Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web
Tim Berners-Lee thinks AI will help the web, not destroy it. The inventor of the World Wide Web has spent years warning about platform concentration and social media’s corrosive effects, but he views AI differently. AI has accomplished what his Semantic Web project could not. The technology extracts structured data from websites regardless of how the information was formatted. … ⌘ Read more
Estes comentários de Montenegro sobre a Greve Geral é para galvanizar mais trabalhadores a fazer greve?
É que não perceber a convocação é não saber o que anda a fazer; dizer que os sindicatos com quem reúne em concertação social são braços da sua oposição partidária é descredibilizar a própria concertação social.
No fundo, o Governo está a dizer “vamos aprovar este pacote laboral e não há nada que possam fazer quanto a isso”, ao que os trabalhadores dizem “para começar, podemos entrar em greve geral”. Esta reacção de Montenegro só confirma a necessidade dessa decisão.
Allowing 16-year-olds in may be the toughest part of social media ban
Face scans aren’t accurate enough to tell 14 from 17, and most 16-year-olds don’t have government-issued photo ID. ⌘ Read more
French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who freely benefit from social security ⌘ Read more
Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Facebook Dating, which debuted in 2019, has become a surprise hit for the company. It lets people create a dating profile free in the app, where they can swipe and match with other eligible singles. It has more than 21 million daily users, quietly making it one of the most popular online dating service … ⌘ Read more
Denmark’s Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Denmark’s government on Friday announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, ratcheting up pressure on Big Tech platforms as concerns grow that kids are getting too swept up in a digitized world of harmful content and commercial int … ⌘ Read more
Grand Theft Auto 6 Delayed Again Until November 2026
Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI won’t launch in May of next year as planned. Kotaku: The highly anticipated sequel is now set to arrive in November 2026. On Thursday, Rockstar announced on social media that the long-awaited next entry in its open-world blockbuster franchise would need a bit more time, delaying the game an additional six months from … ⌘ Read more
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“This is not a Chinese bus problem. It is a problem for all types of vehicles and devices with Chinese electronics built in.”, says in the article.
Sorry but no. The truth is that “This is not an all types of vehicles and devices with Chinese electronics built in problem. It is a problem for all types of remotely accessible vehicles.”
I’m a father and IT worker. The social media ban won’t protect our kids – it will hurt them
The social media world is not some alternate reality our children “escape” into – it is the reality they live in. The sooner we accept that, the sooner we can help them thrive within it. ⌘ Read more
Australia’s teen social media ban has a gaming-sized loophole
The list of banned platforms requires mental gymnastics that the government has struggled to explain, and ignores where kids actually spend their time. ⌘ Read more
Scheduling the next Yarn.social Call for next month, a month in advance. Hope y’all can make the next one 🤞
Let’s do it! 🤟 https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social
👋 Reminder that we’re starting up our social calls again (monthly), RSVP here 🤟 It starts in 13h27m 😅 Hope to see some/all of you there 👌
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Fevela.me – A newsreader-like client for the Nostr social network
I created Fevela, a fork of the great Jumble, because I wanted a Nostr social client that would give me back full control of my attention and time. So I designed an interface similar to that of old good newsreaders, which for me is perfect to encourage exploration of interesting content rather than doomscrolling. I then added some ad hoc filters that can help reduce noise and improve the signal.
Unlike traditional social media that’s designed to maximize your time on t … ⌘ Read more
‘Most of it is good’: Tim Berners-Lee on the state of the web now
The man who invented the web is aware of the many issues it faces, from problematic social media use to the rise of unfettered AI. He also has a plan to remedy the situation ⌘ Read more
Poachers are killing families of spider monkeys, kidnapping their babies and selling them to Americans on social media ⌘ Read more
$20,000 Bounty Offered to Bribe FFmpeg Team to Fire Contributor
A popular YouTuber named Theo Browne offered $20k to the Open Source FFmpeg team if they remove their social media person, who Theo calls a “motherf***er”. ⌘ Read more
Why Your social.org Files Can Have Millions of Lines Without Any Performance Issues
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So just @bender and I attending our monly call eh?
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@prologic@twtxt.net hmmm:
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://meet.mills.io/ws/Yarn.social/l3oVrknUnjZo2zSQoGlOX3.
