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‘My social life completely plummeted’

The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms

Opposition deepfake video sparks outrage in Spain ahead of election

IEEE Offers More Services to Cities That Want to Be Smarter

Perceived algorithmic recommendation features and information fatigue among social media users

Cross-cultural modeling of body satisfaction using social media selfies and self-descriptions

Kinky dating app Feeld’s founders share in record £3.8m dividend after sales jump

Social Media Bans Aren’t Enough to Make Children Safe

Even before France approved legislation banning social media for children under 15 last January, 13-year-old Benjamin was already wondering what life without social media would look like.

What makes a political deepfake believable enough to share?

A new study examines how plausibility, media literacy and prior attitudes relate to detection, liking and intentions to share political deepfakes on social media.

Clinical trials look different on Bluesky and X

An exploratory comparison of more than 14,000 public posts found markedly different communication patterns across the two platforms — a reminder that the medium can shape how medical research reaches people.

What age gates can — and cannot — fix about social media

Australia’s under-16 restrictions are reducing account ownership for some young users, but workarounds and privacy trade-offs show why prohibition alone cannot solve the design problem.

The age a model assigns you

When software estimates how fast a brain is ageing, a private process becomes a score. Identity and threat follow the number — not, automatically, the tissue.

The inner voice that is no longer only yours

After enough fluent completions, some people notice a stranger’s cadence in thought. That report is phenomenological. Inner-speech science is older, and it does not yet include this residue as a finding.

What you click becomes what you seem to want

Personalisation is not only convenience. Over time it shapes what feels familiar — often without a reflective decision.