#ToddlerSkincare: the ‘dark and exploitative’ world of children’s beauty videos on TikTok Skincare videos are featuring children as young as two, Guardian analysis finds, prompting fears about the industry’s reach and lack of safeguards

Four hundred TikTok videos out of 7,600 skincare-related posts analysed by the Guardian featured routines or advice presented by children believed to be under 13

Buying a collectible? Beware fakers out to persuade you it’s the real deal From high-end antiques to Dinky Toys and Star Wars, fraudsters have ways to make you believe it’s genuine. Here’s how to avoid being tricked

Fraud involving antiques and collectibles have a long history, but I’ve been fascinated by how the internet has supercharged the reach of potential scams

A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank The Taybeh community has survived crusaders and the Ottoman and British empires, but the latest attacks leave its future in question

A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank

US Deploys Bulk of Stealthy Long-Range Missile for Iran War The next steps in the US military campaign against Iran will commit nearly its entire inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles, drawing them from stockpiles devoted to other regions.

After appearing to suggest that the war was winding down earlier this week, the US has redeployed the majority of its stealthy long-range missiles for the Iran war (🎁)

Impulse Space, Anduril Building Space Technology for Golden Dome Satellite startup Impulse Space is working with Anduril Industries Inc to develop space-based interceptor technology for President Donald Trump’s planned Golden Dome missile defense shield, according ...

Donald Trump has long spoken about his desire for a US version of Israel's golden dome, but there have been very few signs of it actually being real...until now (🎁)

I'm seeing a lot of these fake Donald Trump truths being posted on BlueSky (and lesser sites) at the moment. Its pretty easy to check, and you owe it to yourself and other people before sharing it.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions

The FT also previously reported that the Kremlin has backed a campaign by the Social Design Agency to bolster Orban’s chances.

The campaign described by the FT depicted Orban as the only candidate who could protect Hungry’s sovereignty

Orban’s Election Campaign Turns to Russia for Help in Final Stretch A surpise guest appeared at a recent campaign rally for Viktor Orban’s party in eastern Hungary: a Ukrainian prisoner of war freed from Moscow’s captivity.

Russia is widely seen to be backing Victor Orban’s reelection efforts, with videos of ethnic Hungarian prisoners of war, with videos of ethnic Hungarian prisoners (🎁)

Via @thomas.escritt.eu

Anthropic Vows Legal Fight Against Pentagon Sanction in AI Feud Anthropic PBC vowed to legally contest a Pentagon decision to declare the company a threat to the US supply chain under an authority normally reserved for foreign adversaries, escalating a showdown wi...

Anthropic is challenging the Pentagon's decision to declare it a threat to the US supply chain in court. “We do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court,” Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said in a blog post on Thursday

My story doesn't get into all of the other things that I saw at the Pokemon event today, but the screenshot below gives a good idea of the other news

New Pokemon Titles Wind and Waves Mark 30 Years for Nintendo’s Hit Franchise One of the longest-running franchises in video gaming is once again hoping to catch them all.

The Pokemon Company confirmed the long rumoured existence of their next mainline games today.

Pokemon Winds and Waves will be released simultaneously in 2027 for the Switch 2 and - as the leaks previously suggested - be set in a tropical world with what looked like underwater environments

Who should I be following in the TCG/TTRPG space on Bluesky? I’m particularly interested in D&D, Magic and Pokemon, but I’ll take any and all recommendations…

How Prediction Markets Polymarket and Kalshi Are Gamifying Truth Two companies are pioneering a new way of predicting the future. Critics call it unregulated gambling

Both Polymarket and Kalshi pitch themselves as sources of truth in a time of epistemic uncertainty, but detractors say they are just glorified forms of gambling

My most recent session of arena got a bit out of hand #MTG #magicthegathering

Meta stole Sarah Wynn-Williams’s voice. It couldn’t stop her exposé The author was gagged by the firm after her book, Careless People, alleged sex harassment and censorship. Its actions prove her point, says her publisher

“Despite her residing in the UK, the terms of the order are so broad that they extend to the privacy of her own home, even when speaking to her own family.”

Sarah Wynn-Williams’s publisher reflects on Meta’s ongoing attempts to silence the author

A “Who’s Who” of Global Far Right Extremists Gathered to Share Plans for Whites-Only Communities White supremacists from the U.S., Europe, South Africa, and Australia gathered in February to openly strategize about building whites-only communities and deporting millions. Hosted by Arkansas-based ...

White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand recruitment, and advance mass “remigration.” Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi leaders invoking the “Great Replacement” and coordinating across borders.

OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s account for ‘furtherance of violent activities’

OpenAI considered referring the 18-year-old behind one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history to the RCMP but ultimately determined that their activity did meet the threshold for alerting law enforcement

Wikipedia Founder Sees No Threat From Musk’s Grokipedia The founder of Wikipedia said he isn’t worried about the threat posed to the free online encyclopedia from AI-generated content, including from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, because of how error-prone the i...

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales called Elon Musk’s Grokipedia a “cartoon imitation of an encyclopaedia” during an interview on the sidelines of India’s AI summit

Marco Rubio Is Rebooting the Neocons for the MAGA Era The secretary of state has become one of Trump’s most powerful advisers, crafting a foreign policy that both America First nationalists and neoconservatives can claim.

Marco Rubio’s appointment as Trump’s Secretary of State was greeted with skepticism by many in the MAGA movement, but the long time Neocon has emerged as one of Trump’s most powerful advisers

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.

For the first time, the EU is attempting to mitigate social media addiction. Excellent article from Politico👇

"Brussels has told the company to change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems."

The disparity between Europe, the US and Russia is illustrated by a *series of* terrifying graphics that accompany the story.

France and the UK have about 400 deployed warheads between them compared with America’s 1,670

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Europe Rethinks Nuclear Weapons After US Delivers Reality Check For the first time since the end of the Cold War, European capitals are discussing how to develop their own deterrent.

European capitals are once again talking about developing their own nuclear weapons.

The region has long depended on the US for its deterrent, but it is now facing the prospect being left alone with Russia’s nuclear arsenal

Interesting contrast in coverage: a misleading, vested-interest report suggesting heat pumps raise UK bills made headlines.

Our peer-reviewed UK research showing high real-world efficiency across hundreds of homes was largely ignored by the media.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...