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CBS News Radio is shutting down. CBS announced last week that CBS News Radio will be shutting down this spring after nearly 100 years of broadcasting. The company cited "challenging economic realities" and a shift in radio programming strategies as reasons behind the decision.

The New York Times (archive link):
"(CBS) transported Americans onto the rooftops of London in the Blitz and into the bleak embers of concentration camps in liberated Nazi Germany, an aural atlas to world events thousands of miles away. In more recent years, it transmitted eyewitness dispatches from world capitals to hundreds of local stations in rural and sparsely populated parts of the country. CBS News Radio was a pioneer and stalwart of the mass media century, the proving ground of star journalists like Edward R. Murrow, with a distinctive five-tone chime that became synonymous with breaking news — long before the rise of 24-hour cable and the internet."

New Mexico Department of Justice Wins Landmark Verdict Against Meta

With this verdict, New Mexico becomes the first state in the nation to prevail at trial against a major tech company for harming young people. The jury ordered Meta to pay the maximum penalty under the law of $5,000 per violation, totaling $375 million in civil penalties for violating New Mexico's consumer protection laws.

The Register

Biting the hand that feeds IT — Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers

Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase?

Opinion  NASA's Ignition presentation was heavy on space hardware, but light on details. Not least of which was how astronauts are supposed to get from Earth to its moonbase and back.…

GroenLinks-PvdA en FNV willen maximumprijs aan de pomp, zoals in België. Belgische pomphouders willen er vanaf

In aanloop naar het debat in de Tweede Kamer over compensatiemaatregelen voor de hoge energieprijzen heeft vakbond FNV vanochtend invoering geopperd van maximumprijzen voor…

Hoe je vanuit een schuddend en trillend vliegtuig een lichtpuntje richt op een verre satelliet

Wetenschappers van TNO zijn erin geslaagd vanuit een vliegtuig een stabiele laserverbinding met een satelliet in de ruimte te maken. „Het is als glasvezel, maar dan zonder vezel.”

Franse justitie onderzoekt oud-directeur van Frontex Leggeri om illegale pushbacks van migranten

Voormalig Frontex-directeur Fabrice Leggeri wordt beschuldigd van medeplichtigheid aan misdaden tegen de menselijkheid wegens het illegaal terugsturen van migranten. Justitie in Frankrijk onderzoekt de zaak tegen Leggeri, die inmiddels Europarlementariër voor het radicaal-rechtse RN is.

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Mormon Wives star being investigated for third domestic violence allegation

Latest allegation against Taylor Frankie Paul comes days after ABC pulled her upcoming season of the Bachelorette

Authorities in Utah are reportedly investigating allegations of a third domestic violence incident involving The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives reality stars Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen.

A spokesperson for the West Jordan police department told NBC News that Mortensen contacted the department last month with allegations of domestic violence against Paul stemming from a 2024 incident. Mortensen told them that he was directed to their department by Draper police due to the jurisdiction of the 2024 incident.

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Struggling to cope with the relentless and bleak news cycle? Go to bed early | Jodie Wilson

When we can’t control what’s happening in the world, there is some solace in the predictability of a comforting routine and the safe landing of a warm bed

An early bedtime is my number one prescription when things go awry. It’s a reliable comfort through all life seasons, especially when uncertainty is rife and sleep is disturbed.

I’m not ashamed to admit that I spend a considerable amount of time each day thinking about how nice it would be to get into bed. We’ve just passed the autumn equinox which means we’ll light the first fire soon and “hottie season” will officially commence. Yes, my partner of 20 years is handsome but it’s the hot-water bottle that gets preference when the temperature drops, the world threatens to implode and extra cosiness is required.

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Lily James, Andy Murray and a million Britons: padel’s rise nears milestone

  • UK participation levels more than doubled in 2025

  • 860,000 Britons played padel at least once last year

It was once seen as a quirky upstart or continental fad. But padel now has nearly a million players across the UK after participation levels more than doubled in 2025.

According to LTA figures seen by the Guardian, 860,000 Britons played padel at least once last year – up from 400,000 in 2024 and 129,000 in 2023 – as the racket sport’s dizzying rise continued.

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Arundhati Roy and Lyse Doucet lead ‘exceptional’ Women’s prize for nonfiction shortlist

Roy’s memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me and Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul are joined by books on exile by Ece Temelkuran and Judith Mackrell and an ode to the arts by Daisy Fancourt

Arundhati Roy, Lyse Doucet and Judith Mackrell are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction.

Jane Rogoyska, Ece Temelkuran and Daisy Fancourt are also in contention for the £30,000 prize, launched in 2024 to address the persistent gender imbalance in UK nonfiction prize winners.

To browse all books in the 2026 Women’s prize for nonfiction shortlist, visit guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply.

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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: there may be 50 shades, but there’s only one Correct Grey

The true quality of a fabric is revealed by a neutral tone – one that beautifully offsets the brighter tones of 2026. Just don’t mention John Major

Sometimes a colour name is a whole mood. Rouge Noir: the stamp of cult 1990s glamour. Millennial pink: the colour of overthinking and oversharing. Elephant’s Breath by Farrow & Ball: the imperial age of the gastro pub.

