Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Floundering. Can It Still Help Younger Kids?
Six months in, many teens are already back on platforms they were supposed to be blocked from. The ban’s benefits may fall to the next generation. ⌘ Read more
Canada Moves to Ban Social Media Use for Youth Under 16
The country’s previous attempt to get tech companies to shelter young users failed amid heavy criticism from civil liberty groups. ⌘ Read more
Canada Moves to Ban Social Media Use for Youth Under 16
The country’s previous attempt to get tech companies to shelter young users failed amid heavy criticism from civil liberty groups. ⌘ Read more
Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Floundering. Can It Still Help Younger Kids?
Six months in, many teens are already back on platforms they were supposed to be blocked from. The ban’s benefits may fall to the next generation. ⌘ Read more
‘Busting out the dance moves’: Katter the life of the party in Melbourne
The member for Kennedy in Queensland was spotted in Melbourne – and dancing on social media – and naturally, we were curious. ⌘ Read more
Drinking Water Facilities Hit by Strikes in Iran, State Media Reports
Two water tanks serving thousands of people were damaged, the local authorities said. The U.S. military declined to comment. ⌘ Read more
Drinking Water Facilities Hit by Strikes in Iran, State Media Reports
Two water tanks serving thousands of people were damaged, the local authorities said. The U.S. military declined to comment. ⌘ Read more
Drinking Water Facilities Hit by Strikes in Iran, State Media Reports
Two water tanks serving thousands of people were damaged, the local authorities said. The U.S. military did not respond to a request for comment. ⌘ Read more
Drinking Water Facilities Hit by Strikes in Iran, State Media Reports
The state broadcaster said two water tanks serving thousands of people were damaged. The U.S. military did not respond to a request for comment. ⌘ Read more
Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
Article URL: https://media.mercedes-benz.com/en/article/bebac2af-acdc-465a-9538-adb0bf3d8ccf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472877
Points: 5
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Was Australia’s teen social media ban effective?
It’s been six months since Australia’s teen social media ban came into effect, but is it working? ⌘ Read more
Polymarket and Kalshi Say Influencer Partners Can’t Deny Election Results, Actually
Social media posts questioning the integrity of LA’s mayoral election were labeled “paid partnerships.” Then Kalshi and Polymarket told creators to delete them. ⌘ Read more
Exclusive: Aussie teens react to new social media ban
Australia’s landmark social media ban for under-16s came into effect this morning, but young Aussies say it’s already failing. ⌘ Read more
Hanson hosts barbecue for Ben Roberts-Smith supporters, questions his superiors
Against the backdrop of her party’s surging popularity, the One Nation leader threw her support behind the accused war criminal a local park in Brisbane’s south-west and also criticised media coverage of his arrest. ⌘ Read more
‘I knew the beating was coming’: When the Murdoch media went to war over Ben Roberts-Smith
In their new book, Getting Murdoched, Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson interview people News Corp has targeted, including journalist Chris Masters. In this exclusive extract, Masters shares his experience of News Corp’s campaign of support for Roberts-Smith. ⌘ Read more
eSafety commissioner admits hesitancy about social media ban
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has admitted she was “not really keen” on the government’s under-16s social media ban. ⌘ Read more
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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News of our demise has been greatly overstated. Here’s the proof
In a fast-changing media landscape, some things remain the same. The Age is still speaking truth to power and, importantly, decision-makers are still listening. ⌘ Read more
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
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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Push to include AI chatbots in Australia’s under-16 social media ban
Cyber experts concerned about unregulated AI chatbots linked to a series of mass tragedies in the US are pushing for them to be included in Australia’s under-16 social media ban. ⌘ 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
Man who sent card to Norwegian princess in custody after clashing with media
David James Cooke, 63, was on Wednesday banned from contacting Ingrid Alexandra or entering the University of Sydney – where she lives and studies – for two years. ⌘ 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
Antony Catalano allowed to travel to see wife in Byron Bay on bail
Disgraced media mogul Antony Catalano has been given the green light to travel interstate to see his wife in Byron Bay. ⌘ Read more
Senator accused of trying to turn moment into social media post
Labor Minister Tim Ayres has accused Independent Senator David Pocock of trying to turn a moment in a Senate estimates hearing into a social media post. ⌘ Read more
Antony Catalano’s bail varied so he can travel to the wife he’s accused of bashing
Defence lawyer Tony Hargreaves asked that the media mogul now be permitted to go to Byron Bay to see his family after limitations were placed on his interstate travel at a bail hearing earlier this year. ⌘ Read more
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Upvoted, @movq! See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331329
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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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Ebola and hantavirus see record-breaking spread of conspiracy theories
Conspiracies concerning the recent outbreaks have been spreading like wildfire due to a combination of AI and social media. Before the pandemic, consp… ⌘ 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
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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Second attempt, at mixing a couple of previous designs together and I think this one came out pretty cute looking.
