the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "depressed" to "bright"

Merkel, who in her new memoir raises fears for the western democratic order with Donald Trump as US president, has also expressed deep concerns about the outsized role to be played in Trump’s administration by Elon Musk

German auto supplier Bosch to cut 5,500 jobs in further sign of carmakers' woes

the progressivist web would do well to migrate directly to Mastodon, not Bluesky

The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’

Satirical news outlet purchases media platform run by Alex Jones at a court-ordered auction

A hate machine’: St Pauli become first major football club to leave X

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic – are facing unexpected hurdles in their efforts to develop more sophisticated models

FTX sues Binance and its former CEO for $1.8bn

Collapsed cryptocurrency company says $1.8bn was ‘fraudulently transferred’ to Binance and its executives

which showed a link to wicked.com, instead of wickedmovie.com. The address was printed on boxes for Glinda and Elphaba dolls, the main characters in Wicked, played in the film adaptation by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo

Let us start with how odd it is to be imposing bans on the most popular and effective aid for quitting smoking that we currently have

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs

Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure

National Literacy Trust finds only 35% of eight to 18-year-olds enjoy reading in their spare time

number of high school boys in Japan who have had first kiss falls to record lows

dating apps, which have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times worldwide, are “exploitative” and are designed not to be deleted but to be addictive, to retain users in order to create revenue

Everything you ever wanted to know about vaginas

‘One big mess’: Fifa not fit to govern football, claims human rights group

The Strava problem: how the fitness app was used to locate the world’s most powerful people

Gates-washing the future

A new Netflix series continues the effort to launder Bill Gates’ reputation

Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech

Gambling poses huge global threat to public health, experts warn