I have a new favourite. Pairs is a lovely little Scottish brand which makes great quality socks at good prices. There are many cute names – Frosting Pink, Milky Tea Beige – but the one I just had to click on was Correct Grey, “a warm grey with nods to a classic British school sock”, according to the website.

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Israel using white phosphorus to scorch earth in south Lebanon, researcher says

Human Rights Watch and others say they have documented use of weapon in civilian areas, which some argue is illegal

When the M825-series 155mm artillery projectile airbursts, expelling its felt wedges containing white phosphorus, it leaves a distinctive knuckle-shaped plume. That is how Human Rights Watch (HRW) researchers said they were able to verify that Israel was again using the notorious weapon over south Lebanon, reigniting accusations that it is breaking the laws of war.

The New York-based rights group said it had verified and geolocated eight images showing airburst white phosphorus munitions exploding over residential areas in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor in the opening days of Israel’s assault during the war on Gaza.

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Legerchefs dertigtal landen overleggen over 'Hormuz-coalitie'

De hoogste militair van Nederland en die van een dertigtal vooral Europese landen gaan overleggen over het breken van de Iraanse blokkade van de Straat van Hormuz. Ze komen later deze week bijeen in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, dat het voortouw wil nemen in de nieuwe 'Hormuz-coalitie'.

Nederland en andere bondgenoten van de VS bewaarden aanvankelijk afstand van de Amerikaans-Israëlische oorlog met Iran, maar komen nu meer in beweging. Ze voelen de gevolgen van de blokkade, met hogere brandstof- en kunstmestprijzen en mogelijk zelfs tekorten. Bovendien eist de boze Amerikaanse president Donald Trump hun assistentie bij het weer op gang brengen van de scheepvaart door de zeestraat.

Toen grote Europese landen en Japan donderdag verklaarden te willen helpen met "passende" maatregelen, was Nederland daar meteen bij. Commandant der Strijdkrachten Onno Eichelsheim hield zondag al een videovergadering met deze collega's. Inmiddels telt de coalitie in wording een dertigtal landen.


1000 euro per dag. Binnen in de tech-afkickkliniek: als scrollen voelt als heroïne

In een kliniek waar je wordt behandeld voor techverslaving, gaat het niet om je wifi-wachtwoord, maar om afkicken alsof het om alcohol of heroïne gaat

Een grijze, splitlevel villa tussen de naaldbossen bij Seattle. Binnen geen smartphones, geen gameconsoles, geen VR-brillen – alleen een groep twintigers die ontwenningsverschijnselen hebben omdat hun telefoon is afgepakt. In de reSTART-kliniek wordt techverslaving behandeld als een gedragsverslaving op het niveau van alcohol- of drugsgebruik, met wekenlang totaalverbod op internet, social media en games

De cliënten zijn niet de cliché tieners met “iets te veel schermtijd”, maar jongeren en jongvolwassenen die zijn uitgevallen op school, nauwelijks nog douchen en sociale contacten hebben ingeruild voor VR-werelden, Discord-servers en AI-chatbots. Een verblijf kost zo’n 1.000 dollar per dag en duurt gemiddeld 12 tot 16 weken, inclusief 24 tot 30 uur therapie per week, van groepstherapie tot lichaamsgerichte oefeningen.

Wat hier gebeurt, raakt aan een breder debat: is “techverslaving” een modewoord, of een reële aandoening? Techbedrijven benadrukken dat er geen hard causaal bewijs is en spreken liever van problematisch gebruik. Tegelijk erkent de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie sinds 2019 “gaming disorder” als officiële diagnose: een patroon van gamen waarbij controleverlies, prioriteit boven alles en doorgaan ondanks schade centraal staan.

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Neurowetenschappers wijzen erop dat sociale media, games en eindeloze scroll-feeds het beloningssysteem in de hersenen prikkelen met dopaminepieken die lijken op die bij middelenverslaving. Het verschil: van alcohol kun je volledig afblijven, van technologie niet. De oprichter van reSTART vergelijkt het daarom eerder met een eetstoornis: je moet leren doseren in een wereld waar het “verslavende middel” overal is.

Voor ouders en beleidsmakers wordt de vraag urgent. In de VS lopen rechtszaken tegen Meta, YouTube en andere platforms wegens “addictief ontwerp” – oneindig scrollen, autoplay, notificaties – die jongeren naar 16 uur schermtijd per dag zouden hebben geduwd, met depressie en zelfbeschadiging tot gevolg. In Europa groeit ondertussen de roep om strengere regels rond algoritmes, dataverzameling en kinderbescherming.

De werkelijkheid in die kliniek in het bos laat zien wat er op het spel staat. Cliënten leren weer slapen zonder blauw licht, een gesprek voeren zonder notificaties, verveling verdragen zonder TikTok. Eén van hen stapt na maanden afkicken over op een “domme” telefoon, en schrikt wanneer zelfs het eindeloos kiezen van een nieuw achtergrondscherm alweer voelt als de eerste trek.

De vraag is dus niet alleen of Big Tech juridisch verantwoordelijk is, maar ook hoeveel schermtijd we zelf nog normaal vinden – tot de intake in zo’n kliniek dichterbij blijkt dan gedacht.