uiii ui só chove
Hoje às 14 na Casa Capitão, vou estar no debate “OPEN SOURCE E PRODUÇÃO CULTURAL - O design como prática disruptiva”, que é parte do programa do festival MIL Cultura e Política. Até já!
https://www.millisboa.com/evento/open-source-e-producao-cultural-o-design-como-pratica-disruptiva
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@arne (Mixing lovely fruit with bitter things like olives or cheese is something that only Germans do, right? 😅)
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I just say “Pflaumenaugust”: A matjes herring fillet on a bed of plum jam in a warm baguette roll with crispy onions and fresh apple slices.
Am Wochenende war wieder einmal ESC (der 70., um genau zu sein) und es gab selbstverständlich den Klassiker: Wurst-Käse-Igel.
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
Trump Media Scales Back Plans for Its Own Prediction Market
Truth Predict was supposed to be the Trump family’s biggest leap yet into prediction markets. Now it’s looking more like a tiptoe. ⌘ Read more
The Creators of ‘Hacks’ Really, Really, Really Hate AI
Ahead of the hit show’s finale, cocreators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello talk about media consolidation, the perils of censorship, and why they find AI “deeply disturbing.” ⌘ Read more
A @aiscarvalho e eu andamos a dar os últimos retoques ao nosso novo projeto: uma garfada de internet, a newsletter para gente ocupada que lida com crianças, ecrãs e crianças com ecrãs.
Andamos há mais de meio ano a preparar esta iniciativa e a primeira edição sai na próxima 5ª, 14 de maio.
Entretanto, assina já e aproveita para ler o número zero, em http://garfada.pt
Diz-nos se encontrares algo que não esteja no sítio, e passa o link a gente amiga que se possa interessar!
On the weekend just gone we also visited Twin Falls, which was absolutely magnificent! 
Natural Bridge 
The smallest sitting canine drawn so far, yet more detailed, than some of the previous ones.
Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
The judge also warned Musk and Sam Altman to curb their “propensity to use social media to make things worse outside the courtroom” after both sides traded attacks online. ⌘ Read more
Então pelos vistos existe uma série de canais youtube com conteúdo slop automático onde a voz de IA volta e meia dá-lhe o piripaque e começa com estas síncopes hilariantes
(roubado do passaralho azul)
‘STAGED’: Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere Following White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting
The word “staged” exploded on social media following the attack, as both right and left-wing influencers and anonymous accounts spread unfounded conspiracy theories. ⌘ Read more
495 turns and about ~4hrs alter I won! 🙌 Small map, 2-players, myself and an AI player. 😅 
– It took forever to beach the island the AI player was on and get enough Galley’s and Swordsmen just to push back and eventually slowly destroy all enemy units and capture all cities! 🤣
California Engineer Identified in Suspected Shooting at White House Correspondents Dinner
The 31-year-old engineer and self-described indie game developer is suspected of firing shots at the annual event attended by President Donald Trump, high-profile media figures, and US government officials. ⌘ Read more
Isto é divertido: as minúsculas são motivos específicos, as maiúsculas são versões mais largas dos motivos das minúsculas, e os números são colunas de 1pixel que combinadas permitem desenhar padrões versáteis
O repositório está aqui e a fonte pronta a usar pode ser sacada aqui
v0.1 desenhada, com letras e números. É especial conseguir desenhar um tipo de letra apenas com o teclado e um editor de texto
Hoje é dia de workshops na #libregraphicsmeeting , e quando dás por ti estás a fazer fontes bitmap usando ascii art e a imprimi-las numa Epson matricial da velha guarda
(o software pra fazer isto é o Phosphor)
As an enjoyer of delightfully bad graphic design, found on most Czech village center cork boards, I’m sad to see the stolen clipart and badly cropped watermarked stock images, gradually replaced with AI slop.
This is far from a serious rant, but generating images of my kind being telepathically hit with sharp rocks, surely gives me a right to complain.
So far these seem the most prominent slop categories, seem to be…
Architecture slop:
- find a sketch of what an old building looked like
- generate an AI version, without correcting any of the perspective errors - this one is diagonally levitating
- generate a recreation of the buildings demise - after going through the AI, for the second time, it is now a completely different building
Moralizing slop:
History slop:
Kacey Musgraves films ‘crazy’ UFOs over Arkansas and Tennessee
The American singer-songwriter had a close encounter with something in the sky recently while flying to Nashville. Writing on social media about her e… ⌘ Read more
Drew one in the old Pokémon battle angle and resolution.
