Saturday, 17 October 2026
Picked from the best of the world's press
Purple beautyberry, Daisen Park, Sakai, Osaka. Focus stack of 4 photos.
A Citizen Lab investigation shows an Israeli ad-tech company used programmatic advertising on Google, Facebook and other platforms to deliver zero-click malware to Al Jazeera journalists and other targets.
Analysis of more than 460,000 US adults over two decades found that replacing 10% of ultra-processed foods with minimally processed foods was linked to a 2% lower bowel cancer rate, but the label itself said little about risk.
Consumer democracies only hear the voice of the present. Politics, culture and markets all reward instant gratification, so nobody invests in the future.
The music industry's addiction to the four-chord formula is driving listeners away from new music, pushing old hits to the top of the charts and even turning the youngest listeners toward their parents' favourites.
A survey of nearly 1,700 young Americans aged 18 to 29 finds that fear of mass shootings does not automatically translate into support for stricter gun laws: among young men, Republicans and conservatives, greater fear predicts less support for gun restrictions.
While he pushed stablecoin legislation in the White House, Trump's crypto adviser Bo Hines' family consulting firm took millions from Tether; three weeks after he left, Hines became CEO of Tether's US arm.
A Neanderthal skeleton from Iraq's Shanidar Cave bears a fatal spear wound through the chest, likely inflicted 75,000 years ago.
A 2012 law that excused private firms from public reporting let tech companies stay private longer, blowing bubbles that eventually landed on retail investors.
If the US bans exports of DUV immersion lithography tools to China today, China could produce only about one percent as many AI chips as the US by the mid-2030s — the strongest lever America still holds.
Former OpenAI researcher Nick Cammarata published a long post arguing generative AI models can in fact be understood, overturning the industry's core belief that neural networks are impenetrable.
