why. It was because I wasn't being constantly interrupted New psychology research reveals the cognitive cost of smartphone notifications www.psypost.org/new-psycholo...

Things connected to the Internet stop working when their servers stop working, Part #132234 in a series of ∞.

A torrent of disinformation about the war in Iran is spreading across social media, fuelled by AI-generated deepfakes depicting fabricated missile strikes on Tel Aviv, US bases in Riyadh, and buildings in Bahrain. Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman reports. x.com/i/status/203...

Nuestras jóvenes Lisístratas elpais.com/opinion/2026... vía @el_pais

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Resignation letter to Trump from the director of the National Counterterrorism Center:

Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

La IA acaba con el anonimato en redes: así de fácil es desenmascarar cuentas con seudónimo elpais.com/tecnologia/2... vía @el_pais

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Iran war sent oil futures surging to historic gains this week, while stocks fell sharply in a worldwide selloff. Read more: https://cnn.it/4lhS6QS

Weather forecasters were warning residents across a large section of the Central U.S. on Friday that one of the first big storm systems of the spring season could deliver anything from damaging winds and large hail to tornadoes and heavy downpours.

New: The White House is transforming the Iran strikes into a meme war. An "aesthetic of bloodlust" that gives Americans the empathy-free, Hollywood, video-game version of deadly combat www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

While women in Iran still have to deal with patriarchal laws under a theocratic government that human rights groups have criticized, Iran isn’t such a backwater that it’s preferable for women and young girls to be dead. trib.al/Ol0MFbk

Why platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket want so badly to be seen as sources of news, instead of anything-goes casinos.

"This is a war without a plan, without a strategy, and without any clear understanding of where it leads or how it ends," writes @rbreich.bsky.social.

Se puede decir más alto, pero no más claro: "Destruir la democracia o enriquecerse a sí mismo: los motivos de Trump para atacar a Irán" elpais.com/ideas/2026-0...

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Meta’s AI facial recognition smart glasses plan ‘will put women at risk’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022)

Acting ethically in an imperfect world. About using LLMs. tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...

Four years of war: On the ground in Ukraine reut.rs/4c2QR5z

The three major indexes all rose shortly after the decision.

Excruciating tropical disease can now be transmitted in most of Europe, study finds. ‘Shocking’ data shows the climate crisis and invasive mosquitos mean chikungunya could spread in 29 countries www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As federal immigration agents surge into communities and detain people, the number of habeas petitions — claims challenging those detentions — has increased. We are tracking the historic rise in these cases, which are overwhelming the court system ⤵️

Ukrainian civilian casualties surged by 26% in 2025, say researchers

Investigadores de la Universidad de Nuevo México detectan microplásticos en 52 cerebros humanos, con hasta 5 veces más acumulación en pacientes con demencia. ecoinventos.com/investigador...

We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Study of 8M biomed &life science articles finds those led by women spent 7-15 days longer in review than those led by men. Over a career, women's papers could spend 350-750 additional days in review. Delays could slow promotion, esp to full professor. www.the-scientist.com/women-s-rese...

The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ

El servicio fiscal de EEUU puso al descubierto información confidencial de miles de migrantes

“The dissent I’ve seen is like a whisper. It’s a fear-based culture right now.” Across the industry, workers describe a ‘fear-based culture’ and pressure to ‘fall in line.‘ Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: buff.ly/NArp66x

SCOOP: Tensions at Palantir have grown in recent weeks over the company's work with ICE. On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE. www.wired.com/story/palant...

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

"Abandoned FADs pose numerous problems. They shed plastic as they break down, damage coral reefs and collide with artisanal fishing boats...scientists routinely find sharks, turtles, sea lions, seabirds and other wildlife entangled in the netting " news.mongabay.com/2026/02/aban...

According to recently released documents, the convicted sex offender had a vast network of people working to whitewash his digital presence.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Human-rights issues typified by cases like Jimmy Lai’s “aren’t distractions from more important business,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “They are the business.”

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “It’s easy to stick by your values when times are good. Guardrails are necessary only when something is slamming against them,” our columnist Carlos Lozada writes about the cuts at The Washington Post, where he worked for 17 years.