Almost eight in ten of the biggest news websites in the UK and US are now blocking AI training bots. A recent analysis by Buzzstream shows that 79% of the top 100 news websites are blocking at least one crawler used for AI training, such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot

As Prediction Markets Grow in Popularity, Some Fear 'Insider Trading.' What's Next?

New York has passed a law requiring social media companies to display mental health warning labels on addictive features, such as infinite scroll and autoplay, in an effort to reduce harm linked to excessive online use

This video discusses the impact of tissue culture on the rare plant market, exploring topics such as natural and artificial scarcity, the Terunoworld Incident, and the value of rare plants

In an essay published in The Verge, Benjamin Riley argues that today's AI boom is built on a fundamental misunderstanding: language modeling is not the same as intelligence

The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.

This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of today’s platforms.

To some, the hyperlink is dangerous and must be controlled

Both natural DNA repaired breaks and edits leave lasting damage. This damage seems to occur with CRISPR edits as well as natural occurring breaks in DNA

another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as "one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history"

Report: Tim Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO 'as Soon as Next Year'

Meta is retiring Facebook's external Like and Share buttons for third-party websites on February 10, 2026, officially closing the book on a once-dominant traffic driver as usage declines and Facebook's role within Meta continues to shrink

Cocktails and checkmates: the young Britons giving chess a new lease of life

Laid-back clubs proving a hit in London, Birmingham and elsewhere as people look for new ways to socialise

study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spiked

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.

the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, said it would invest as much as $2 billion in Polymarket at an $8 billion pre-money valuation

Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe

Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that "Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path

Humans Inhale as Much as 68,000 Microplastic Particles Daily, Study Finds

Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn

Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe

South Korean military is witnessing a significant transformation as its size has decreased by 20% over the past six years. This reduction is predominantly attributed to a continuing decline in the male population, raising concerns about national defense capabilities