In this week's The Game Business Micro, a major retail group has criticized PlayStatipn's plan to kill the disc, and we wrap up the news from Xbox's 1,600 cuts. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/retail-tra...

Elon Musk's family foundation funded far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's recent trip to Russia. Lennon, more commonly known as 'Tommy Robinson', travelled to the country last month with the billionaire's father Errol

The ‘German Driving School’ Telegram chat used coded terms to discuss drugging and raping women

Nigel Farage's spokesman has denied fresh allegations the Reform UK leader may have broken parliamentary rules, after reports the MP failed to declare benefits provided by an ally who was once convicted of fraud in the US.

Today's Sunday Times has a blockbuster read about Nigel Farage's relationship with 'convicted criminal' George Cottrell. The Reform leader's relationship with Cottrell has long been in the public domain, but the insight team has details that shocked even my cynical heart More below 👇👇👇

Run don’t walk to this @nytimes.com article about Polymarket’s 'messy' dispute resolution system

Vandalism, taunts and hijabs torn off: Muslim leaders in UK say hate crime hitting new levels

…and THIS is why you don’t believe them when they tell you to just take their word your rights are going to be protected

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. We should stop lending X any legitimacy and Elon Musk more power by being on that cesspit of a platform.

One of the UK’s most senior police officers says that he understands where the the perception of two -tier policing has come from

The Ukrainian man who set fire to two homes and a car linked to Keir Starmer, and a friend who assisted him, have both been jailed today The fires were commissioned by a Russian Telegram account, but a bizarre conspiracy theory that the culprits were "rent boys" persists inews.co.uk/news/starmer...

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/I’ve often been frustrated by the extent to which western democracies have blamed every divisive online trend on “Russian propaganda”. Often it’s felt like governments were just ignoring the fact that the call was coming from inside the house when it came to things like far-right creators…

After more than eight years, I’ve taken the decision to step down from my role at Bloomberg. I accomplished my exponentially more than I thought I would, but it is the right time for me to do something new (1/?)

Taking an extended break from social media might be great but it is nothing compared to the high you get when ten complete strangers like one of your posts

Thinking about the Russian troll factory who totally failed to have any impact on the election despite producing hundreds of fake news clips about Nikol over the last few years.

Meta’s ideological leanings were always obvious to those of us who closely watched the company, but it is still shocking to hear Clegg so openly admit to what he saw

Four hundred TikTok videos out of 7,600 skincare-related posts analysed by the Guardian featured routines or advice presented by children believed to be under 13

Fraud involving antiques and collectibles have a long history, but I’ve been fascinated by how the internet has supercharged the reach of potential scams

A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank

After appearing to suggest that the war was winding down earlier this week, the US has redeployed the majority of its stealthy long-range missiles for the Iran war (🎁)

Donald Trump has long spoken about his desire for a US version of Israel's golden dome, but there have been very few signs of it actually being real...until now (🎁)

I'm seeing a lot of these fake Donald Trump truths being posted on BlueSky (and lesser sites) at the moment. Its pretty easy to check, and you owe it to yourself and other people before sharing it.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Russia is widely seen to be backing Victor Orban’s reelection efforts, with videos of ethnic Hungarian prisoners of war, with videos of ethnic Hungarian prisoners (🎁) Via @thomas.escritt.eu

Anthropic is challenging the Pentagon's decision to declare it a threat to the US supply chain in court. “We do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court,” Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said in a blog post on Thursday

The Pokemon Company confirmed the long rumoured existence of their next mainline games today. Pokemon Winds and Waves will be released simultaneously in 2027 for the Switch 2 and - as the leaks previously suggested - be set in a tropical world with what looked like underwater environments

Who should I be following in the TCG/TTRPG space on Bluesky? I’m particularly interested in D&D, Magic and Pokemon, but I’ll take any and all recommendations…

Both Polymarket and Kalshi pitch themselves as sources of truth in a time of epistemic uncertainty, but detractors say they are just glorified forms of gambling

My most recent session of arena got a bit out of hand #MTG #magicthegathering

“Despite her residing in the UK, the terms of the order are so broad that they extend to the privacy of her own home, even when speaking to her own family.” Sarah Wynn-Williams’s publisher reflects on Meta’s ongoing attempts to silence the author

White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand recruitment, and advance mass “remigration.” Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi leaders invoking the “Great Replacement” and coordinating across borders.

OpenAI considered referring the 18-year-old behind one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history to the RCMP but ultimately determined that their activity did meet the threshold for alerting law enforcement

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales called Elon Musk’s Grokipedia a “cartoon imitation of an encyclopaedia” during an interview on the sidelines of India’s AI summit

Marco Rubio’s appointment as Trump’s Secretary of State was greeted with skepticism by many in the MAGA movement, but the long time Neocon has emerged as one of Trump’s most powerful advisers

For the first time, the EU is attempting to mitigate social media addiction. Excellent article from Politico👇 "Brussels has told the company to change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems."

European capitals are once again talking about developing their own nuclear weapons. The region has long depended on the US for its deterrent, but it is now facing the prospect being left alone with Russia’s nuclear arsenal

Interesting contrast in coverage: a misleading, vested-interest report suggesting heat pumps raise UK bills made headlines. Our peer-reviewed UK research showing high real-world efficiency across hundreds of homes was largely ignored by the media. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foreign companies that run data centres in India will be exempt from taxes on overseas services until 2047

Bitcoin hasn’t had the best start to 2025. After failing to respond to the economic turbulence of January, the digital currency fell below $80,000 on Saturday