Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be ‘Addictive’
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/microsoft-ai-scout-addictive-satya-nadella-404-media-copilot-2000702924

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413924

Points: 14

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The Odyssey Fans Are Saying the Same Thing About Its Popcorn Bucket
The Odyssey popcorn bucket has been revealed, and its unexpected design has drawn attention online. Accordingly, fans have shared their thoughts about it on social media. The Odyssey fans react to its IMAX popcorn bucket The Odyssey took an unconventional approach when it came to the design of its popcorn bucket. Instead of modeling after […]

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Companies Are Using Reddit To Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort to systematically manipulate the answers provided by chatbo … ⌘ Read more

‘In Brightest Day’: Epic Lanterns TV Show DCU Poster Shared by James Gunn
James Gunn has shared an intriguing new motion poster for Lanterns. The show will introduce John Stewart and Hal Jordan to the DC Universe. What do we see in the new Lanterns poster? The poster, shared on social media, shows a power ring radiating its signature green glow as it rests on a small puddle […]

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The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok
A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power. ⌘ Read more

Supergirl Fans Confused as Star Wars Character Seemingly Appears in DCU Poster
The worlds of DC and Star Wars have collided in the Supergirl movie. Not officially, but a strange turn of events has left fans confused and questioning what exactly is going on. A new movie poster has become the subject of curiosity on social media. What do we know about the Supergirl and Star Wars […]

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UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
Article URL: https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/

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Demand Is Booming For New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The secondary market for decades old, low-tech John Deere tractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new … ⌘ Read more

All Seasons of Beloved Zombie Series Will Leave Netflix in 2026
All eight seasons of a popular zombie series are scheduled to leave Netflix soon. It is the spin-off of the AMC network’s global phenomenon that popularized the genre in mainstream media. This leaves fans of the franchise with a limited time to stream the eight-season spin-off. Fear the Walking Dead will leave Netflix in August […]

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Masters of the Universe Has 1 Big Problem That Nostalgia Can’t Fix
Amazon MGM Studios is attempting to relaunch the Masters of the Universe franchise to mass audiences this summer. Unfortunately, the movie faces several challenges, including one big problem that nostalgia can’t fix. Masters of the Universe is based on Mattel’s media franchise from the early 1980s. The franchise spawned action figures, comics, animated television series, […]

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‘Awesome Man of Steel Poster’ Shared by Zack Snyder
Zack Snyder recently shared a poster for his Superman movie, Man of Steel. The graphic poster is one of a number of throwbacks to the DCEU that Snyder has shared with fans on social media. It drops as DC co-CEO and director James Gunn has also begun to share more promotional material for his upcoming […]

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Paul Rudd Sold Avengers: Doomsday Tickets for $100K Without Telling Marvel
Paul Rudd recently revealed that he sold tickets to the premiere of Avengers: Doomsday for $100,000 without telling Marvel beforehand. The actor made the confession during a recent conversation with Jimmy Fallon on his talk show. A video of the actor auctioning off the tickets also went viral on social media. Paul Rudd says he […]

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«Ne te retrouve jamais seule avec lui»: dans les médias, des consignes données sur Patrick Bruel
«Mediapart» a recueilli une dizaine de témoignages émanant de journalistes, qui montrent que le comportement du chanteur avec les femmes était connu dans plusieurs rédactions. Certaines avaient pris des dispositions pour les interviews prévues avec la star. TF1 reconnaît avoir agi «par principe de précaution». ⌘ Read more

Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more

Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more

Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more

Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more

Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/morningstar-values-spacex-780-billion-half-its-ipo-target-2026-06-02/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373909

Points: 11

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Meet the Accidental Editor in Chief of Muslim Media
Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh was just trying to find an outlet for Muslim news. Now he has more than 12 million followers. ⌘ Read more

Jeunesse réprimée, pouvoir périmé
Face aux célébrations des supporteurs du PSG après la finale de la Ligue des champions, aux baignades en pleine canicule précoce dans la capitale et à la culture des free parties, médias et politiques criminalisent la jeunesse, au détriment de son avenir… et du leur. ⌘ Read more

I mean, this is pretty awesome!

Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-social-media-ban-16-bfaa7b01163b61b5d53c4ecfa870d133

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353497

Points: 13

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La propagandiste russe Xenia Fedorova en majesté chez Bolloré, le gouvernement dans la nasse
Interdite en Europe depuis 2022, la chaîne d’État Russia Today France voit aujourd’hui son ancienne dirigeante diffuser librement le narratif du Kremlin sur tous les médias du milliardaire. Les autorités confient être à ce stade impuissantes pour contrer l’influence de cette ressortissante russe. ⌘ Read more

„Man muss immer hoffen“
Zuletzt hat es in Österreich Hafturteile gegen Terrorverdächtige gegeben, die sich im Internet in kurzer Zeit radikalisiert hatten. Moussa Al-Hassan Diaw, Vorsitzender des Vereins Derad, begrüßte am Samstag im Ö1-„Journal zu Gast“ das geplante Social-Media-Verbot für unter 14-Jährige als hilfreich, doch habe es Grenzen. Die Deradikalisierung sei eine „Sisyphosarbeit“, man dürfe aber die Hoffnung nicht aufgeben. ⌘ Read more

L’Arcom met les pieds dans le plat de l’impartialité de l’audiovisuel public
Pour répondre aux critiques, émanant principalement de l’extrême droite, dénonçant l’orientation politique de l’audiovisuel public, le régulateur des médias livre un ensemble de propositions concrètes et applicables à court terme. La ministre de la culture a déjà annoncé son intention de reprendre certaines mesures par décret, «dès cet été». ⌘ Read more

Supreme Court Lets Vermont’s Meta Lawsuit Proceed, Opening Door To 50-State Legal Wave
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a push to avoid a lawsuit alleging that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users, a decision that comes as social media companies increasingly face legal scrutiny. Parent company Meta appealed after Vermont’s highest co … ⌘ Read more

Physical Media Is Making a Comeback. The Next Console Generation Might Kill It
Consoles with disc drives are the easiest way to enjoy all kinds of physical media, but that could end with the next-gen PlayStation 6 and Microsoft’s Project Helix. ⌘ Read more

Raphaël Glucksmann lance son crash test avant la présidentielle
Immigration, sécurité, «sursaut patriotique»: dans son livre et dans les médias, le leader de Place publique assume de vouloir parler «au-delà de la gauche». Entouré d’ex-macronistes, il poursuit sa route vers la présidentielle tout en se donnant encore trois mois de chauffe. ⌘ Read more

Théâtre du Soleil: un audit constate une «tolérance» à la violence mais «efface» la parole des victimes
Trois semaines après les médias autorisés par la fondatrice de la troupe Ariane Mnouchkine, «Mediapart» a obtenu du ministère de la culture d’accéder aux conclusions, peu reluisantes, du rapport d’audit externe demandé après de multiples accusations de violences sexuelles. ⌘ Read more

The AI Fight Brewing Inside the New York Times
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: How newsrooms should use AI – or if they should at all – has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight. Unionized staff … ⌘ Read more

Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News
Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/germany-considers-law-to-force-social-media-algorithm-boost-for-state-approved-news-05-27-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298837

Points: 17

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Company Behind School Bus AI Cameras Wants To Share Footage With Police
joshuark writes: BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses around the U.S., now plans to turn those cameras into automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), capturing the location of every vehicle the buses drive past, and give that data to law enforcement, 404 Media has learned. Bus … ⌘ Read more

Second attempt, at mixing a couple of previous designs together and I think this one came out pretty cute looking.

AI, job cuts and a very fragile mandate
In a week when the Government announced 8,700 public sector roles will go and AI will help fill the gaps, a lunchtime event at Parliament turned into something of a reality check on how fragile trust in AI has become in New Zealand.

One NZ’s second annual AI in Trust report, a nationally representative survey of 1,001 New Zealanders, shows 76% of us have interacted with AI-powered services in the past … ⌘ Read more

Are Trump, Elon and Kanye ALL Social Media Addicts? ⌘ Read more

AI ‘capability leap’: 80% of software developers now using it
Late last year, AWS senior engineer Mike Nooney noticed a flurry of activity on social media that indicated something exciting had happened in his field: AI had taken what we described as a “capability leap”.

