Index

• The tangled tale of The Times’s URL – The New York Times

  history of technology, internet, journalism, newspapers, web

• The Tyranny of Now – The New Atlantis

  communication, culture, social media, society

• The ugly objectification behind the world’s first robot artist – Frieze

  art, robots, technology

• The winners of Rest of World’s photography contest – Rest of World

  art, immigration, photography

• The world of tomorrow – Works in Progress

  future, society, technology

• The world order could start to evolve from the Arctic: Trump, thin ice and the fight for Greenland’s Northwest Passage – The Guardian

  Arctic, Donald Trump, environment, Greenland

• There is no going back – The New York Times

  Donald Trump, Elon Musk, politics

• There’s a Squid Game Easter egg on Google – and it’s addictive – Euronews

  games, Google, television

• They’ve won me over: chancellor’s constituents welcome budget – The Guardian

  economics, Leeds, politics

• Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 – Simon Willison’s Weblog

  AI, chatbots, computing, LLM, technology

• Think Trumpism couldn’t take root and flourish in Britain? Think again – The Guardian

  Donald Trump, Labour, politics

• This AI-powered invention machine automates eureka moments – IEEE Spectrum

  AI, business

• This Pixar-style dancing lamp hints at Apple’s future home robot – The Verge

  Apple, gadgets, robots, technology

• Three-armed robot conductor makes debut in Dresden – The Guardian

  classical, music, robots

• TikTok is partially back online in the US, but it’s not back in the App Store yet – The Verge

  Donald Trump, social media

• Traverse Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ with Smarthistory – Colossal

  art, documentary, Hieronymus Bosch, painting, video

• Treasury official quits after resisting Musk’s requests on payments – The New York Times

  Donald Trump, Elon Musk, politics, technology

• Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed – The Guardian

  Donald Trump, politics

• Trump team reportedly getting fed up with Elon Musk’s weird behavior – Futurism

  Donald Trump, Elon Musk, politics

• Trump win ‘awkward’ for critics in U.K., France, Australia governments – The Washington Post

  Donald Trump, politics

• Trump’s proposal to ‘take over’ Gaza sparks immediate rebukes – The New York Times

  Donald Trump, Gaza, Israel, politics

• Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world – The Guardian

  mental health, social media, society

• Twelve dudes and a hype tunnel: Scenes from the ‘Super Bowl for Excel nerds’ – The New York Times

  e-sports, Excel, software, spreadsheets

• UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI – The Guardian

  AI, education, standards, students, universities

• Um, the odds of that asteroid hitting us in 2032 have doubled – Vice

  NASA, space

• Unauthorised school absence widening ‘disadvantage gap’ in England – The Guardian

  children, education, schools

• Undergraduate upends a 40-year-old data science conjecture – Quanta Magazine

  computing, science

• Use this app instead of Excel to directly edit CSV files – Lifehacker

  data, software, spreadsheets

• Video Game History Foundation Library

  archives, history, history of technology, libraries, video games

• Visualizing the daily scroll of the average social media user – Visual Capitalist

  data, data visualisation, social media

• Washington DC residents flee ahead of Trump inauguration: ‘I can’t be here’ – The Guardian

  Donald Trump, politics

• Watch the original Nosferatu, the classic German expressionist vampire film, before the new remake arrives this December – Open Culture

  Dracula, movies

• We are dedicated to the American public. And we aren’t done yet. – 18F Group

  Elon Musk, jobs, politics

• We were wrong: An oral history of WIRED’s original website – WIRED

  history of technology, internet, technology, web, web design

• Well, that’s not good – Futurism

  AI, chatbots, health, mental health, psychology

• What DeepSeek may mean for the future of journalism and generative AI – Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

  AI, China, journalism, LLM, technology

• What is AI art? – Christie’s

  AI, art, auctions

• What is it like to be a bass? Fish-eye view photography (1919–22) – The Public Domain Review

  animals, books, photography

• What went wrong with Horizon Worlds? Former Meta devs share surprising insights – and a solution – New World Notes

  Meta, metaverse, VR

• What’s wrong with Apple now? – Archive Today: Financial Times

  AI, Apple, economics

• Which AI to use now: An updated opinionated guide – One Useful Thing

  AI, chatbots, computing, LLM

• WhichMIS?

  data, databases, schools, software, technology

• Who can save us from social media? At this point, perhaps just us – The Harvard Gazette

  books, communication, Nicholas Carr, social media, society

• Who you gonna believe, Hegseth or yYour lyin’ eyes? – The Bulwark

  Donald Trump, politics, social media

• Why Amazon is betting on ‘automated reasoning’ to reduce AI’s hallucinations – WSJ

  AI, Amazon, LLM

• Why are we so obsessed with five-star ratings? – ArtReview

  culture, Japan

• Why does Home Depot sell a white paint called Climate Change? – Curbed

  colour, environment, names

• Why has LinkedIn become so weird? – The Guardian

  LinkedIn, marketing, psychology, social media, work

• Why Hong Kong uses bamboo scaffolding, and meet the spider-men who climb it: a visual explainer – South China Morning Post

  architecture, China

• Why in the world does this creepy fork exist? – Food & Wine

  design, food

• Why Starmer and Reeves are pinning their hopes on AI to drive growth in UK – The Guardian

  AI, economics, jobs, LLM, productivity

• Why The Sims is still so popular, 25 years later – Fast Company

  video games

• Will you fall in love with this poem? I did. – The New York Times

  Dianne Seuss, John Keats, poetry

• Without universal AI literacy, AI will fail us – World Economic Forum

  AI, education, ethics, technology

• You can never truly go back – Garbage Day

  Donald Trump, politics, social media

• You can’t post your way out of fascism – 404 Media

  activism, Donald Trump, politics, social media

• You get desensitised to it: how social media fuels fear of violence – The Guardian

  anxiety, children, crime, social media

• Your memecoin is your slush fund – Noahpinion

  Bitcoin, crypto, Donald Trump, economics

• Your next AI wearable will listen to everything all the time – WIRED

  AI, gadgets, hardware, LLM, technology

• Zuckerberg ‘loves’ AI slop image from spam account that posts amputated children – 404 Media

  AI, Facebook, Meta, spam