Nick Dastoor

Jenrick accused of racism over ‘no white faces’ comments as he also claims ‘collapse of old order is in sight’ – UK politics live Labour mayor of the West Midlands says Jenrick’s comments about Handsworth were racist

A sign of how confusing Tories are as a political proposition that you have to guess if they are touting "the collapse of the old order" as a good or a bad thing

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I want to note our appreciation for the reporting of The Guardian. Its reports were based in part on sources outside Microsoft that had information we could not access in light of our customer privacy commitments. This helped inform our review.

Can’t recall seeing anything like this from a tech company recently blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

I guess assumption #1 could be argued to relate to a world in which Google turns off search results below, akin to what a full switch to AI Mode would be, plus no option to opt back or user desire to switch to rival search engine. The second is more fundamental though: the baseline is 15%, not 100%

Graph showing how much Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with Al summaries

Here is the Pew research

Yes, to be clear the situation is bad with potential to be much worse but there are a couple of false assumptions in Rusty taking the 1% figure to mean that. First, the one you mention. Second, that pre-AI clickthrough was 100% to a link

Glasgow woman credits 'love of cheesy puffs' for long life after 102nd birthday

"That's my secret to a long life: custard, custard, custard." WW2 veteran, 106, puts long life down to custard

One day the secret of longevity will be unlocked and we'll know if it is cheesy puffs or custard

It reminds me of the bit in Serial s1 where they cannot establish whether there was a payphone at a certain Best Buy in 1999

Absolutely Out of Order I don’t want much out of life, you know. I really don’t. Just the basics. Like, for example, knowing which episode of Absolutely Fabulous was broadcast on BBC2 on the 17th December 1992…

Which episode of Absolutely Fabulous was broadcast on the 17 December 1992? It's unsettling how hard it is to pin down the answer, but John Hoare did www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/05/abso...

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket Pocket had a nearly two-decade-long run.

Well, damn. I'll have to export all those articles to somewhere else that I won't read them

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Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist "I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."

OK it was an insert, which makes sense

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I just can't understand how this could make it through a serious newspaper's production process

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan Advance The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi...

Nazi cosplay getting out of hand
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Mirror, Sun and Express all wrapped in same Tesco advert

Media plurality #everytitlehelps

Impact of Bluesky on referral should now get much clearer

Scrum (software development) - Wikipedia

Though this seems to be partly responsible
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@lynneguist.bsky.social I had to check after yesterday's Wordle to see if you'd ever mentioned scrum getting popular in the US. Don't think you have! Seems to be a 21C thing
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The Telegraph has a special page for woke

www.telegraph.co.uk/woke/

AI Overview Google AI Overview: John Lennon's stepmother was Yoko Ono, a Japanese multimedia artist. Lennon married Ono in 1969.

Yes, that's right

Still, I suppose it beats "Laura Kuenssberg is going to be talking to a minister soon"

Tony Martin, the farmer jailed for shooting dead a teenage burglar at his Norfolk property in 1999, has died aged 80

Yeah, not sure about this as a breaking news alert, BBC

YouTube video by Google Cloud Tech Translating baby sounds using Google AI

Artificial intelligence becomes indistinguishable from a sitcom

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Remembering how many Ls and Ps a Phil(l)i(p)p(s) has is my spelling nemesis

BBC headline: Why you probably aren't wearing your towels often enough

Is it because I'm really scummy?

Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast Daily Listen summarizes topics into roughly five-minute episodes.

All this tech is great for blind and visually impaired people. But I can't say the thought of my Discover feed being turned into a podcast is thrilling me (never mind the copyright implications)
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Guardian most read box 1 . Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content 2. Trump declines to rule out using military force to control Greenland and Panama Canal - US politics live

Hello dystopia my old friend

Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

Good news for publishers' referral; bad news for the world?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yes I can't imagine alt text will
be mainly a manual job for much longer

Ha ha. In a bored moment I once ran a Twitter search of people I followed and unfollowed most of those who had ever used it

Hi. Just followed your starter pack. I work in audience at the Guardian if you'd like to add me

Telegraph headline: "Tributes paid to Crocodile Dundee star with 'challenging personality'" Mirror headline: "Crocodile Dundee star dies aged 90 as loved ones mark 'the end of an incredible era'"

Creative ways of saying a crocodile has died