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So just @bender and I attending our monly call eh?
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Oh, also, have you fixed https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social already? It didn’t work the other day.
Reminder, kick-starting our monthly social call! 📞 Please RSVP if you can make it!
Why do Americans have shorter life expectancy and worse health than people in other high-income countries?
Mauricio Avendano and Ichiro Kawachi , London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Social Policy, LSE Health and Social Care | Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, - National Library of Medicine
_Stephan: I have published on this in science journals, … ⌘ Read more
Who goes to the ballet? Education and social connections matter more than income, study finds
Why do some people regularly attend the opera, visit art galleries, or go to classical music concerts—while others rarely, if ever, do? ⌘ Read more
Hey all 👋 Starring up the monthly social call we used to have 🤞 Please RSVP here if you can make it! 🙏
Rethinking polygamy—research upends conventional thinking about the advantages of monogamous marriage
In July 2025, Uganda’s courts swiftly dismissed a petition challenging the legality of polygamy, citing the protection of religious and cultural freedom. For most social scientists and policymakers who have long declared polygamy a “harmful cultural practice,” the decision was a frustrating but predictable setback in efforts to build healthier and more equal societies. ⌘ Read more
Offline interactions predict voting patterns better than online networks, finds study
According to a new study, offline social networks, revealed by co-location data, predict U.S. voting patterns more accurately than online social connections or residential sorting. Michele Tizzoni and colleagues analyzed large-scale data on co-location patterns from Meta’s Data for Good program, which collates anonymized data collected from people who enabled location services on the Facebook smartphone a … ⌘ Read more
Anyone interested in starting up the monthly social calls we used to have? 👋
Erlang Solutions: Immersive Esports: The Technology Behind Competitive Gaming
Esports has outgrown local tournaments and now runs on global platforms linking millions of players and fans, powered by immersive esports technology. Communities form around games, teams, and streamers, blending competition, entertainment, and social connection. At this scale, reliability and low latency are non-negotiable to keep matches fair and audiences engaged during spikes.
High-spe … ⌘ Read more
No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more
No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more
No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more
Satellite images reveal ancient hunting traps used by South American social groups
Satellite images have revealed an ancient system of elaborate, funnel-shaped mega traps likely built by hunters and pastoralists to catch prey in the high altitudes of northern Chile. ⌘ Read more
In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views
Framework, the maker of repairable laptops, is embroiled in a controversy, as the company and its CEO are openly supporting people with, well, questionable views. If you know a little bit about PR in social media space, you might note that, right out of the gate, a project by a vocal white nationalist known for splitting communities by their mere presence, is not a great highlight choice for an overtly non-left-righ … ⌘ Read more
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Sam Whited: 2025-09-30 Trolley Barn Contra Post Mortem
The first time I DJed for a Contra Dance1 was at Inman Park’s
famous Trolley Barn.
At the time I was DJing in the way other social dances are normally DJed: I had
a laptop, I played a song, everyone danced.
No fancy mixing, or effects: the most technical thing I did was loop 32 bar
sections of music to stretch it out until the caller was ready to end the dance.
This time around, returning to … ⌘ Read more
‘No playbook’: eSafety boss backs social media ban despite expert warnings
The commissioner insists age verification can work, despite expert warnings of deep flaws with just over two months until the start of the ban. ⌘ Read more
Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools
https://joshua.hu/llm-engineer-review-sast-security-ai-tools…
https://joshua.hu/files/AI_SAST_PRESENTATION.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449348
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@bender Really? 🤔
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And I need to make something absolutely clear as well here. Twtxt was completely and utterly dead back in {Aug 2020](https://yarn.social/about.html) when I came across the spec and its simplicity and realised the lost opportunity. Since then we’ve continued to grow a small but thriving community. The extensions we’ve built over time have stood and lasted the test of time for the past ~5 years. We need not break things too badly, because what we have today and was designed years ago actually works quite well™ (despite some flaws).
Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
With the help of GitHub, UNHCR turned drone imagery into maps — helping refugees in Kakuma and Kalobeyei build sustainable, powered communities.
The post Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency appeared first on [The GitHub Blog](https://github. … ⌘ Read more