A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"
www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
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Legacy Update
Jason Koebler
Carole Cadwalladr
"321 postgraduate programmes within the field of social sciences were closed for the 2026-27 cycle."
#UKHE #AcademicSky
Mark Rubin
www.timeshighereducation.com
More than 300 social sciences programmes lost in past year, figures show, as critics bemoan decisions made on enrolment numbers alone
