Index

• Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people’s hearing problems? – BBC News

  health, hearing

• As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders – Ars Technica

  AI, Google, search, television

• Asleep at the wheel in the headlight brightness wars – The Ringer

  design, safety, transport

• Aspect, photo organization redefined – Bildhuus

  photography, software

• Associated Press 100 Photos of 2024: An epic catalog of humanity – Associated Press

  journalism, photography

• Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 – Space

  NASA, space

• Attendance and absence advice for adverse weather conditions – Lewisham Services for Schools

  data, schools

• Augmented Intelligence – Christie’s

  AI, art, auctions

• Banana artwork sells for $6.2 million – Hyperallergic

  art, Bitcoin, food, Maurizio Cattelan, sculpture

• Bans, fees, taxes. Can anything stop overtourism? – The New York Times

  economics, tourism

• Barricade the doors: Pupil describes school lockdown terror as boy killed – ITV News

  children, education, schools, Sheffield

• Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive – Mishell Baker: Bluesky

  advice, health, mental health, politics, social media

• Better images of AI

  AI, art

• Better without AI

  AI, books, future, LLM, technology

• Billion-dollar video game: is this the most expensive piece of entertainment ever made? – The Guardian

  funding, video games

• Blue bots, done quick!

  Bluesky, bots, social media, writing

• Bluesky has an impersonator problem – MIT Technology Review

  Bluesky, social media

• Bluesky launches a custom feed for vertical videos – TechCrunch

  social media, video

• Booker Prize is awarded to Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ – The New York Times

  books, environment, space

• Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra – Cadogan Hall

  classical, Istanbul, London, music, Turkey

• Brooks and Capehart on the implications of Trump’s altercation with Zelenskyy – PBS News

  Donald Trump, journalism, politics, Volodymyr Zelenskyy

• Browser-based access to Second Life: Limited testing begins today – Second Life Community

  Second Life, software, video games

• ByteDance’s InfiniteYou lets users generate unlimited variations of portrait photos – The Decoder

  AI, China, deepfakes, fakes

• Can we still recover the right to be left alone? – The Nation

  book reviews, books, data protection, ethics, law, privacy

• CasiOak watches – IFL Watches

  design, painting, watches

• Casual viewing – n+1

  documentaries, movies, Netflix, television

• CD-ROMS in 1994: Bowie, Prince, Gabriel, and Cybermania ’94 – Cybercultural

  Brian Eno, David Bowie, design, history of technology, interactive, music, Peter Gabriel

• Century-scale storage – Harvard Law School Innovation Library Hub

  archives, culture, data, history, libraries, storage, technology, time

• Changes to cultural moments in Google Calendar – Google Keyword

  calendar, culture, Google, politics

• Chaos bewitched: Moby-Dick and AI – The Public Domain Review

  AI, art, books, Moby-Dick

• Chatbot software begins to face fundamental limitations – Quanta Magazine

  AI, computing, maths, science

• ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. DeepSeek: the battle to be my AI work assistant – WSJ

  AI, chatbots, LLM, productivity, work

• China to host human vs. robot half marathon race – Moss and Fog

  China, future, robots, science, technology

• China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals – Rest of World

  AI, chatbots, China, LLM

• Christian Marclay: The Clock – MoMA

  art, Christian Marclay, clocks, movies, time, video

• Citigroup erroneously credited client account with $81tn in ‘near miss’ – Financial Times

  banking, data, errors, money

• Citywalki: Virtual walking tour in cities around the world

  geography, tourism, urban, video

• Climate, technology, and justice – Data & Society

  data, environment, science, technology

• Constantly scrolling on your phone? Why we can’t stand feeling bored – The Guardian

  health, mental health, psychology

• Convert BSky starter pack to a list

  Bluesky, social media

• Could reliance on AI harm critical thinking in young people? Researchers have their worries – South China Morning Post

  AI, China, education, universities

• Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety – Reuters

  health, mental health, video games

• Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens – Sage Journals

  education, information, mental health, reading, social media, truth

• Crudely gesturing Trump effigy appears in Philadelphia – Hyperallergic

  art, Donald Trump, politics, satire, sculpture

• Dailyish – Oliver Burkeman

  philosophy, productivity, self-help

• Daniel Barenboim reveals he has Parkinson’s Disease – Classical Music

  classical, Daniel Barenboim, health, Israel, music

• Data protection in schools – Record keeping and management – Guidance – GOV.UK

  data, data protection, education, GDPR, schools

• David Lynch, conjurer of the uncanny, dies at 78 – Hyperallergic

  David Lynch, movies

• Deborah Turness – AI distortion is new threat to trusted information – BBC Media Centre

  AI, Apple, BBC, journalism, news, truth

• Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good – TechCrunch

  AI, deepfakes, fake news, fakes, photography

• DeepSeek defies America’s AI supremacy – Financial Times

  AI, chatbots, China, LLM

• DeepSeek is the new AI chatbot that has the world talking – I pitted it against ChatGPT to see which is best – TechRadar

  AI, chatbots, China, LLM

• DeepSeek: Tech firm suffers biggest drop in US stock market history as low-cost Chinese AI company bites Silicon Valley – Sky News

  AI, chatbots, China, LLM

• DeepSeek’s safety guardrails failed every test researchers threw at its AI chatbot – WIRED

  AI, chatbots, China, ethics, safety

• Democrats can’t flashmob their way out of this one – Garbage Day

  politics, satire

• Der Ring des Nibelungen review – less is more in Regents Opera’s whittled-down Wagner – The Guardian

  classical, music, opera, Wagner

• Desperate for work, translators train the AI that’s putting them out of work – Rest of World

  AI, jobs, language, LLM, translation, Turkey

• Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL? – The Verge

  AI, chatbots, internet, names, web

• Diff Text – compare text online

  writing

• DOOM: The Gallery Experience – Newgrounds

  art, galleries, games, humour, video games