De Speld

Uw vaste prik voor betrouwbaar nieuws.

Kabinet gaat pijplijn van Groningen naar Friesland verleggen om vanaf daar gas op te pompen

​Het kabinet gaat toch naar gas boren in Nederland, niet in Groningen maar in Friesland. Dat maakte minister Van Veldhoven van Klimaat en Groene Groei (D66) zojuist bekend. Dit doen ze door de pijplijn van Groningen naar Friesland te verleggen, zodat er niet meer in Groningen gepompt wordt.

“We gaan de pijplijn verlengen van Groningen naar Friesland, zodat we niet meer in Groningen gas omhoog pompen”, zegt Van Veldhoven. “We hopen dat inwoners uit Groningen nu niet meer boos worden en we ze ook niet hoeven te compenseren.”

Van Veldhoven denkt dat dit de ideale oplossing is. “Daarnaast denk ik dat de Friezen nog minder gewend zijn en ook wat meer nuchter erin staan.”

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404 Media

404 Media is an independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.

The People Left Behind by the Metaverse

The People Left Behind by the Metaverse

When Meta announced its plan to shut down Horizon Worlds last week a lot of us laughed

Social scientist Dr Ruth Diaz was not one of them. 

Diaz worked for Meta as a VR community design developer in the early days of the Horizon Worlds project and left in 2022. After Meta’s announcement last week, Diaz wrote a post on LinkedIn attempting to articulate her feelings. “I cannot overstate the scale of institutional betrayal this represents,” she said in her post. “Mark Zuckerberg renamed his company Meta to claim transformation. What he has actually done is strip-mine the trust and labor of every creator who took that promise seriously. That should sit on his record permanently. I feel horror. Rage. Grief. Shame. The specific shame of having believed.”

Diaz said she fell in love with VR after her brother lent her a PC virtual reality setup and she collaborated on art with people spontaneously in a virtual world. “VR puts us into a very disinhibited state where we can open our hearts and try on new identities,” she told 404 Media. “It's an equalizer of identities, some because of the anonymity, but some because we all choose our own skin. That creates an even footing of sorts.”

She said she signed on with Meta after being impressed by an early version of their Horizon Worlds toolkit. After joining the company, she spent some of her time getting employees into headsets and showing them around the virtual worlds people had made. “And many times, I had them in tears by the end because they finally understood what was possible,” she said. “And I don't think any other social app has ever built a tool that had that combination of simplicity and hands on learning how to create.”

In a follow up post on LinkedIn, Diaz shared some of these worlds including the interactive biography of an amputee named Lacey and an Underground Railroad experience from a woman named Bizerka. She pointed out that Alcoholics Anonymous holds meetings in Horizon Worlds and shared a church that meets on Meta’s platform every Sunday.

Diaz’s fears were allayed somewhat on March 18 when Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth backpedaled on shutting Horizon Worlds down completely. During an AMA posted to Instagram, he told fans that the company would keep Horizon Worlds accessible for “the foreseeable future.” But Meta is capricious and it’s impossible to know exactly how far into the future its imagining.

“I don’t have a ton of faith it’ll work, but I think it could, because it’s very unusual for them to flinch,” Diaz told 404 Media. “They usually just kind of hunker down and pretend they don’t see it and go full PR.”

She said that Bosworth’s promise to keep Horizon Worlds running wasn’t a big enough promise.  “The way they have behaved here is profoundly harmful and I would deem it a type of psychological torture from corporate neglect,” she said. “But the horror of this is ongoing, because [Bosworth] came out and said: ‘we’re going to keep it for now,’ that doesn’t reassure anybody, that doesn’t help anybody. That makes people feel foolish for being upset but also completely uncertain about their futures.”

Wagner James Au, author of Making a Metaverse That Matters and the blog New World Notes, told 404 Media that he’s sympathetic. He also noted that building the type of community she did without the support and infrastructure of a company like Meta is difficult. “A common mistake is to assume the Metaverse should be a non-corporate open source project. Those have been tried and they've all failed to gain traction,” he said.

In the end, the social connections Diaz fostered will remain even as the spaces fade. “Metaverse communities are what's important and permanent, not any particular 3D space they're associated with,” James Au said. “User communities create, congregate, and socialize around 3D spaces, but those spaces age over time and lose their luster. What's important is that they helped foster social connections which can be resilient beyond any one platform. It's why so much metaverse activity happens outside the immersive space on Bluesky, Reddit, etc.”

Like Diaz, James Au doesn’t trust the Zuckerberg. “Meta has consistently failed in its responsibilities to users, so I'm not sure it's realistic for Horizon Worlds users to expect anything from it now,” he said.

Meta’s Metaverse was doomed from the start but that doesn’t mean the idea itself is bad or even Meta’s underlying technology. Diaz and others found community there. “Despite the ups and downs and branding and ‘Metaverse is dead’ and whatever, all these twists and turns, the tools [themselves] have incredible merit. And that’s the only message I’ve ever tried to bring, and I’m just heartbroken that it got attached to these companies,” Diaz said.