Julian Fell, Teresa Tan, and Joshua Byrd, writing for writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): “It’s just gravity,” says George Double, a Sydney-based recruiter who has been working with several engineers who were laid off from Block. Block and Atlassian — another company that cited AI as...

Jonathan Vanian, writing for CNBC: Jurors ultimately ruled in favor of the plaintiff, who claimed that Meta and YouTube’s negligence played a “substantial factor” in causing mental health-related harms. Compensatory damages were assessed at $3 million, with Meta on the hook for 70% and YouTube the remaining 30%....

Shubham Bose found the publishers of some news websites — often reputable outlets — are forcing readers to download, in some cases, an additional forty-nine megabytes of needless scripts and data with their articles. This might explain why some of us need to keep our phones charging (a no-no I know) while reading...

Researchers at New York’s Cornell University have devised something called the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale. Long story short, the scale measures how convincing corporate jargon and buzzwords are. Offending terms include actualise, adaptive coherence, credentialing, pressure-test, and the particularly...

Dave Winer: A bit of history. Read this post from 20 years ago by Phil Jones. That’s what I was trying to do back then, just as Twitter came online. I didn’t know it then but was the moment when the web stopped growing. I don’t think, in 2006, anyone realised, nor could have realised, the profound impact Twitter, as...

From film and TV writer David Chen’s review of this year’s Academy Awards: The concept of a 3.5-hour broadcast where you watch big movie stars accept awards and deliver heartfelt speeches is no longer as desirable or profitable as it once was. The Oscar’s TV audience has been steadily declining for about ten years,...

digg.com, social news aggregator, and once the front page of the internet, has closed its doors for the duration, and let a number of staff go, just months after officially relaunching. digg* says an onslaught of AI agents, and automated accounts, are behind the decision, together with an internet, that in 2026, is...

Has the cover been blown on the true identity of British street artist Banksy? Some people seem to think so. A British tabloid, The Mail on Sunday, claim they learned Banksy’s actual name in 2008, something that has — apparently — now been verified. Banksy however, through his lawyer, disputes the finding, says...

Victor Tangermann, writing for Futurism: The company reported a net loss of $57.3 million in 2025 in an earnings report released on Thursday. In an official statement, the company glumly hinted at the possibility of going under sooner rather than later, writing that “there is substantial doubt about the Company’s...

In the search for evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, astronomers, and organisations like SETI, often seek out narrowband radio signals. Space is full of radio signals, most of them broadband, which usually occur naturally. Neutron stars are but one generator of such signals. Narrowband radio...

Proposals were afoot to rename Eleventy — often styled 11ty — a blog publishing platform favoured by some Indie/Small Web bloggers, as Build Awesome. The awesome part of 11ty’s would-be new name derives from Font Awesome, producers of a wide range of icons website publishers can make use of. I’ve used their icons in...

Twelve titles have been included on the longlist for this year’s Stella Prize, the Australian literary award recognising the work of women and non-binary writers. 58 Facets: On violence and the law, by Marika Sosnowski Ankami, by Debra Dank Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea, by Natalie Harkin Cannon, by Lee Lai Find Me...