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Just a couple of shots from our trip to Bald Rock—finally got reception so I can share them!
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! Hers a few more! 
Just a couple of shots from our trip to Bald Rock—finally got reception so I can share them!
virar na via de quê
Ontem à noite o céu esteve especial, e finalmente tenho uma câmara capaz de registar minimamente cenários nocturnos
This one comes from this years (now scrapped) April 1st DLSS 5 gag, that was originally supposed to use Microsofts AI - in ways similar to the Nvidia technology, which produced interesting, overly detailed results. I wanted to see if I could beat the AI thing at drawing something like that myself and many redraws later, this is my best result.
In the interest of fairness and hopefully for the last time, I ever have to address this, Google has flip-flopped again and promised “sideloading” will not be removed from their version of Android, but instead have to be enabled in the developer settings, using the following “advanced flow”:
To be perfectly clear, this still falls short of what I wanted, but at this point, it is a compromise I’m willing to take, over further pursuing this, through the various available European courts, myself.
Here is their full statement:
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
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Back to the regular scheduled dogpostin and back to something very low resolution.
Media
Also new stuff on my website, won't list it all here, you'll just have to check.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org sounds like a plan, it’d be the second biggest version, in Australia.
Number one is on the rplace.live map canvas, where the previous one is in America and the one from today here - no reason other than the fact those countries had a good empty spot, to put them in, at the time I drew them.
Our first test over night trip 🤞
Back to the regular scheduled dogpostin and back to something very low resolution.
Also new stuff on my website, won’t list it all here, you’ll just have to check.
@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I would like to see that. 😘
@kiwu@twtxt.net after you upload, make sure the audio file looks like this:
And it will work.
Testing…
today’s mood
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org hahhaha! Succulent, as in this type of plant. Certainly not looking to eat them, for sure! 😅
So, this happened this morning:
We got at our new van!!! 🥳 
As semelhanças entre esta recente campanha do PCP e o branding da Anthropic são assinaláveis
via @ranoya@ranoya
porque é que te estás a rir tanto deste vídeo? hum?
‘Aliens are real but I haven’t seen them’, Obama says, then backtracks
Former US President Obama recently made a comment about aliens that whipped social media users into a frenzy. Speaking recently on a podcast with host… ⌘ Read more
Moon Davé doesn’t mention #py5 directly but very briefly shows something done with #Processing + #py5 cc @py5coding@py5coding
#Processing: #CreativeCoding and the Future of Education (at #fossdem26)
#Processing: #CreativeCoding and the Future of Education (at #fosdem26)
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@lyse I just watched this. And whilst it's very good and insightful, good history of MySQL and how Martin helped built a good solid Open Source + Commercial model, I'm not seeing the "why people don’t wanna work at your company" bit? What am I missing? 🤔 In any case, he does talk to great length on the importance of Culture and the insane notion of "centrlaised office working", which I 100% agree with.
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@prologic@twtxt.net he didn’t. The embedded video show the speaker he was referencing to, on the German video.
Bit of a remake, of a chubby-looking, quick meme doodle, from 5 years ago.
Este fim de semana, no Planetário do Porto, está a haver o AstroGeoFest, um encontro sobre pedras e minerais que não esperava ser tão entusiasmante. Bela forma de aproveitar o dia de sol!
A mate just recommended this German talk why people don’t wanna work at your company: https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3321-es_es_ka_em_warum_gute_leute_nicht_bei_euch_arbeiten_wollen It’s really good. I fully agree with most parts.
The speaker referenced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmEgtRhw7o (Mårten Mickos: Believe in Something Bigger Than Yourself) which is also very interesting, if you make it through the first bit. He talks about his CEO role at MySQL AB.
Rare ‘snownado’ snow devil captured on camera in Colorado
Footage of the unusual phenomenon was recently uploaded onto social media by local resident Mandy Campbell. Colorado residents were left reeling last … ⌘ Read more
Well it’s ~2am and I finally defeated the AI player in a game of Frontier Crown 👑 
– On that note I’m now going to bed, I’ve made so many improvements to the aesthetics (UX) of the game, the mechanics, and it’s now quite nicely playable 👌 G’night! 😴
Baixamos uns dados do GeoSampa e experimentamos um pouco com #OSMnx e #GeoPandas + #Folium