NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for THE NERVE in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

The Nukit Tempest Pro- Ultra-Quiet Air Purifier Kit Is Now Available! ⦿ All-metal, Buy-It-For-life Construction. ⦿ All parts included- Nukit's own custom-made high-pressure 140mm fans, fan and filter grills, 12 V power supply with five-meter cable, PWM speed controller,

We upgraded our old CleanAirKits - Big Cleaning at a Whisper Luggable XL-7 with seven Cooler Master Mobius 120 PC fans. The result? A Luggable XL Ultra ✨ Our full video review is out: youtu.be/FySkJ1WKaTA

my latest investigation for Consumer Reports is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day — some by more than 10 times !

I use squarespace for my online shop and the AI auto reply suggestion keeps prompting me to lie about a death in my family whenever someone messages me to ask about their order

Court Watchers stick together.

Increasingly, AI reminds me of the Lotus-Eater island in the Odyssey. It offers all manner of pleasures and the prospect of never having to work or think again. But the Lotus-Eaters became indolent vestiges of their former selves. We must heed the warnings of the old tales.

“In November 2024, the quantity of AI-generated articles surpassed human-written articles. However, the proportion of AI-generated articles has plateaued. We hypothesize that practitioners found that AI articles don’t perform well in search.” 🔗 graphite.io/five-percent/m…

Someone is paying $0.01 per word to editors to turn AI slop into “authentic human content”

You DON’T need to go into debt for an air purifier. You can just build your own, or choose one of the MANY affordable models that for whatever reason don’t show up on the list below 🤔 Don’t be duped into buying an overpriced, underperforming device: housefresh.com/air-purifiers/

You can make a Tempest with nothing but foamcore, tape and whatever secondhand PC fans you can put your hands on- even mismatched, and it will still out perform many commercial filters. github.com/opennukit/Nuki…

HouseFresh Another consideration now, unfortunately, is replacement filter DRM/lock-in (akin to printer ink refill lock-in) being implemented by at least one of the pricey HEPA brands Filter replacement costs can be a dealbreaker, especially when uncompetitive 📎 youtu.be/LCu_n2Nddu0

What would happen if every web publisher collectively went on strike until Google agrees to pay AI licensing fees?🪧🪧🪧

So I dug a little deeper into this app and found that they say this on every page: "No independent Product Testing; Oasis does not conduct independent testing of products or brands unless we explicitly say so on a page. " I feel bad for people who pay for the app and get duped.

“Some 72% of responses by Gemini, Google's AI assistant, had significant sourcing issues, compared to below 25% for all other assistants, it said.” reuters.com/business/media…

Because with PE, everything that used to be a tool that did a simple job is a wealth extraction tool first, and whatever it used to do second. Only now it does it poorly- usually with ads. You can't make an anvil without an app with PE because there's no recurring income,

“South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents.” 🔗 restofworld.org/2025/south-kor…

I'm being sued for £8m, in what I believe is one of the largest English libel claims ever made. In the interests of transparency, I'm publishing all the documents here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/10/23/sue…

→ 45% of AI answers had at least one significant issue → 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems (missing, misleading, or incorrect) → 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information 🔗 bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

timeextension.com/news/2025/10/p… Carl Hendy 👀