Index

• Download 200+ free modern art books from the Guggenheim Museum – Open Culture

  archives, art, books, Jenny Holzer

• DSKY: A unique Moonwatch with a true Lunar legacy – Apollo Instruments

  computing, gadgets, history of technology, NASA, space, watches

• EBacc may ‘constrain choices’, curriculum review chair says – Schools Week

  education, schools, standards

• Education Secretary gives Bett Show 2025 keynote address – GOV.UK

  AI, education, politics, productivity, schools

• Effort grunting – Wikenigma

  science, Wikipedia

• Egon Schiele’s landscapes tell a winter’s tale – Hyperallergic

  art, Egon Schiele, painting

• Electric Dreams: Art and technology before the internet – Tate

  art, computing, galleries, installation art, interactive, technology

• Elegance and hustle – Aeon Essays

  books, design, France, history, journalism, literature, media

• Elon Musk may already be overstaying his welcome in Trump’s orbit – NBC News

  Donald Trump, Elon Musk, politics

• Endless fields of detritus blanket Cássio Vasconcellos’s aerial composites – Colossal

  art, Cassio Vasconcellos, environment, photography

• European alternatives for popular services – European Alternatives

  Europe, Google, internet, Microsoft, privacy, software

• Even though it’s breaking: On barbarism and barbers; The Great Dictator (1940) – Bright Wall/Dark Room

  art, Charlie Chaplin, movies, politics

• Everything you can do from Google Chrome’s address bar (besides run searches) – WIRED

  Google, software

• Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles – Nature

  China, fakes, research, science, universities

• Extra extra! The end times, onscreen – The New York Times

  horror, movies, newspapers, sci-fi, time

• Face painter: Meet Chris Alexander, The Dial Artist – About Time: Esquire

  design, painting, watches

• Faking It: Deepfake porn site’s link to tech companies – Bellingcat

  AI, deepfakes, fakes

• Fears ‘thousands will suffer’ as all Leeds children centres under ‘review’ by cash-strapped council – Leeds Live

  children, funding, Leeds, welfare

• Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House – The Guardian

  Donald Trump, politics, psychology

• Filtered for the rise of the well-dressed robots – Interconnected

  robots, technology

• Finally, an Agatha Christie adaptation that gets it right – The i Paper

  Agatha Christie, Art Deco, nostalgia, television

• Find awe and inspiration in thousands of public domain artworks – Hyperallergic

  art, design, history, illustration, public domain

• Free Media Heck Yeah

  internet, software

• Free tech eliminates the fear of public speaking – University of Cambridge

  AI, education, technology, training, universities, VR

• Friend or faux – The Verge

  AI, chatbots, Replika

• From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem – MIT Technology Review

  Elon Musk, ethics, politics, software, technology

• From Pong to Pokémon: A history of holiday ‘It’ toys – The New York Times

  children, history, toys

• Fulneck School: Leeds private school announces shock closure with ‘deep regret’ after opening in 1753 – Yorkshire Evening Post

  education, Leeds, schools

• Funny haha – The European Review of Books

  Europe, humour, journalism, satire

• Gamer role introduced in children’s hospital – BBC News

  children, health, mental health, Scotland, video games

• Ge Wang: GenAI art is the least imaginative use of AI imaginable – Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

  AI, music

• Getting rid of the penny introduces a new problem: nickels – CNN Business

  Donald Trump, economics, money

• Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting – One Useful Thing

  AI, chatbots, language, work

• Give it a Polish! Classic film posters with a twist – The Guardian

  art, illustration, movies, Poland, posters

• Glorious Trash

  book reviews, books

• Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ – The Verge

  calendar, culture, Google, politics

• Google Calendar removes Pride Month, cultural heritage months – National Catholic Register

  calendar, culture, Google, politics

• Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance – The Washington Post

  AI, Google, military, surveillance, technology

• Google Keep FAB redesign makes new notes a two-step process – 9to5Google

  apps, design, Google, writing

• Google Maps now shows the ‘Gulf of America’ – The Verge

  Donald Trump, geography, Google, maps, Mexico, names, USA

• Google’s latest experiment calls local businesses to check prices and availability for you – Android Authority

  AI, chatbots, Google, search

• Grand Theft Hamlet

  documentaries, Shakespeare, video games

• Hacker laws

  computing, design, software, technology

• Hallucinogenic sci-fi movie: Inside the rather bizarre relaunch of Jaguar – Car Dealer Magazine

  advertising, branding, design, marketing, transport

• Hate music practice? How you can learn to love your instrument again in 100 days – Classical Music

  classical, music

• Have a weird Christmas with our album of vintage photo oddities – Flashbak

  Christmas, photography

• Here I gather all the friends: Machiavelli and the emergence of the private study – The Public Domain Review

  books, history, libraries

• Here’s why I decided to buy ‘InfoWars’ – The Onion

  conspiracies, journalism, satire

• Hey, Gemini! Mega Galaxy S25 leak confirms major AI upgrades and lots more – Android Authority

  AI, LLM, mobile phones, technology

• How an AI-written book shows why the tech ‘terrifies’ creatives – BBC News

  AI, books, copyright, pubishing

• How counties are shifting in the 2024 presidential election – Washington Post

  Donald Trump, politics

• How does DeepSeek’s A.I. chatbot navigate China’s censors? Awkwardly. – The New York Times

  AI, censorship, chatbots, China, politics

• How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris – NPR

  France, history, photography, WW2

• How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war – The Guardian

  Gaza, geography, history, Israel, Naomi Klein, politics

• How the Moon became a place – Aeon

  astronomy, science, space

• How the US elections will unfold overnight for British viewers – The Guardian

  Donald Trump, elections, Kamala Harris, politics, USA

• How to disappear completely – The Verge

  archives, computing, data, internet, technology

• How to Work Better: Making a mural on Houston Street – Guggenheim

  art, Fischli-Weiss, mural, productivity

• Human therapists prepare for battle against A.I. pretenders – The New York Times

  AI, chatbots, health, mental health, psychology

• Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain – The Guardian

  business, Yorkshire