“…Thorny debates around the limits of satire and religious tolerance have reasserted themselves in a context of bitter political polarization and ever-rising xenophobia and Islamophobia—going so far as to challenge the meaning of the ‘Je Suis Charlie’ slogan itself. Nor has the story of the massacre itself ended, with questions around how it ought to be memorialized yet to be fully resolved.”

“The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings. That is a more subtle problem, but also a more pernicious one.”

“During his time live on the air, Bad Bunny reported current events straight to camera without breaking character, stacked his little papers on the news desk, made an attempt at explaining the weather, and took a shot of Pitorro de Coco (also the name of a song off the album) with the rest of the anchor team.”

“Meta today explained how it would make changes to political content in users’ feeds, saying that it would take a ‘more personalized approach’ going forward. For starters, it would take ‘civic content’ from people and Pages you follow on Facebook and treat it more like any other content in your feed — meaning ranking it and displaying based on both explicit and implicit signals, like how many users liked a post or viewed it.”

“In 2023, people in the UK and Ireland spent more on history books than at any point since Nielsen BookData’s records began in 1998. Ancient history sales rose 67% from 2013 to 2023, while books focusing on ‘specific subjects’ — individual stories of lives, events or movements — climbed 70% over the same period.”

“Meta AI has an ‘Imagine Yourself’ feature in which you upload several selfies and take photos of yourself from different angles. You can then ask the AI to do things like ‘imagine me as an astronaut.’ Once this feature is enabled, Meta’s AI will in some cases begin to automatically generate images of you in random scenarios that it thinks are aligned with your interests.”

“It’s hard to accept ‘it’s in beta’ as an excuse when the features have shipped in non-beta software releases that are heavily marketed to the public as selling points of Apple’s latest hardware. Adding a warning label also does not change the fact that Apple has released a feature that at its core consumes information and replaces it with misinformation at a troubling rate.”

“Getty Images is the bigger company of the two, and its shareholders will own approximately 54.7% of the new entity, while Shutterstock shareholders will own 45.3%. Getty Images also owns the iStock and Unsplash brands. The company will simply be called Getty Images.”

“A software update in the coming weeks will further clarify when the text being displayed is summarization provided by Apple Intelligence. We encourage users to report a concern if they view an unexpected notification summary.”