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- LITM
The European Commission considers ChatGPT a very large search engine
The designation requires OpenAI to assess and mitigate the service's systemic risks. Legal scholars and digital rights advocates are debating how far this oversight will extend to the chatbot's generated responses.
September 3, 2026 - Contesto
How geoguessr players identify a road
From road signs to traces left by the Street View car: the geography game born in 2013 has become a video format and a world championship.
September 3, 20263 min read - Dispacci
Shoe size is a poor description of our feet
In a study of 107 women in Melbourne, forefoot circumference varied by up to four centimetres between feet assigned the same size. Choosing a longer shoe can be a way to gain width.
August 31, 2026 - LITM
AI models always invent the same scientists
Elena Vasquez keeps appearing when language models need to invent a researcher. Her name also shows up on Zenodo deposits with backdated timestamps, text lifted from other authors, and real DOI identifiers.
August 31, 20263 min read - LITM
Bill Gates floats reserving up to 40% of jobs for human beings
In the essay published on August 26 and in interviews released the same day, Bill Gates proposed a category of "Human Reserved" activities: tasks that a society might decide to leave to people even when AI and robots were capable of performing them. Automation thus enters industrial policy and social conflict. Cost and performance alone are no longer enough to decide.
August 27, 2026 - Sguardi
Dolly Parton and the lost luxury of a shareable celebrity
Federal flags at half-staff until sunset on September 1, 2026, and tributes pouring in from politicians, musicians, and actresses signal the rarity of a figure capable of holding together rural roots, faith, enterprise, philanthropy, and female autonomy without being seized by any single tribe.
August 26, 2026 - Contesto
How Bumble changed the rule that had made it Bumble
From August 11, anyone can send the first message on Bumble. The company justifies the decision with conversation metrics, without publishing its effect on retention and subscriptions. The rule that defined the brand has become a product variable
August 26, 2026 - LITM
Leopold Aschenbrenner had written that the decade belonged to AI. Then he lost 67%
The SEC sent a subpoena to Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, requesting the timing of trades by Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund and communications about the money the banks were lending it. The fund has not been accused of anything.
August 25, 2026 - Dispacci
To understand Avengers you need to watch 42 hours of Marvel films and series
The platform has assembled fourteen films and both seasons of Loki into a preparation playlist for the new Avengers. The selection opens with the Fox X-Men and leaves out several passages that seemed indispensable.
August 25, 2026 - Dispacci
He crossed 94 countries on a 2004 Kawasaki that spent two days on the ocean floor
Toni Moles calls the sportbike he bought at 19 Débora. Fitted with knobby tyres, luggage and a spare fuel can, he rode it from Africa to the Darién — and back on the road again after a shipwreck.
August 24, 2026 - Sguardi
A certification to show off
Dajana Gioffrè, a visually impaired activist for the rights of people with disabilities and advocacy manager at Accessiway, a company working on digital accessibility, discusses the topic of disability with us on the occasion of Disability Pride Month
August 21, 20265 min read - Contesto
China's worst film became a hit because everyone was recommending it as a joke
Niu Lai, a rudimentary animated film released on 5 August, had grossed seven thousand yuan in ten days, with screenings in front of about ten people. On 17 August it made 8.2 million in a single day.
August 19, 2026 - LITM
ChatGPT can remember clicks and keystrokes in authorised apps on Mac
Computer History logs interaction events to build a memory of your work. The events pass through OpenAI's servers; what stays on the Mac are text files that concentrate information previously scattered across different applications.
August 18, 2026 - Sguardi
The Jason Arday case, or how much it costs to verify too late
The biography of the professor who didn't speak as a child was bought by everyone and checked only once checking it had become free.
August 18, 20265 min read - Imperi
Imperi
For centuries, conquering the world took an army. Today all you need is a platform, a surname, a desirable body, or an internet connection.
August 15, 2026 - Imperi
My master is coming
I built a newspaper with AI. Now I spend my nights fixing distorted images, broken links and invented court rulings, while paying subscriptions to teach the machines the work I paid them to do.
August 15, 2026 - Dispacci
The curator of this museum is eleven years old
Anderson Taylor opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum, in Illinois, when he was nine. Guinness World Records recognised him as the world's youngest museum curator.
August 15, 2026 - Contesto
Dressing to be invisible to AI
Makeup, prints and transparent masks designed so that a facial recognition system cannot extract the geometry of a face. They are not meant to hide you: they are meant to keep you visible to people and unreadable to machines. And they work for as long as few people wear them.
August 14, 20264 min read - Contesto
Sam Altman on Grindr wasn't an AI story
For a few hours we believed Sam Altman was on Grindr. Let's talk about it.
August 13, 2026 - Dispacci
To stand out online, we become more negative
An analysis of over two billion Reddit comments suggests that social media negativity doesn't come down to algorithms alone. Sometimes being critical is simply the easiest way to say something that hasn't already been said.
August 13, 2026 - Dispacci
Europe removes 'forever chemicals' from pizza boxes
New European packaging rules came into force on 12 August. Among the changes: limits on PFAS in food-contact containers
August 13, 2026 - Dispacci
Winning Eurovision won't be enough to host it the following year
If a country involved in an armed conflict wins the contest, the EBU will be able to prevent it from hosting the following year. The measure is aimed above all at the case of Israel, but also applies to Ukraine.
August 12, 2026 - Dispacci
Trump's Press Secretary to Leave the White House Before the Midterm Elections
Donald Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, 28, will leave her role at the end of August. She will remain an outside adviser to the president; no successor has been named yet.
August 12, 2026 - Contesto
How Google Is Turning the Internet into a Place We No Longer Need to Visit
For thirty years, search engines told us where to go. With artificial intelligence, they're learning to give us directly what we were looking for. The problem is what happens to the Internet when we no longer need to click.
August 12, 2026 - Dispacci
The UK couldn't afford its own fossils
One of the most significant collections of British Jurassic fossils has been acquired by the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi after UK museums walked away for lack of funds
August 12, 2026 - Dispacci
The square that was supposed to protect Europe from the heat has become a frying pan
Place Schuman, in front of the European institutions, was meant to become a green, shaded agora. The project was scaled back, and today it is mostly a vast expanse of stone
August 12, 2026 - Dispacci
A total solar eclipse returns to Europe for the first time in over twenty years
On 12 August, the Moon will completely block the Sun across Spain, Iceland, and Greenland. Across much of northern Italy, coverage will exceed 90%.
August 11, 2026 - Letture
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Worth reading for the first half, not the conclusion: the chapter on how a model is built is the best piece of popular science writing on the subject right now, the final proposal doesn't say who stops whom.
August 11, 2026 - Allucinazione
The idea of having time
I live, like everyone, in the terrible hallucination that time is infinite.
August 9, 2026 - LITM
AI isn't going rogue. The problem is we can't predict it
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Wired and Harvard are all talking about "rogue" models capable of escaping sandboxes and hacking companies. The headlines exaggerate. But beneath the sensationalism lies a problem experts consider real.
August 6, 2026 - Dispacci
Women are paying for a facial scan to find out which cosmetic procedures to get
Facial analysis services measure eyes, nose, chin, and symmetry, then turn every deviation from presumed harmony into a treatment, a procedure, or a product to buy.
August 6, 2026
