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White nationalist Richard Spencer and white supremacist Nick Fuentes join app, according to Media Matters Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, has said he wants to make “kindness” a focus of his company’s new Threads app. Following the launch of the app last week, Zuckerberg hoped to draw a direct contrast to Twitter which, with …

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Known as the ‘people’s missile’, the bomb costs about £2,300 to build and can be transported in a car boot Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates At an industrial estate near Kyiv, a group of engineers stand next to a tube. The metal device is part of a homemade rocket. After twiddling with an ignition …

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The US author’s violent tale of death row inmates starring in gladiatorial contests for mass entertainment is an intriguing conceit, but its execution is heavy-handed Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars comes to publication freighted with hype because of its stark envisioning of American death row prisoners forced to fight one another to the bloody end, …

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah review – a big and bold dystopian satire that lacks nuance Read More »

A new Cambridge University institute will try to harness the good and anticipate the bad effects of artificial intelligence Stephen Cave has considerable experience of well-intentioned actions that have unhappy consequences. A former senior diplomat in the foreign office during the New Labour era, he was involved in treaty negotiations which later – and unexpectedly …

Apocalypse not now? AI’s benefits may yet outweigh its very real dangers Read More »

Humanoid robots speak – with some awkward pauses – in ‘world first’ press conference at Geneva AI summit Robots have no plans to steal the jobs of humans or rebel against their creators, but would like to make the world their playground, nine of the most advanced humanoid robots have told an artificial intelligence summit …

Robots say they have no plans to steal jobs or rebel against humans Read More »

… and discovered a hall of mirrors. Can the 70 million who signed up in two days last week to Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media have got it wrong? It’s a truth universally acknowledged that there is the real world, with all its sprawling ambiguity and apathy, and then there is Twitter, where absolute certainty …

I finally joined Twitter – and Threads – to see what all the fuss was about Read More »

Data from Greg Johnson’s Counter-Currents sheds light on how organization promotes its ideology online A data leak from the website of a white nationalist publisher has revealed recordings, published and unpublished documents, and hitherto-private interview recordings that shed light on the way in which the organization promotes its ideology online. The internal data from Counter-Currents, …

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Four Guardian reporters on the platform that defined the early years of their career – and what its end might mean for them For months now, Twitter users have been anticipating the platform’s demise. The technology is buggy and often appears to be breaking down. There’s a new corporate crisis every week. It’s a strange …

A eulogy for Twitter: the place us journalists loved, for better or worse Read More »

It’s not enough to build learning around a single societal shift. Students should be trained to handle a rapidly changing world “From one day to the next, our profession was wiped out. We woke up and discovered our skills were redundant.” This is what two successful graphic designers told me about the impact of AI. …

How we can teach children so they survive AI – and cope with whatever comes next | George Monbiot Read More »

Would wind and fog stop the PhD student getting the shot she was after? Dominika Koszowska is a self-confessed night owl but she had woken up extra early that morning with the goal of capturing the sunrise. The photographer, who is studying for a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, was …

‘It was one of the most beautiful sunrises I’ve ever seen’: Dominika Koszowska’s best phone picture Read More »