Silicon Valley's Billion Dollar Design Scams | Design Theory youtu.be/hDvAQf1cnr8

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich." Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

Treason in the Futures Markets ▶ People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets | Paul Krugman paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Oddly, this video was put on 24hr review by YouTube. First time I’ve seen that but it’s def not appearing on feeds, not even my personal one which I use to test. So I’d appreciate if you watched shared and liked! youtu.be/KRzlPZ--vb0?...

What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier ▶ Agents’ technical underpinnings create the potential for breaches that expose the entire mosaic of your life | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/28/1...

Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds ▶ Researchers say event described as ‘major tipping point’ for clean energy in era of destabilised politics | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards ▶ X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? | The Verge www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

‘We have a new role’: mayors across the world increasingly taking on society’s biggest challenges ▶ From Budapest to BCN, NY to Paris, mayors are increasingly being thrust on to the political frontlines as they face down the rise of the far right | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Chipwrecked ▶ Nvidia has built an empire on circular deals for chips. Can anything knock it down? | The Verge www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Billionaires want data centers everywhere, including space ▶ Astronomers and environmental scientists are skeptical | The Verge www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Demand-driven inflation vs tariffs-fueled inflation, by Justin Wolfers, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan | The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway youtu.be/xA9nRaI71dw?...

How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet ▶ And why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/10/1...

The war on disinformation is a losing battle ▶ How the systems that fight misinformation and disinformation became misconstrued and dismantled | The Verge www.theverge.com/features/839...

"Elon’s entire incoherent free speech framework collapses into a single coherent principle: speech I like is protected, speech I don’t like should be punished. This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."

Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the DSA. We're holding X accountable for: 🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ 🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository 🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers link.europa.eu/bcmC87

‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right ▶ Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’ | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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If you wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make the change You gotta get it right while you got the time 'Cause when you close your heart Then you close your mind

Large language mistake ▶ Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it | The Verge www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Microsoft tries to head off the “novel security risks” of Windows 11 AI agents ▶ Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes ▶ Anthropic finds some LLM “self-awareness,” but “failures of introspection remain the norm.” | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/l...

I tried OpenAI’s new Atlas browser but I still don’t know what it’s for ▶ My impression is that it is little more than cynicism masquerading as software | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/27/1...

NEW: an a16z-backed startup called Doublespeed promises clients can “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” Essentially an AI-powered bot service in violation of all major social media platforms www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data ▶ With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data sent by satellites unencrypted | Wired www.wired.com/story/satell...

Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement ▶ New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/security/202...

The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it ▶ The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Els veïns dels eixos verds de l’Eixample es planten i critiquen la gestió de la càrrega i descàrrega ▶ A més, reivindiquen que es mantingui tota la vegetació que es va plantejar des d'un inici en aquests carrers pacificats | Betevé beteve.cat/societat/que...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time ▶ Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Europa premia los ejes verdes de Barcelona y el ayuntamiento guarda silencio | El Periódico #superilla @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social www.elperiodico.com/es/barcelona... prizes.new-european-bauhaus.europa.eu/winners-prizes

El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona respetará los parterres plantados por los vecinos de la Esquerra de l'Eixample | El Periódico www.elperiodico.com/es/barcelona... #superilla

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus ▶ The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters + the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped | 404 Media www.404media.co/openais-sora...

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day ▶ Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023 | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scientists make embryos from human skin DNA for first time ▶ The technique could overcome infertility due to old age or disease by using almost any cell in the body as the starting point for life | BBC News www.bbc.com/news/article...

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable ▶ AI slop is taking over workplaces | 404 Media www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

Trump is waging culture war on Europe by promoting rightwing allies, report finds ▶ Study says US president seeks to interfere in elections and ‘move the ideological centre of gravity’ in European politics | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

'Enough is enough' by Chumbawamba & Credit To The Nation, from the 1994 album 'Anarchy' www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0R...

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes ▶ LinkedIn has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession | 404 Media www.404media.co/the-software...

When surgical tools don’t fit: how gender bias in design puts female surgeons at risk ▶ Built for men, used by everyone | The Conversation theconversation.com/when-surgica...

Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World ▶ Geedge Networks, a company w ties 2 the founder of China’s mass censorship infra, is selling its censorship & surveillance systems to ≥ 4 other countries in Asia and Africa | Wired www.wired.com/story/geedge...

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Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult” | ▶ Meta allegedly prioritized user growth over security, lawsuit said | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/security/202...

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History | ▶ "These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past." | 404 Media www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Seeing double! ESA's Izaña-2 laser ranging station has begun to track space debris from the Spanish island of Tenerife. In the future, engineers hope to use such lasers to nudge small debris off of a collision course with a satellite. Full documentary at: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs | ▶ The first widespread success in curing HIV may come from children, not adults | Ars Technica via Wired arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain | ▶ Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources | 404 Media www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work | ▶ AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model | FULL ARTICLE www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it | ▶ Soundslice caught OpenAI's bot telling users about a fake music notation feature - then built it | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/c...