No more Mishal Husain on BBC Today really is the Christmas present no one wanted. Irreplaceable class act & an inspiration to journalists everywhere. Few other radio presenters, if any, have such an innate gift to make you stop what you're doing to listen harder

Is Google undoing a decade of progress on privacy? Their new policy allows invasive device fingerprinting for tracking user activity. Here’s my deep dive into what this means for privacy—and the future of AI.

This MAGA on MAGA crime is so hot right now. "The richest man on earth isn't down for the race war 😭😭😭!"

Altman on AGI: "it will be great at some things but surprisingly bad at others"... >> Errrmmm, doesn't sound like artificial *general* intelligence then? techcrunch.com/2025/02/09/ope…

Sick burns don't get better than this 🤑

Put this in your plastic straw and suck on it theguardian.com/environment/20…

"The new poles are coming to be global democracies versus a global oligarchy." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Ukraine was told it faced losing Starlink if it did not reach a minerals deal” theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…

I proudly lived in the United States a decade, Green Card Permanent Resident. Feel embarrassed for America and all my friends there.... but never give up on the USA....

Worth watching the full Oval Office encounter. Zelenskyy thanks Trump about 7’30” in. About 35 mins later Vance demands to know whether Zelenskyy has thanked Trump. The fight ignites when Zelenskyy challenges Vance on what diplomacy with Putin means and then Vance gets angry

The utter shame of it. A nation of bullies and bastards

Even the music they're playing at #MWC2025 sounds like it was composed by AI

Being mugged €10 for a sandwich that looks and tastes like someone sat on it is the full #MWC experience

imagine such bliss

In April 1986 my parents learned about the #Chernobyl nuclear disaster via #RadioFreeEurope, while the Polish communist regime continued to hide the fact that a radioactive cloud was passing over Poland. Thanks to a radio funded by the US government, I and many other children

Looking fwd to getting my teeth into Lukasz Olejnik’s book on infowar tactics — which, as cat has clearly recognised, is required reading for these propaganda-troubled times

🎙️Tanya O´Carroll called this privacy settlement she won from Meta a “bittersweet victory” techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/met… It’s also bittersweet for me as it’s my last story for TechCrunch - but happily it underscores the value & power of public interest reporting. Support #journalism

Delay, distract, dissemble?

The Chernobyl disaster struck 39 years ago on April 26, 1986. Though it happened in #Ukraine, its devastating impact reached deep into #Belarus, contaminating land and poisoning our population. A passage from Sviatlana Alexievich captures the haunting loss: "The sparrows