"The message now is that all activity counts,"

Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine copies instead of serving them a 404 error

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

53% of Crypto Tokens Launched Since 2021 Have Failed, Most in 2025

Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?

Digg is officially back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian

US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children

Check out our list of 10 albums to get you started on your jazz journey and introduce you to some of jazz’s great artists

Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users

iOS 26 is a massive flop

article argues that Elon Musk's social media platform X must be banned due to its enabling of AI-generated explicit images, including child pornography, and its promotion of far-right content. It criticizes the lack of swift action by regulators and politicians, despite the clear harm being caused to women and children

Musk's AI startup xAI reported a net loss of $1.46 billion for the September quarter, up from $1 billion in the previous quarter, according to a Bloomberg News report

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code

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R.I.P. MTV

"TikTok is designed to remove every natural stopping point that once told your brain a moment had passed. There is no beginning, no middle, no end. Just a stream of novelty that never asks you to pause. When your brain cannot find edges, it cannot store memories properly"

‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far | Photography | The Guardian

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Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform reliably when put to the test

This article discusses the invention of a new type of plant-based plastic by researchers in Japan that fully degrades in seawater without leaving behind any microplastics