“So, I thought, let’s get in and have a look at Claude Code and some of the other tools,” he recounted to an audience at last week’s Techweek26 summit. ⌘ Read more

Un ex-journaliste de Canal+ condamné pour avoir critiqué Bolloré malgré une clause de silence
La cour d’appel de Versailles a condamné Jean-Baptiste Rivoire à verser 142 500 euros à son ex-employeur pour avoir rompu la clause de confidentialité qu’il avait signée et qui l’empêchait de dénoncer la politique de l’industriel breton dans le secteur des médias. ⌘ Read more

Action justice climat manifeste devant CNews pour dénoncer la banalisation des «opinions toxiques»
Le mouvement citoyen a mené mardi soir une action devant les locaux des médias du groupe Bolloré pour réclamer à l’Arcom des sanctions plus sévères et plus efficaces contre les «saillies racistes» et les «manquements» de CNews au pluralisme. ⌘ Read more

Musk’s X admits breaking Australian child safety law, fined $650,000
Elon Musk’s social media company, formerly known as Twitter, failed to comply with an order to detail its child exploitation safeguards. ⌘ Read more

Sommet Trump–Xi à Pékin : ce que la presse n’a pas voulu voir
La visite de Donald Trump en Chine n’a rien d’anodin : elle confirme l’installation entre Washington et Pékin d’une politique pragmatique de puissance assumée par les deux camps. À plusieurs égards, cette rencontre renforce la position américaine et acte un rôle clair pour la Chine, premier partenaire mais rival géopolitique. Un décalage frappant entre les médias […] ⌘ Read more

Plex Triples Lifetime Subscription Cost To $750
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Plex is raising the price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass from $249.99 to $749.99 on July 1. That’s a $500 increase for media server software. Plex says it needs the money for “long-term development” and future features, but a lot of self-hosting folks are already wondering if this is basically a soft way of killing the Lifetime option with … ⌘ Read more

Cinéma, édition, médias: «La culture se soulève pour sonner l’alarme»
Alors qu’une tribune de professionnels du cinéma qui veulent «zapper Bolloré» met le feu au Festival de Cannes, des auteurs et autrices, universitaires et journalistes se mobilisent aussi contre la prédation du milliardaire d’extrême droite. Ils et elles témoignent dans notre émission. ⌘ Read more

FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
The FBI is seeking up to $36 million for nationwide access to automated license plate reader (ALPRs) data, which could let it query vehicle movements across the U.S. and its territories through a commercial database. 404 Media reports: “The FBI has a crucial need for accessible LPRs to provide a diverse and reliable range of collections across the United S … ⌘ Read more

Entre déférence et opportunisme, le RN applaudit les menaces de Canal+ contre les anti-Bolloré
Le parti d’extrême droite prend systématiquement la défense du milliardaire breton à mesure qu’il accroît sa mainmise sur les médias et la culture. Il profite de la mobilisation d’une partie du cinéma français pour renouveler ses attaques contre le CNC, qu’il entend supprimer en cas d’accession au pouvoir. ⌘ Read more

Iran Now Threatens Fees for Subsea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s government “wants to charge the world’s largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz,” reports CNN. Their article also notes that Iran’s state-linked media outlets “have vaguely threatened that traffic could be disrupted if firms don’t pay.”

Lawmakers in Tehran discussed a … ⌘ Read more

Us Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media
Test scores “are lower than they were a decade ago in school districts across the U.S.,” reports Times magazine, citing new data released Wednesday by Stanford researchers. “Reading scores were down roughly 0.6 grades in 2025 compared to 2015, and math scores were down about 0.4 … ⌘ Read more

Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true. ⌘ Read more

Assauts contre l’audiovisuel public: la HATVP se penche sur le lobbying de Lagardère
La Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique cherche à vérifier si le groupe contrôlé par Vincent Bolloré a dissimulé ses tentatives d’influencer la commission d’enquête. Les représentants du «JDD» et d’Europe 1 avaient envoyé des questions aux députés dans le but d’alimenter l’offensive contre les médias publics. ⌘ Read more

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On Reddit, Hacker News and other places where people in software development talk to each other, more and more people are becoming disillusioned with the promise of code generated by large language models. Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often … ⌘ Read more

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